Person Old Testament
Mered
Mered, a son of Ezrah, married Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh. Mentioned in 2 verses across 1 book, first at 1 Chronicles 4:17.
Why it matters. Son of Ezrah from the tribe of Judah.
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Mered
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).
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Parents
- Ezrah
Appears in Scripture
Named in 2 verses across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.