Topic: Persons Of The Bible - Gemariah

The name "Gemariah" means "Yahweh has accomplished" in Hebrew. The name also means "Jehovah has made perfect" or "perfected by Jehovah."

Gemariah was the son of Shaphan, the scribe, and father of Michaiah. Gemariah was one of the Levites of the temple in the time of Jehoiakim (Jer. 36:10; 2 Kings 22:12).

A person named "Gemariah" was one of the nobles of Judah, and had a chamber in the house of the Lord, from which Baruch read Jeremiah's alarming prophecy in the ears of all the people, B.C. 606. (Jeremiah 36:1) and again in the hearing of Gemariah and other scribes. The prophecies of Jeremiah (Jer. 36:11-20), filled him with terror. Gemariah joined with others in entreating the king not to destroy the roll of the prophecies which Baruch had read (21-25).

A person named "Gemariah" was the son of Hilkiah, who accompanied Shaphan with the tribute-money from Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar, and was the bearer at the same time of a letter from Jeremiah to the Jewish captives at Babylon (Jer. 29:3, 4).

Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries

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