Jeremiah

• Jer., Jerem. (abbreviations of the name of the book of the Bible)

From Latin Jeremias, from Ancient Greek Ἰερεμίας (Ieremías), from Hebrew יִרְמְיָה‎ (yirm'yá, “Jeremiah”, literally “Yahweh exalt”).

Jeremiah

1. (Abrahamic religions) An ancient prophet, the author of the Book of Jeremiah, and of the Lamentations.
2. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
3. A male given name of biblical origin.

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Chronicles 35:25:

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  And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

• 2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader. Cork University Press. →ISBN, page 8:

  The man whom you call Diarmaid when you speak Irish, a low, pernicious, un-Irish, detestable custom, begot by slavery, and propagated by cringing, and fostered by flunkeyism, forces you to call Jeremiah when you speak English, or as a concession, Darby.

• Yeremei, Jeremy

Jeremiah (plural Jeremiahs)

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

• jeremiad

• Jeremias
• Jeremy
• Jerry

• Cassandra

Jeremiah

1. (Britain) Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration, etc.