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Lexicon :: Strong's G2408 - ieremias

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Ἰερεμίας
Transliteration
ieremias (Key)
Pronunciation
hee-er-em-ee'-as
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin יִרְמְיָה (H3414)
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TDNT Reference: 3:218,*

Strong’s Definitions

Ἱερεμίας Hieremías, hee-er-em-ee'-as; of Hebrew origin (H3414); Hieremias (i.e. Jermijah), an Israelite:—Jeremiah.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G2408 in the following manner: Jeremias (1x), Jeremy (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G2408 in the following manner: Jeremias (1x), Jeremy (2x).

  1. Jeremiah = "whom Jehovah has appointed"

    1. the son of Hilkiah of the priests that were in Anathoth. He was called very young (B.C. 626) to the prophetic office, and prophesied 42 years. He probably died in Egypt.

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Ἱερεμίας Hieremías, hee-er-em-ee'-as; of Hebrew origin (H3414); Hieremias (i.e. Jermijah), an Israelite:—Jeremiah.
STRONGS G2408:
Ἰερεμίας [WH Ἰερ. (see their Introductory § 408); so Rec.st in Matthew 27:9], -ου [Buttmann, 17 (16), 8], ὁ, (יִרְמְיָה or יִרְמְיָהוּ, equivalent to יָהּ יִרְמֶה 'Jehovah casts forth' (his enemies?), or 'Jehovah hurls' (his thunderbolts?); cf. Bleek, Einl. in das A. T. § 206, p. 469, [cf. B. D. under the word Jeremiah]), Jeremiah [A. V. also Jeremias, Jeremy], a famous Hebrew prophet, who prophesied from [circa] B. C. 627 until the destruction of Jerusalem [B. C. 586]. Afterward, he departed into Egypt, where he appears to have died; [cf. B. D. under the word Jeremiah, I. 6]: Matthew 2:17; Matthew 16:14; Matthew 27:9 (in the last passage his name is given by mistake, for the words quoted are found in Zechariah 11:12f; [cf. Prof. Brown in the Journal of the Society for Biblical Literature and Exegesis for December, 1882, p. 101ff; Toy, Quot. in N. T., p. 68ff; for a history of attempted explanations, see Dr. James Morison, Commentary on Matthew, the passage cited]).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Zechariah
11:12
Matthew
2:17; 16:14; 27:9; 27:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2408 matches the Greek Ἰερεμίας (ieremias),
which occurs 107 times in 103 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (2Ki 23:31–Jer 36:4)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:31 - Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:18 - Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:2 - Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:12 - He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:21 - to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:22 - 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, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:1 - 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, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:1 - To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.
Praise is due to you,[fn] O God, in Zion,
and to you shall vows be performed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:1 - The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:11 - And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see an almond[fn] branch.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 - Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:14 - Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD’s house and said to all the people:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:1 - Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:3 - The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:1 - This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:3 - Then Jeremiah said to them: “Thus you shall say to Zedekiah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3 - And the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:7 - The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:8 - And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:12 - Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and all the people, saying, “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:20 - There was another man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:24 - But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:5 - Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:6 - and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD make the words that you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the LORD, and all the exiles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:10 - Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years.” But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:12 - Sometime after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke-bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:15 - And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:27 - Now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who is prophesying to you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:29 - Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:30 - Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:2 - At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:6 - Jeremiah said, “The word of the LORD came to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:1 - The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:6 - Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8 - The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:12 - The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:4 - Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD that he had spoken to him.

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