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Jeremiah The LORD will lift up
Jeremiah is a Hebrew name meaning the lord will lift up, said yir-meh-yaw'. The weeping prophet, who preached forty years to people who would not listen.
Where the name comes from
יִרְמְיָה Yirmᵉyâh — Jirmejah, the name of eight or nine Israelites. Strong's H3414 derives it: or יִרְמְיָהוּ; from H7311 (רוּם) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah will rise.
Jeremiah in Scripture
The name appears in 133 verses, first at 2 Kings 23:31.
2 Kings 23:31 · KJV
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 Kings 24:18 · KJV
Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
1 Chronicles 5:24 · KJV
And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
1 Chronicles 12:4 · KJV
And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
1 Chronicles 12:10 · KJV
Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
1 Chronicles 12:13 · KJV
Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
2 Chronicles 35:25 · KJV
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles 36:12 · KJV
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 36:21 · KJV
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
2 Chronicles 36:22 · KJV
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezra 1:1 · KJV
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Nehemiah 10:2 · KJV
Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
and 121 more.
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