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JERAHMEEL

(Heb. yĕraḥmĕʾēl)

1. The brother of Ram and Caleb; son of Hezron and descendant of Judah through Tamar (1 Chr. 2:4, 9). He was the eponymous ancestor of the Jerahmeelites) (1 Chr. 25-27, 33, 42), a Judahite clan living on the southern frontier of Judah (“the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites,” 1 Sam. 27:10), probably in an area S of Beersheba, in the days before David became king of Israel. David first came in contact with them when he fled from Saul and established residence at Ziklag (1 Sam. 27:10; 30:29). It is possible that the Jerahmeelites were assimilated into the tribe of Judah after David became king.

2. A Levite, a son of Kish, from the clan of Merari (1 Chr. 24:29).

3. A Judean officer who served under Jehoiakim, king of Judah. He is called “son of the king” (Jer. 36:26), either an honorary title of an officer or designation of someone related to the royal family — not a son of the 30-year-old Jehoiakim. Jerahmeel was sent by Jehoiakim to seize Jeremiah and Baruch after the scroll containing Jeremiah’s prophecies was burned.

Bibliography. N. Avigad, “Baruch the Scribe and Jerahmeel the King’s Son,” IEJ 28 (1978): 52-56; repr. BA 42 (1979): 114-18.

Claude F. Mariottini

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JERAHMEEL

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)