יִרְמְיָה
Yirmᵉyâh · yir-meh-yaw'
Jirmejah, the name of eight or nine Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: or יִרְמְיָהוּ; from H7311 (רוּם) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah will rise;
Jirmejah, the name of eight or nine Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Jeremiah.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › the head, the highest › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the hand that works › to reveal, behold
The hand that works of the head, the highest of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the hand that works that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יִרְמְיָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
147 occurrences · 147 OT · 0 NT · 34 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- jeremiah38 · 27%
- of jeremiah17 · 12%
- and jeremiah15 · 11%
- unto jeremiah13 · 9%
- that came to jeremiah10 · 7%
- came unto jeremiah6 · 4%
- then jeremiah6 · 4%
- that jeremiah4 · 3%
- came to jeremiah4 · 3%
- to jeremiah4 · 3%
- which came unto jeremiah3 · 2%
- so jeremiah3 · 2%
- which came to jeremiah2 · 1%
- against jeremiah2 · 1%
- which jeremiah2 · 1%
- moreover jeremiah2 · 1%
- thou, jeremiah1 · 1%
- the which jeremiah1 · 1%
- now it came to pass, when jeremiah1 · 1%
- was with jeremiah1 · 1%
- jeremiah's1 · 1%
- that came unto jeremiah1 · 1%
- according to all that jeremiah1 · 1%
- thee, thou and jeremiah1 · 1%
- now jeremiah1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.