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A former Jebusite city, this was the long-standing capital of the Kingdom of Judah
What is Jerusalem?
This early prophecy of Jeremiah featured this common kitchen utensil.
What is a pot? (סיר נפוח, see Jeremiah 1:13).
These three foods, known also from the 2nd paragraph of the Shema (Deuteronomy 11:14) become in rabbinic practice three items necessary for the Shabbat table.
What are: דגן, תירוש ויצהר (Jeremiah 31:11).
The name of the Davidide who was king when Jeremiah began to prophesy.
Who is Josiah?
Jeremiah's "family business," so to speak.
What is "the priesthood"? (Jeremiah 1:1).
In the territory of Benjamin, this is Jeremiah's home town.
What is Anatot?
In this sad prophecy to Jeremiah, God forbade the prophet to enter into this type of family relationship.
What is "Do not marry (or have children)"? (Jeremiah 16:2).
Jeremiah uses these biblical Hebrew words to refer to what rabbinic Hebrew calls the Bet Ha-miqdash.
What is היכל ה׳? (Jeremiah 7:4)
The name of the King of Babylonia who destroyed the Kingdom of Judah.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar/Nebuchadrezzar?
The agricultural metaphor used to describe Israel in one of Jeremiah's early prophecies.
What is "...the first fruits of God's harvest"? (רֵאשִׁ֖ית תְּבוּאָתֹ֑ה, Jeremiah 2:3).
A town in Judah, and home to the prophet Amos, Jeremiah was told to (figuratively) blow the shofar there to warn the people of Judah that trouble was brewing to the north.
What is Tekoa? (Jeremiah 6:1, note wordplay)
In this prophecy, God commanded Jeremiah to instruct the people not to violate Shabbat in this particular way.
What is "do not carry burdens"?
(אל תשאו משא ביום השבת; Jeremiah 17:21-22)
(also accepted: לא תוציאו משא מבתיכם ביום השבת)
(or even וכל מלאכה לא תעשו)
These Hebrew words underlie the English translation for "is not Ephraim a dear son to me?"
What is: הבן יקיר לי אפרים? (Jeremiah 31:19)
Another name for the Babylonians who destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BCE.
Who were the Chaldeans/כשדים?
The names of two early prophets whom God mentions to Jeremiah as prototypes that, however persuasive they were, they would not be able to intercede with God and save Israel from punishment at that time.
Who were Moses and Samuel? (Jeremiah 151).
The first major worship site in the Land of Israel, and the place where the Tabernacle (משכן) first came to rest after the Israelites entered the Land, it was destroyed during the Assyrian conquest of the northern Kingdom of Israel.
What is Shiloh? (see Jeremiah 7:12).
The common potters' material that God used as a figure to refer to the House of Israel.
A version of this prayer spoken by Jeremiah is found in the weekday Amidah.
What is: רְפָאֵ֤נִי ה׳ וְאֵ֣רָפֵ֔א? (Jeremiah 17:14).
The name of Jeremiah's secretary/scribe.
Who was Baruch son of Neriah?
The Hebrew phrase used to express the idea of "prophetic intercession" in such biblical texts as Ezekiel 22:30 and Psalm 106:23.
What is לעמוד בפרץ? (also accepted: גדר גדר).
Sometimes called "the Tophet," it was the place where both kings of Judah and some of its citizenry went to sacrifice their first-born male children.
What is "the Valley of Hinnom"? (a.k.a. Gehinnom - which name came to mean "Gehennah," or hell, in medieval Hebrew).
This particular prophecy featured what weeping matriarch?
Who was Rachel? (רחל מבכה על בניה; Jeremiah 31:15)
What are קול ששון וקול שמחה, קול חתן וקול כלה?
Other than Josiah, the name of at least one of the two "main" kings during whose reigns Jeremiah prophesied.
Who were Jehoaikim and Zedekiah?
(There were two others who reigned quite briefly: Jehoahaz/Shallum and Jehoiachin/Coniah, each of whom reigned some three months at two different times.)
The Hebrew in Jeremiah 18 that mention the three kinds of oral instruction in ancient Israel.
What are: תורה מכהן, עצה מחכם ודבר מנביא? (Jeremiah 18:18).