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# יִרְמְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3414

**Jeremiah** — used 18 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/1497/3414/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִרְמְיָ֫ה(וּ): n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3414/#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, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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 (15); of Jeremiah (3).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.3/#tree)

שְׂרָיָ֥ה עֲזַרְיָ֖ה יִרְמְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Seraiah Azariah Jeremiah

*JPS 1917:* Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah;

[1 Chronicles 12:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.11/#tree)

מִשְׁמַנָּה֙ הָרְבִיעִ֔י יִרְמְיָ֖ה הַחֲמִשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* Mishmannah \[was\].the fourth Jeremiah \[was\].the fifth

*JPS 1917:* Mashmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3414.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3414/): 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).