Jeremiah

Jeremiah comes from the Hebrew name Yirmiyahu, meaning "Yahweh will exalt" or possibly "Yahweh will loosen," formed from the elements rama (to exalt) or ramah (height), combined with the divine name Yah. In the Hebrew Bible, Jeremiah is one of the major prophets, known for the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Lamentations, and his name became widely used in the Christian world through the Latin Vulgate and later English Bible translations. The shorter form Jeremy developed in medieval England as a vernacular adaptation, while the Spanish and Portuguese cognate is Jeremías. The Greek and Latin form Hieremias also appears in older ecclesiastical texts.