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Mered

Man living at the time of Divided Monarchy

Mered, a son of Ezrah, married Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh.

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Mered was a son of Ezrah from the tribe of Judah (1Ch.4.17). He is mentioned in the genealogy of Judah in the book of Chronicles. Mered had two wives: one was Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, and the other was a Judahite woman (1Ch.4.18). The biblical text lists the children born to Mered and his Judahite wife, including Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah (1Ch.4.17).

Family

Father
Ezrah
Spouses and partners
BithiahJehudijah

Bible dictionary

Mered Easton Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Rebellion, one of the sons of Ezra, of the tribe of Judah (1 Chr. 4:17).

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Mered Smith Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)

(rebellion). This name occurs in a fragmentary genealogy in (1 Chronicles 4:17,18) as that of one of the sons of Ezra. Tradition identifies him with Caleb and Moses.

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Mered Hitchcock Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

rebellious, ruling

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Mered Hastings Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

ME'RED (rebellion), mentioned in the genealogy, 1 Chr 4:17, as a son of Ezra, a descendant of Judah, and husband of Bithiah, a daughter of Pharaoh.

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Mered Schaff Schaff’s Dictionary of the Bible

ME'RED (rebellion), mentioned in the genealogy, 1 Chr 4:17, as a son of Ezra, a descendant of Judah, and husband of Bithiah, a daughter of Pharaoh.

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Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.

Where Mered appears

2 verses in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H4778

1 Chronicles2

Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.