Irad (, ''Irad'') is a name in
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
. In the
Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (from Greek ; Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית ''Bəreʾšīt'', "In hebeginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, ( "In the beginning" ...
, the grandson of
Cain is
Irad.
Genesis 4:18, in a genealogical passage about the descendants of Cain, contains the only reference to Irad in the Bible: "To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael the father of Methushael, and Methushael the father of Lamech" (''New Revised Standard Version'').
The lineage of Cain in Genesis 4:17-22 closely parallels the lineage of Cain's brother
Seth found in Genesis 5:1-32.
In terms of the
Documentary hypothesis, the genealogy of Cain is attributed to the
Jahwist source, while the genealogy of Seth is attributed to the
Priestly source.
The J list and P list contain seven pairs of similar names, and the "Irad" of the Jahwist source is parallel to the "
Jared
Jared is a given name of Biblical derivation.
Origin
In the Book of Genesis, the biblical patriarch Jared (יֶרֶד) was the sixth in the ten pre-flood generations between Adam and Noah; he was the son of Mahalaleel and the father of En ...
" of the Priestly source.
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References
Book of Genesis
Persian masculine given names
Masculine given names
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