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# יִרְמְיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Jeremiah** — used 129 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jeremiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e8_5b0_5de_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִרְמְיָ֫ה(וּ): n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e8_5b0_5de_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (? י׳ looseneth, sc. the womb? cf. Assyrian ša kirimmaša rummû, whose womb is loosened DlHWB 623);— 136 proph., son of Ḥilḳiah, of priestly family in ʿAnathôth: יִרְמְיָ֫הוּ Je 1:1, 11; 29:27; 36:1, 4(×2) + 116 times Je, + 2 Ch 35:25; 36:12, 21, 22 (יר׳ הַנָּבִיא Je 21:2 + often); -יָה Je 27:1; 28:5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 15; 29:1 Ezr 1:1; Dn 9:2; Ἰερεμίας. יִרְמְיָ֫הוּ, of Libnah, father of Josiah’s wife, 2 K 23:31; 24:18 = Je 52:1, Ἰερεμίας. -יָ֫הוּ Gadite, David’s time 1 Ch 12:13, Ιερεμεια, 𝔊L Ιεραμαου. The foll. all -יָה, 𝔊 Ἰερεμία(ς), Ἰερμία(ς), etc.: Manassite 1 Ch 5:24. Benjamite 12:4. Gadite 12:10. priestly name: Ne 12:1, 2. Ne 10:3, perhaps = 12:34.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jeremiah (110); of Jeremiah (17); O Jeremiah (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 12:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.14/#tree)

יִרְמְיָ֙הוּ֙ הָעֲשִׂירִ֔יס מַכְבַּנַּ֖י עַשְׁתֵּ֥י עָשָֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* Jeremiah \[was\].the tenth Machbannai \[was.the\].one.plus ten

*JPS 1917:* Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.

[Jeremiah 29:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.29.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.29.30/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ דְּבַר־יְהוָ֔ה אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Jeremiah (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e8_5b0_5de_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e8_5b0_5de_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).