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, Messianic Judaism
Feast8 November
AttributesBalance scales

The Hebrew name Jerahmeel (Hebrew: יְרַחְמְאֵל Yəraḥməʾēl, Tiberian: Yăraḥmē̆ʾēl, "God shall have mercy"), 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.

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