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Lexicon :: Strong's G2408 - ieremias

Aa
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)
Dictionary Aids

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 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:18 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:12 - and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah his God; he humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:21 - to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:22 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:1 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:1 -
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A song of David.
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion;
And unto thee shall the vow be performed.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:11 - Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:1 - The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 - Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:3 - And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, Jehovah hath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:1 - The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3 - Then said Jehovah unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

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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 (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon),

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:8 - And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:12 - Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:20 - And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:24 - But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:5 - Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of Jehovah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:6 - even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Jehovah do so; Jehovah perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Jehovah’s house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon unto this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:10 - Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:12 - Then the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:15 - Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Jehovah hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:27 - Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:30 - Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:2 - Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:6 - And Jeremiah said, The word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:1 - Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8 - The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:12 - Therefore the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:1 - The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:4 - Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

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