Jeremiah vs Jeremy - What's the difference?
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(Abrahamic religions) An ancient prophet, the author of the Book of Jeremiah, and of the Lamentations.
(biblical) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
of biblical origin.
A person who is pessimistic about the present and foresees a calamitous future; a prophet of doom.
(UK) Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration, etc.
, English form of Jeremiah. Also used to anglicize Irish Diarmaid (Dermot).
* 1611 King James Version of the Bible: Matthew 2:17 :
* 1840 John Bowring: Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, p.169 :
Jeremy is a related term of jeremiah.
As proper nouns the difference between jeremiah and jeremy
is that jeremiah is an ancient prophet, the author of the Book of Jeremiah, and of the Lamentations while Jeremy is a given name derived from Hebrew, English form of Jeremiah. Also used to anglicize Irish Diarmaid (Dermot).As a noun Jeremiah
is a person who is pessimistic about the present and foresees a calamitous future; a prophet of doom.As an interjection Jeremiah
is expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration, etc.jeremiah
English
(Book of Jeremiah)Alternative forms
* (abbreviations of the name of the book of the Bible)Proper noun
(en proper noun)Quotations
* : *: 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 1859182585, 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.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* jeremiadSee also
* (l)Interjection
(en interjection)jeremy
English
Proper noun
(en-proper noun) (plural Jeremys )- Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet.
- He had the name of Jeremy given to him, because Jeremiah, as his father said, was a family name; and there was an advantage in curtailing a syllable, and in showing a preference towards the names of the New Testament over those of the old.