Enciclopedia Cattolica

Jared (Heb. Jeredh, in pausa Jāredh)

IARED (EBR. JEREDH, IN PAUSA JĀREDH)

Volume VI · p. 890 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

IARED (Hebr. Jeredh, in pause Jāredh). — Name of two biblical figures.

1. Antediluvian patriarch, of the lineage of Seth, son of Malaleel and father of Henoch (Gen. 5:15–20; I Par. 1:2; Lc. 3:37).

2. Israelite, one of the descendants of Judah. He was the son of Ezra and founder of Gedor (= today Gedür, cf. Ios. 15:58); I Par. 4:18). The rabbis, by an etymological play, made I. an appellation of Moses (from the root jāradh = to descend), because Moses caused the manna to “descend” from heaven, without considering that the lawgiver belonged to the tribe of Levi.

BIBL.: A. Vaccari, La S. Bibbia, I, Florence 1943, p. 74; III, there 1948, pp. 17–25; L. Marchal, Les Paralipomines (La Ste Bible, ed. L. Pirot, 4), Paris 1949, p. 36. Francesco Spadafora
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“IARED (EBR. JEREDH, IN PAUSA JĀREDH).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 890. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/iared-ebr-jeredh-in-pausa-jaredh.