yirmya · Jeremiah

What it means

yirmya (יִרְמְיָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jeremiah”.

A name meaning "YHWH raises up" or "YHWH exalts," borne by several men: best known is the prophet, son of Hilkiah, from Anathoth (Jeremiah 1:1); in 2 Kings 23:31 and 24:18 another Jeremiah, of Libnah, grandfather of two kings.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×4
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×4
• Jeremiah×131
• Daniel×1

• 2 Kings 23:31

  Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

• 2 Kings 24:18

  Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

• 1 Chronicles 5:24

  And these were the heads of their fathers’ houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, men, mighty men of valor, men of renown, heads of their fathers’ houses.

• 1 Chronicles 12:4

  and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite;

• 1 Chronicles 12:10

  Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,

• 1 Chronicles 12:13

  Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.

• 2 Chronicles 35:25

  Jeremiah chanted a dirge for Josiah; and all the male singers and the female singers have spoken of Josiah in their dirges to this day, and they made them a statute for Israel; and they are written in the Dirges.

• 2 Chronicles 36:12

  He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH his Elohim; he did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 36:21

  to fulfill the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths; all the days of its desolation it ceased, to fulfill seventy years.

• 2 Chronicles 36:22

  In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah, YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,

• Ezra 1:1

  And in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of YHWH from the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he made a proclamation pass throughout all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying:

• Nehemiah 10:2

  Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

• Nehemiah 12:1

  And these are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

• Nehemiah 12:12

  And in the days of Joiakim there were priests, heads of the fathers’ houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

• Nehemiah 12:34

  Judah and Benjamin, and Shemaiah and Jeremiah,

• Jeremiah 1:1

  The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

• Jeremiah 1:11

  And the word of YHWH came to me, saying, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “A rod of almond I see.”

• Jeremiah 7:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,

• Jeremiah 11:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying:

• Jeremiah 14:1

  What came as the word of YHWH to Jeremiah concerning the matters of the droughts.

• Jeremiah 18:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying:

• Jeremiah 18:18

  And they said: “Come, and let us devise against Jeremiah plans, for instruction will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

• Jeremiah 19:14

  And Jeremiah came from Topheth, where YHWH had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the house of YHWH and said to all the people,

• Jeremiah 20:1

  And Pashhur son of Immer, the priest, heard —and he was chief overseer in the house of YHWH— Jeremiah prophesying these things.

• Jeremiah 20:2

  And Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the gate of Benjamin, the upper one, which was in the house of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 20:3

  And it happened on the next day that Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks, and Jeremiah said to him, “Not ‘Pashhur’ has YHWH called your name, but ‘Terror on Every Side.’

• Jeremiah 21:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,

• Jeremiah 21:3

  And Jeremiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to Zedekiah:

• Jeremiah 24:3

  And YHWH said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten for badness.”

• Jeremiah 25:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah —that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon—

• Jeremiah 25:2

  which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

• Jeremiah 25:13

  And I will bring upon that land all my words that I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.

• Jeremiah 26:7

  And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 26:8

  And it happened, when Jeremiah finished speaking all that YHWH had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!

• Jeremiah 26:9

  Why have you prophesied in the name of YHWH, saying, ‘Like Shiloh this house will be, and this city will be laid waste, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 26:12

  And Jeremiah said to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “YHWH sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

• Jeremiah 26:20

  And there was also a man prophesying in the name of YHWH, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

• Jeremiah 26:24

  But the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so as not to give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

• Jeremiah 27:1

  At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,

• Jeremiah 28:5

  And Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Hananiah the prophet before the eyes of the priests and before the eyes of all the people who were standing in the house of YHWH;

And 107 more times.