diff --git a/src/mathed/InsetMathRef.cpp b/src/mathed/InsetMathRef.cpp
index 1dba426cd0..f249689a2d 100644
--- a/src/mathed/InsetMathRef.cpp
+++ b/src/mathed/InsetMathRef.cpp
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ void InsetMathRef::validate(LaTeXFeatures & features) const
 		features.require("varioref");
 	else if (commandname() == "prettyref")
 		features.require("prettyref");
+	else if (commandname() == "eqref")
+		features.require("amsmath");
 }
 
 
@@ -184,7 +186,7 @@ string const InsetMathRef::createDialogStr(string const & name) const
 
 
 InsetMathRef::ref_type_info InsetMathRef::types[] = {
-	{ from_ascii("ref"),       from_ascii(N_("Standard[[mathref]]")),              from_ascii(N_("Ref: "))},
+	{ from_ascii("ref"),       from_ascii(N_("Standard[[mathref]]")),   from_ascii(N_("Ref: "))},
 	{ from_ascii("eqref"),     from_ascii(N_("Equation")),              from_ascii(N_("EqRef: "))},
 	{ from_ascii("pageref"),   from_ascii(N_("Page Number")),           from_ascii(N_("Page: "))},
 	{ from_ascii("vpageref"),  from_ascii(N_("Textual Page Number")),   from_ascii(N_("TextPage: "))},
diff --git a/src/mathed/MathParser.cpp b/src/mathed/MathParser.cpp
index 68f8787ae7..a5fe8ee700 100644
--- a/src/mathed/MathParser.cpp
+++ b/src/mathed/MathParser.cpp
@@ -1109,8 +1109,8 @@ void Parser::parse1(InsetMathGrid & grid, unsigned flags,
 			parse(cell->back().nucleus()->cell(0), FLAG_ITEM, mode);
 		}
 
-		else if (t.cs() == "ref" || t.cs() == "prettyref" ||
-				t.cs() == "pageref" || t.cs() == "vpageref" || t.cs() == "vref") {
+		else if (t.cs() == "ref" || t.cs() == "eqref" || t.cs() == "prettyref"
+			  || t.cs() == "pageref" || t.cs() == "vpageref" || t.cs() == "vref") {
 			cell->push_back(MathAtom(new InsetMathRef(t.cs())));
 			parse(cell->back().nucleus()->cell(1), FLAG_OPTION, mode);
 			parse(cell->back().nucleus()->cell(0), FLAG_ITEM, mode);
diff --git a/status.15x b/status.15x
index 1e81e6bf12..f58328495c 100644
--- a/status.15x
+++ b/status.15x
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ What's new
 
 - Fix error navigation with the keyboard (bug 4895).
 
+- Allow the use of eqrefs in mathed (bug 4623).
+
 
 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION