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jē̇-ra´mē̇-el, jē̇-ra´mē̇-el-ı̄ts (ירחמ×ל, yerahÌ£me'eÌ„l, “may God have compassion!â€):
(1) In , , , , , , he is described as the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah by Tamar his daughter-in-law (Gen 38). In is mentioned the neghebh of the Jerahmeelites (הירחמ×לי, ha-yerahÌ£-me'eÌ„lı̄, a collective noun), the Revised Version (British and American) “the South of the Jerahmeelites.†The latter is a tribal name in use probably before the proper name, above; their cities are mentioned in . Cheyne has radical views on Jerahmeel. See EB, under the word; also T. Witton Davies in Review of Theology and Philosophy, III, 689-708 (May, 1908); and Cheyne's replies in Hibbert Journal, VII, 132-51 (October, 1908), and Decline and Fall of the Kingdom of Judah.
(2) A Merarite Levite, son of Kish ().
(3) “The king's son,†the Revised Version (British and American) and the King James Version margin (). the Revised Version margin, the King James Version have “son of Hammelech,†taking the word המּלך as a proper name. He was “probably a royal prince, one who had a king among his ancestors but not necessarily son of the ruling king; so ; ; especially written at a time when the reigning king, Josiah, could not have had a grown-up 'son'†(Driver, Jeremiah, 224, note e). Jerahmeel was with two others commanded by Jehoiakim to arrest Jeremiah and Baruch.