יְרַחְמְאֵלYᵉrachmᵉʼêl
proper name, masculine: may El have compassion
Pronunciation: yer-akh-meh-ale' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3396
Meanings
1. name in Judah (1 Chronicles 2:9; 1 Chronicles 2:25; 1 Chronicles 2:26)
2. son of king Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 36:26)
3. Levite (1 Chronicles 24:29)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 2:9 The sons of Hezron were Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb.
- 1 Chronicles 2:25 The sons of Jerahmeel, the oldest son of Hezron, were Ram (the firstborn), Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.
- 1 Chronicles 2:26 Jerahmeel had a second wife named Atarah. She was the mother of Onam.
- 1 Chronicles 2:27 The sons of Ram, the oldest son of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
- 1 Chronicles 2:33 but Jonathan had two sons named Peleth and Zaza. These were all descendants of Jerahmeel.
- 1 Chronicles 2:42 The descendants of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, included Mesha (the firstborn), who became the father of Ziph. Caleb’s descendants also included the sons of Mareshah, the father of Hebron.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).