יְהֹוָה

ye.ho.vahLORDHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentTitle6,522 occurrences36 books5,520 verses
This name belongs to 2 different people and places in the Bible:
  • Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions
  • LORD: Names or title used to refer to God

Definition

from H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God
Traditional renderings: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders יְהֹוָה:

Glossary entries

Zion Lord Jerusalem Righteousness Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? Jebus, Jebusite

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

6,522 total
  1. Isaiah 49:14יְהוָ֑ה · The LORD
    But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
  2. Isaiah 49:18יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
  3. Isaiah 49:23יְהוָ֔ה · am the LORD
    Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
  4. Isaiah 49:25יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.
  5. Isaiah 49:26יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
  6. Isaiah 50:1יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
  7. Isaiah 50:10יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.
  8. Isaiah 51:1יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    “Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
  9. Isaiah 51:3יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
  10. Isaiah 51:9יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
  11. Isaiah 51:11יְהוָ֜ה · of the LORD
    So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
  12. Isaiah 51:13יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
  13. Isaiah 51:15יְהוָ֣ה · am the LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
  14. Isaiah 51:17יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger.
  15. Isaiah 51:20יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
  16. Isaiah 51:22יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.
  17. Isaiah 52:3יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
  18. Isaiah 52:5יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.
  19. Isaiah 52:8יְהוָ֖ה · when the LORD
    Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD returns to Zion.
  20. Isaiah 52:9יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
  21. Isaiah 52:10יְהוָה֙ · The LORD
    The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
  22. Isaiah 52:11יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
  23. Isaiah 52:12יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.
  24. Isaiah 53:1יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
  25. Isaiah 53:6וַֽיהוָה֙ · and the LORD
    We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
  26. Isaiah 53:10וַיהוָ֞ה · Yet it was the LORD’s; יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
  27. Isaiah 54:1יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
  28. Isaiah 54:5יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
  29. Isaiah 54:6יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
  30. Isaiah 54:8יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
  31. Isaiah 54:10יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
  32. Isaiah 54:13יְהוָ֑ה · by the LORD
    Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.
  33. Isaiah 54:17יְהוָ֧ה · of the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
  34. Isaiah 55:5יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”
  35. Isaiah 55:6יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
  36. Isaiah 55:7יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
  37. Isaiah 55:8יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
  38. Isaiah 55:13לַֽיהוָה֙ · for the LORD
    Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
  39. Isaiah 56:1יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.
  40. Isaiah 56:3יְהוָה֙ · the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · The LORD
    Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
  41. Isaiah 56:4יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—
  42. Isaiah 56:6יְהוָה֙ · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—