Jared was one of the long-lived patriarchs before the flood, listed in the genealogy from Adam. He was the father of Enoch, the man who walked with God and was taken up without seeing death.
Familiar and steady, Jared is a name reaching back to the very roots of the human family.
Variants & nicknames
Jarrod, Jered
Jared in the Bible
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: