Ja'red (Heb. Ye'red, in|^, in pause Ya'red, 'T1'^> de- scender; Sept. Tapto, N. T. 'lapso, Joseph us 'Iapto»jf)> the name of two men.
1. The fourth antediluvian patriarch in descent from Seth, son of Mahalaleel and father of Enoch ; born B.C. 3712, died B.C. 2750, aged 962 years; l(i2 years old at the birth of his heir (Gen. v, 15-20 ; 1 Chron. i, 2, " Je- red ;" Luke iii, 37).
2. A son apparently of Ezra, of the trilje of Judah, by his wife Jeliudijah, although in the latter part of the same verse a different parentage is spoken of; he is named as the "father" (i. e. founder) of Gedor (1 Chron. iv, 18, where the name is Anglicized "Jered"). B.C. cir. 1612. The Rabbins, however, give an allegorical interpretation to the passage, and treat this and other names therein as titles of Closes — Jered because he caused the manna to descend.
Jarenton, a celebrated abbot of St. Benigne, at Di-
jon, France, bom at Vienna towards the year 1045, was educated in the monastery at Clugny, After leading for some time a life of dissipation, he retired in 1074 to the Uttle monasterj' of La Chaise-Dieu, of which he soon became the prior, distinguishing himself among his mo- nastic associates bj' a display of brilliant abilities and great erudition. In 1082 he was, after filling various other positions of trust, dispatched on a very important mission by the French papal legate. In 1084 he went to Rome to report the success of his mission to pojje Gregory VII, at that time confined by the emjicror in the castle of Sant-Angelos, and he effected the poiie's liber- ation by encouraging the papal legions to oficr resist- ance to the imperial troops. We need not wonder that such service was Avell repaid by the ]5ai)al court, and that hereafter Jarenton figures iiromincntly in the Ro- man Catholic Church. In 1097 he retired "to his alibey, which he left only to attend, in 1100, the Coimcil of Va- lencia. He died, ajiparently, Feb. 10, 1 1 13. He is sup- posed to have written extensively, but only a letter to Thierr\-, the abbot of St. Hubert," is now known. See Iloefer, Nouv. Bio<j. Generale, xxvi, 375. (J. H.AV.)
Jaresi'ah (Heb. Yaareshyah' , i^^'IJ'i?;^ nourished by Jehovah ; Sept, 'laapaaia), one of the "sons" of Je- roham, a chief Benjamite resident at Jerusalopi (1 Chron. viii, 27), B,C, apparently ante 588,
Jar'ha (Heb, Yarcha', 2.'H*i^, etymology unknown, but probably Eg\-ptian ; Sept, 'iaJxr}X,Vu\g. Jaraa), the Egyptian slave of a Hebrew named Sheshan,who mai- ried the daughter of his master, and was, of course, made free. As Sheshan had no sons, his posteritj^ is traced through this connection (1 Chron. ii, 34-41), which is the only one of the kind mentioned in Scrip- ture. Jarha thus became the founder of a chief house of the Jerahmeelites, which continued at least to the time of king Hezekiah, and from which sprang several illustrious persons, such as Zabad in the reign of David, and Azariah in the reign of Joash (1 Chron. ii, 31 sq). B.C. prob. ante 1658.— Kitto. It is supposed by some that the name of Sheshan's daughter whom Jarha mar- ried was Ahlai, from the statement in ver. 31, comjiared with that in ver. 34; but the masculine form of the word, and the use of Ahlai elsewhere (1 Chron. xi, 41) for a man, is adverse to this conclusion. As Sheslian's oldest grandson by this marriage was called Attai. and as the genealogy would run through him, it is supijosed by others that Ahlai is a clerical error for Attai; while others think Ahlai ("^bplN, disjoiner, from bnx) was a name given to Jarha on his incorporation into the fam- ily of Sheslian. Others conjecture that Ahlai was a son of Sheshan, born after the marriage of his daughter. At what time this marriage occurred we cannot cer- tainly determine, but as Sheshan was the seventh in descent from Hezron, the grandson of Judah, it could not well have been much later than the settlement in Canaan (B.C. 1612), and on the iiresumption that there are no lacuna; in the pedigree, it would naturally fall much prior to the Exode (B.C. 1658). In 1 Sam. xxx, 13, mention is made of an Egyptian who was servant to an Amalekite, and there is no reason why it should seem strange that an Egjinian should also be found in tlie family of a Hebrew, especially as, being a Jerah- meelite, he had (sup]iosing the event to have occurred in Palestine) his possessions in the same tlistrict as the Amalekites, in the south of Judah, nearest to Egypt (1 Sam. xxvii, 10; comp. 2 Sam. xxiii, 20, 21 ; Josh, xv, 21; 1 Chron. xv, 18). See Burrmgton's GeneaL; Bees- I ton, Genealogt) ; Hervey's Geneal. p. 34 ; Bertheau on 1 Chron. ii, 24, etc.). See Sheshan.
Ja'rib (Heb. Yarib', 3'^';^, an adversary, as in Psa. XXXV, 1, etc.; Sept. Tapti'/S, Tapi'f3), the name of three or four men. See also Jareb.
1. A son of Simeon (1 Chron. iv, 24); elsewhere (Gen. xlvi, 10, etc.) called Jachin (q. v.).
2. One of the popidar chiefs dispatched by Ezra to
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procure the company of priests in the return to Jerusa- lem (Ezra viii, 16). B.C. 459.