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# מֶרֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4778

**Mered** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Mered [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4778/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶ֫רֶד²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4778/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. name in Judah according to 1 Ch 4:17, מָ֑רֶד v 18. 𝔊 Πωραδ, Νωρωηλ, A Μωραδ, Μωρηδ, 𝔊L Βαραδ, Μαρω.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Mered (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 4:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.17/#tree)

וּבֶן־עֶזְרָ֔ה יֶ֥תֶר וּמֶ֖רֶד וְעֵ֣פֶר וְיָל֑וֹן וַתַּ֙הַר֙ אֶת־מִרְיָ֣ם וְאֶת־שַׁמַּ֔י וְאֶת־יִשְׁבָּ֖ח אֲבִ֥י אֶשְׁתְּמֹֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* and the.son of.Ezrah \[was\].Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon and she.conceived (et) Miriam and (et) Shammai and (et) Ishbah the.father of.Eshtemoa

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon. And she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa —

[1 Chronicles 4:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.18/#tree)

וְאִשְׁתּ֣וֹ הַיְהֻדִיָּ֗ה יָלְדָ֞ה אֶת־יֶ֨רֶד אֲבִ֤י גְדוֹר֙ וְאֶת־חֶ֙בֶר֙ אֲבִ֣י שׂוֹכ֔וֹ וְאֶת־יְקֽוּתִיאֵ֖ל אֲבִ֣י זָנ֑וֹחַ וְאֵ֗לֶּה בְּנֵי֙ בִּתְיָ֣ה בַת־פַּרְעֹ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר לָקַ֖ח מָֽרֶד׃ס

*Word for word:* and wife his (the) Judean she.bore (et) Jared the.father of.Gedor and (et) Heber the.father of.Socoh and (et) Jekuthiel the.father of.Zanoah and these \[were\].the.sons of.Bithiah the.daughter of.Pharaoh whom he.had.taken Mered

*JPS 1917:* and his wife Hajehudijah bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah — and these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh whom Mered took.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4778.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4778/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).