Jeremiah

English

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Etymology

From Hebrew ירמיה (yeermia, “Yahweh exalt”).

Proper noun

Jeremiah

1. (Abrahamic religions) An ancient prophet, the author of the Book of Jeremiah, and of the Lamentations.
2. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
3. A male given name of biblical origin.

Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), 2 Chronicles 35:25:

  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.

• 2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader. Cork University Press. ISBN 1859182585, page 8:

  The man whom you call Diarmaid when you speak Irish, a low, pernicious, un-Irish, detestable custom, begot by slavery, and propagated by cringing, and fostered by flunkeyism, forces you to call Jeremiah when you speak English, or as a concession, Darby.

Translations

a prophet

• Arabic: إرميا (ar) ('irmiyya) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耶利米 (cmn) (Yélìmǐ)

• French: Jérémie (fr) m
• German: Jeremia (de) m
• Greek: Ιερεμίας (el) (Ieremías) m

• Hebrew: יִרְמְיָהוּ‎ (he) (yirmayāhū) m
• Japanese: エレミヤ (ja) (Eremiya)
• Polish: Jeremiasz (pl) m
• Russian: Иеремия (ru) (Ijeremíja) m
• Spanish: Jeremías (es) m

book of the Bible

• Armenian: Երեմիա (Yeremia)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耶利米書 (cmn), 耶利米书 (cmn) (Yélìmǐ shū)

• Czech: Jeremiáš (cs) m
• Danish: Jeremias (da)
• Dutch: Jeremia (nl)
• Finnish: Jeremia (fi)
• French: Jérémie (fr)
• German: Jeremia (de)
• Greek: Ιερεμίας (el) (Ieremías)

• Hebrew: ירמיה (he) (yeermia)
• Italian: Geremia (it)
• Japanese: エレミヤ書 (ja) (Eremiya sho)
• Macedonian: Еремија (mk) (Erémija)
• Maltese: Ktieb Ġeremija
• Norwegian: Jeremia (no), Jeremias (no)
• Polish: Księga Jeremiasza (pl) f
• Russian: Иеремия (ru) (Ijeremíja) f
• Slovene: Jeremija
• Spanish: Jeremías (es)
• Swedish: Jeremia (sv)

male given name

• Armenian: Երեմիա (Yeremia)
• Danish: Jeremias (da)
• Finnish: Jeremias (fi)
• French: Jérémie (fr)
• German: Jeremias (de)
• Greek: Ιερεμίας (el) (Ieremías)
• Italian: Geremia (it)

• Lithuanian: Jeremijas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Еремија (mk) (Erémija)
• Norwegian: Jeremias (no)
• Polish: Jeremiasz (pl) m
• Russian: Иеремия (ru) (Ijeremíja) m, Ерёма (ru) (Jerjóma) m
• Spanish: Jeremías (es)
• Swedish: Jeremias (sv)

Noun

Jeremiah (plural Jeremiahs)

1. A person who is pessimistic about the present and foresees a calamitous future; a prophet of doom.

Derived terms

• jeremiad

Related terms

• Jer.
• Jeremias
• Jeremy
• Jerry

See also

• Cassandra

Interjection

Jeremiah

1. (UK) Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration, etc.