I In iza* a verb must be supplied after jtej; 'jni, LXX (A)iT.n,. i«wr M4, v<. '^13i' 'afflicted me.' In v.* the sentence from 11-N '3 ' because they said ' to the end does not make sense. The words, ' because they s,iid, Te are fugitives of Ephraim.' must come from v.6 ; the rest of the sentence is a gloss. The entire half-verse is om. in some MSS of LX.K ; in Syro-Hex. it is asteri.sked.
§ The closing words of 127 cannot be right. LXX (A) i> rfi rtXii «;t»D I'«x««}, Vulg. in ciritate ma Galaad. Studer conjectures •i;'73 .-IB^iCa 11», suggested by i. t^ T.iu .Ct.5 ir Jiji r, the reading of some cursive MSS ; cf. Moore, ad loc.
references to Warfikh in Hamd&ni's ' Description of Arabia,' from which its site can be accurately li.iced. It is possible that the name may be ancient, and that the Jerah of tin m.ay refer to it. Most commentators, however, have preferred to regard Jerah (Heb. ' moon ' or ' month ') as a translation of some Arabic name; but the conjecttires based on this supposition by Hochart, J. 1). .Michaelis, and more recently Glaser {Hkizzc, ii. 4'J5), seem devoid of probability. D. S. MakgoLIOUTH.
JERAHMEEL (Sxifrp; 'may God have com- l)assion ' ; B 'lpa^(7)\, 'Ifpf/wijX, 'Iepe^i}X, 'Payiie^JX ; A 'lepeu.e^\, 'leptMi^X ; Jeramecl). — 1. According to 1 Ch 2" the lirstbom son of Hezron, the son of I'erez, the son of Judah. His descendants, of whom a list is given (vv. '■*"''), lived on the extreme S. border of Judah in what was technicallv called 'the Negeb of the Jerahmcelites ' (1 S 27'" :«!-■*; see Driver, in loc, and G. A. Smith, JJOHL l^\>. 278-286). They ap[)ear to have been an Amalekito or Edomite clan, which was afterwards absorbed bj' Ju(hih.
2. The son of Kish, a Merarite Lerite of the house of Mahli. Jerahmeel appears as the only representative of this branch of the house of Merari at the time when David is said to have organized the temple service (I Ch 23"' 24-").
3. The king's .son (liV, AVm ; 'the son of Hammelech ' A V, HVm) i.e. of the royal blood, who together witli two otlier oflicers was commanded by king Jelioiakim ' to take Uaruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet' after the burning of the roll (Jer H6-'"). J. F. Stenninq.
JERECHU ('Upfxo!, B* -eix-, AV Jerechus), 1 Ea 5==.— In Ezr 2*', Neli 7'» Jericho.
JERED (IT. It is the same name which is given in Gn 5">- '«• '*• =», 1 Ch 1-" as Jared).— A Judahite, the ' father ' of Gedor, 1 Ch 4"».
JEREMAI C^t).— A Jew of the family of Hashum who had married a foreign wife (Ezr 10*").
JEREMIAH. — Seven or eight men of this name besides the prophet (see next art.) are mentioned in OT. The Heb. is alw.ays .tdi; or '.i;d-i:. 1. A warrior of the tribe of Gad, fifth in reputation (1 Ch 12'°) of those who joined David in ' the hold in the wilderness ' in the neighbourhood either of Adullam or of En-gedi, most probably of the latter. 2. The tenth in reputation (1 Ch 12") of the same Gadite band. 3. A bowonan and slinger of the tribe of Benjamin (1 Ch IV), who joined David during his occupation of the frontier city of Ziklag. i. The head of a family in the eastern section of the tribe of Manasseh (1 Ch 5^). He was probably one of the Jews carried intr cap- tivity by Tiglath-pileser, and settled by hin: jn the Armenian frontier (1 Ch S'", 2 K 15-^). 5. A Jew of Libnah, whose daughter, Hamutal or Hamital, was one of the wives of Josiah, and mother of Jehoahaz (2 K 23") and Zedekiah (2 K 24'*, Jer 52'). In the last two passages the motlier's name is given as Hamital, 7B'Dn ; but a textual error is more probable than that Josiah married two sisters, both daughters of Jeremiali. The latter's place of residence (Jos 21", 1 Ch 6''), and his relations with the king, as well as the respectful way in which he is in each instance referred to as a well-known man, make it likely that he was a priestof great influence, and pcssibly also one of the principal instigators or agents of .losiah in the ritual restoration of his reign. 6. Tile son of Habazziniah and father of Jaazaniah, who appears to have been the head of the Rechab ites (Jer 35') in the time of the prophet Jeremiah
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7. A priest who in B.C. 536 came back to Jerusalem with Zerubbiibel and Jesliua (Neli 12'). His name wa.s given to one of tlio twenty-two courses or 'fathers'-houses,' into which were divided the four families of priests (Ezr '^•^, Neh T^-^s) that re- turned on that occasion. It is not possible to say with certainty to which of these families Jeremiah belonged ; but if the lists are parallel, he may have been a member of tliat of Jedaiah, with ■which also the high priest Jeshua wa.s connected. The course is mentioned again (Neh 12") in the priesthood (B.C. 499-403) of Joiakim, Jeshua's son and successor, when its head is said to have been llaimniah. 8. A priest who in the name of his course, with other princes and representatives of tlie people, sealed in B.C. 444 Nehemiah's great covenant (Neh 10^). He (or his course) was also appointed to join the right-hand procession at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12**). It is jx)98ible that in both of these cases the name is used to denote the otticial head of a priestly course rather than an individual in his own person. In the former, fifteen of the twenty-one names are identical with those in the lists of Neli 12-' and Neh 12""*' ; and hence there is ^ound for the assumption that the name is used in this in.stance as the otBcial designation of a class. Hut in the latter the forms of expression are sliglitlv in favour of the opposite conclusion, Neh 12" referring specilically to the priests' sons, whilst there is an antecedent probability that the procession would consist of selected representatives only. That, moreover, the name of Jeremiah should recur in dill'erent generations of the same family, is not forbidden by known Jewish usage. In the days of Joiakim, Hananiah was the head of the course of Jeremiah (Neh 12'") ; but Joiakim died some sixteen years before the dedication of the wall, and in tlie interval it is not unlikely that the headship of the course of Jeremiah had passed into the hands of a man who bore the great family name. And if this Jeremiah was a person and not a class, lapse of time is fatal to his assumed identitication with the previous one (No. 7). R. W. Moss.