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Definition of Jeremiah

1. Noun. (Old Testament) an Israelite prophet who is remembered for his angry lamentations (jeremiads) about the wickedness of his people (circa 626-587 BC).

2. Noun. A book in the Old Testament containing the oracles of the prophet Jeremiah.

Definition of Jeremiah

1. Proper noun. (biblical character) An ancient prophet, the author of the Book of Jeremiah, and of the Lamentations. ¹

2. Proper noun. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh. ¹

3. Proper noun. (Hebrew male given name) of biblical origin. ¹

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

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jeremiah

Jennings Jennison Jenns Jenny Jenny Lind Jenny Wren Jens Otto Harry Jespersen Jensen Jensen's disease Jensen's sarcoma

Jensenism Jeopardy Jepson Jer. Jerald Jeremiah Jeremias Jeremy Jeremy Bentham Jerevan

Jerez Jerez de la Frontera Jeri Jericho Jerichos Jerilyn Jermain Jerne technique Jeroboam Jeroboam I

Literary usage of Jeremiah

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Vitringa suggested that jeremiah was made to follow the books of Kings, because these were also ascribed to the prophet. Some modern scholars have thought ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"A decent-looking man, jeremiah ; a fine specimen of Irish \ " Is this the House of Commons ?" says jeremiah, vainly looking Constabulary, but just now in ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... as well as Baruch and the Epistle of jeremiah to the same scholar's Apokryphen und Pseudepigraphen des Alten Testaments (1900), and jeremiah and Ezekiel ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"jeremiah (1888); MARTI. Der Prophet Jere- THE PLAINS OF JERICHO и », IM THE WEST) the change of ... The Double Text of jeremiah (Cambridge, 1896): SCHOLZ, ..."

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