Bible Names

Jeremiah: meaning of the name

Jeremiah means “exaltation of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jeremiah in Hebrew and Greek

יִרְמְיָה H3414

Yirmᵉyâh (yir-meh-yaw') — Jirmejah, the name of eight or nine Israelites

or יִרְמְיָהוּ; from H7311 (רוּם) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah will rise;

Ἱερεμίας G2408

Hieremías — Hieremias (i.e. Jermijah), an Israelite

of Hebrew origin (H03414);

People named Jeremiah in the Bible

Jeremiah in Scripture

“Jeremiah” appears in 133 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Kings 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.

  • 2 Kings 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.

  • 1 Chronicles 5:24

    And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.

  • 1 Chronicles 12:4

    And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,

  • 1 Chronicles 12:10

    Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,

  • 1 Chronicles 12:13

    Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.

  • 2 Chronicles 35:25

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:12

    And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord.