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The name Jeremy is of Hebrew origin and means "God will uplift" or "appointed by God". It is derived from the Hebrew name Yirmeyahu (יִרְמְיָהוּ), which carries the same meaning. Jeremy is a common English form of the name Jeremiah, often used in English-speaking countries, as "Jeremy" is the anglicized and diminutive form of the ...
Jeremiah inspired the French noun jérémiade, and subsequently the English jeremiad, meaning "a lamentation; mournful complaint," [88] or further, "a cautionary or angry harangue." [ 89 ] Jeremiah has periodically been a popular first name in the United States , beginning with the early Puritan settlers, who often took the names of biblical ...
The Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Gifford, E. H. (1888). "The Epistle of Jeremy," in The Holy Bible according to the authorized version (A.D. 1611).: With an explanatory and critical commentary and a revision of the translation by clergy of the Anglican church.
Jeremiah is sometimes an anglicised form of the Irish Diarmaid, while "Jeremy" is the anglicized of "Jeremiah" in the English language. The name takes its popularity from the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah. Those bearing the name include:
The Book of Jeremiah (Hebrew: ספר יִרְמְיָהוּ) is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. [1] The superscription at chapter Jeremiah 1:1–3 identifies the book as "the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah". [ 1 ]
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, The World English Bible translates the passage as: Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, The Novum Testamentum Graece text is: τότε ἐπληρώθη τὸ ῥηθὲν
Much Hebrew theophory occurs in the Jewish Bible. The most prominent theophoric names are: names containing El, a word meaning might, power and (a) god in general, and hence in Judaism, God and among the Canaanites the name of the god who was the father of Baal. names containing Yah, a shortened form of Yahweh.
Jeremiah 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets.