יְרַחְמְאֵל
Jerahmeel
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3396 appears — 8 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 7 verses
- 1 Chronicles 2:9 יְרַחְמְאֵ֥ל n Proper The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
- 1 Chronicles 2:25 יְרַחְמְאֵ֛ל n Proper The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah.
- 1 Chronicles 2:26 לִֽ/ירַחְמְאֵ֖ל prep + n Proper Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
- 1 Chronicles 2:27 יְרַחְמְאֵ֑ל n Proper The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
- 1 Chronicles 2:33 יְרַחְמְאֵֽל n Proper The sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
- 1 Chronicles 2:42 יְרַחְמְאֵ֔ל n Proper The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
- 1 Chronicles 24:29 יְרַחְמְאֵֽל n Proper Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel.
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ירחמאל (Yᵉrachmᵉʼêl) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Jerahmeel.” 1 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 7 of 8 verses. Spanning 8 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in 1 Chronicles 2:9. For the data behind this summary, explore 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3396 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 7 verses 88%
- Jeremiah 1 verse 13%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 88%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Jerahmeel 7×
- American Standard Version: Jerahmeel 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Jerahmeel 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Jerahmeel 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3396 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3396 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3396 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3396 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. name in Judah 1 Ch 2:9, 25, 26, 27, 33, 42 (cf. adj. gent. foll.). e.g. 1 Chronicles 2:9
- 2. son of king Jehoiakim Je 36:26. e.g. Jeremiah 36:26
- 3. Levite, 1 Ch 24:29. e.g. 1 Chronicles 24:29
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n. pr. m. (may E†l have compassion) Ιεραμεηλ, etc.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רחם (râcham) (H7355) — to love.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H3396 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יְרַחְמְאֵֽל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:33 | 2 |
| יְרַחְמְאֵ֑ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:27 | 1 |
| יְרַחְמְאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:42 | 1 |
| יְרַחְמְאֵ֛ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:25 | 1 |
| יְרַחְמְאֵ֥ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:9 | 1 |
| יְרַחְמְאֵ֨ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 36:26 | 1 |
| לִֽ/ירַחְמְאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:26 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3396, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- רחום rachûwm H7349 compassionate
- רחם racham H7356 compassion
- רחם rechem H7358 womb
- רחם râchâm H7360 vulture
- רחמני rachmânîy H7362 compassionate
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jerahmeel). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Loving God. (1.) The son of Hezron, the brother of Caleb (1 Chr. 2:9, 25, 26, etc.).
(2.) The son of Kish, a Levite (1 Chr. 24:29).
(3.) Son of Hammelech (Jer. 36:26).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(mercy of God).
+ First-born son of hezron, the son of Pharez, the son of Judah, (1 Chronicles 2:9,25-27,33,42) and founder of the family of Jerahmeelites. (1 Samuel 27:10) (B.C. before 1491.) + A Merarite Levite, the representative of the family of Kish, the son of Mahli. (1 Chronicles 24:29) comp. 1Chr 23:21 (B.C. 1014.) + Son of Hammelech, who was employed by Jehoiakim to make Jeremiah and baruch prisoners, after the had burnt the roll of Jeremiah's prophecy. (Jeremiah 36:26) (B.C. 505.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the mercy, or the beloved, of God
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
