Jerahmeel (archangel)

Jerahmeel
Statue of the angel Jeremiel in the Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen
Archangel
Venerated inJudaism, Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Orthodox Church, Lutheran Churches, Anglican Communion
Feast8 November
AttributesBalance scales

The Hebrew name Jerahmeel (Hebrew: יְרַחְמְאֵל Yəraḥməʾēl, Tiberian: Yăraḥmē̆ʾēl,[1] "God shall have mercy"),[2][3] which appears several times in the Tanakh (see the article Jerahmeel), also appears in various forms as the name of an archangel in books of the intertestamental and early Christian periods.

Archangel Jeremiel holding a book, which is also the attribute of the archangel Uriel. Detail of a stained-glass window at St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, Hughenden.
  1. ^ Khan, Geoffrey (2020). The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1. Open Book Publishers. ISBN 978-1783746767.
  2. ^ "Strong's Hebrew Concordance - 3396. Yerachmeel".
  3. ^ "Conjugation of לְרַחֵם". Pealim.

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