Bered is one of the small entries in the figure of Aquila, the eagle, a constellation of the summer Milky Way whose brightest star, Altair, is one of the three that form the Summer Triangle. The Greek figure is the eagle of Zeus, the bird that carried the thunderbolts and bore Ganymede to Olympus; in Mesopotamian tradition an eagle was already recognised in roughly this region of sky. The name Bered is of Semitic appearance and is one of a number of such forms scattered through the older star lists, sometimes drawn from Hebrew renderings of star positions circulated in Renaissance and early modern astrological literature. No traditional Ptolemaic planetary nature is recorded for it, and it has no interpretive tradition; it is a position in a catalogue.
Names of exactly this kind, precise, minor, and largely without an accompanying interpretive tradition, are the bread and butter of Richard Hinckley Allen's 1899 reference Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, still the standard English source for the fixed-star nomenclature the modern astrological lists inherited; a great many of Allen's Arabic names in turn trace to the seventeenth-century Cairo astronomer Al-Achsasi al-Mouakket, whose star calendar of about 1650 was unknown in the West until Edward Ball Knobel published it in 1895, only four years before Allen's book appeared and folded its contents into general circulation. Bered's Hebrew-looking form likely reflects exactly the Renaissance and early-modern interest in Hebrew star equivalents that produced Bezek elsewhere in this same constellation, two names probably assembled by the same kind of source rather than surviving from any continuous tradition of Hebrew astronomy.