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Jeremias vs Jeremiah - What's the difference?

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Jeremiah is a related term of jeremias.



As proper nouns the difference between jeremias and jeremiah

is that jeremias is new Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah while Jeremiah is an ancient prophet, the author of the Book of Jeremiah, and of the Lamentations.

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.

jeremias

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (biblical character) New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah.
  • * 1611 King James Version of the Bible: Matthew 16:14:
    • Some say that thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; and others, Jeremias or one of the prophets.
  • , more common in the forms Jeremy and Jeremiah.
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    jeremiah

    English

    (Book of Jeremiah)

    Alternative forms

    * (abbreviations of the name of the book of the Bible)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (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.

    • 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.

    Related terms

    * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is pessimistic about the present and foresees a calamitous future; a prophet of doom.

    • Derived terms

    * jeremiad

    Related terms

    * Jeremias * Jeremy * Jerry

    See also

    * (l)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (UK) Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration, etc.