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. Jeremiah 3:6יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD
    Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
  2. Jeremiah 3:10יְהוָֽה׃פ · the LORD
    Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
  3. Jeremiah 3:11יְהוָה֙ · And the LORD
    And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
  4. Jeremiah 3:12יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
  5. Jeremiah 3:13בַּיהוָ֥ה · against the LORD; יְהֹוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
  6. Jeremiah 3:14יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    “Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
  7. Jeremiah 3:16יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    “In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.
  8. Jeremiah 3:17יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
  9. Jeremiah 3:20יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
  10. Jeremiah 3:21יְהֹוָ֥ה · the LORD
    A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
  11. Jeremiah 3:22יְהֹוָ֥ה · are the LORD
    “Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
  12. Jeremiah 3:23בַּיהֹוָ֣ה · is in the LORD
    Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
  13. Jeremiah 3:25לַיהוָ֨ה · against the LORD; יְהֹוָ֥ה · of the LORD
    Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
  14. Jeremiah 4:1יְהוָ֛ה · the LORD
    “If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
  15. Jeremiah 4:2יְהוָ֔ה · As surely as the LORD
    …and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”
  16. Jeremiah 4:3יְהֹוָ֗ה · the LORD
    For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
  17. Jeremiah 4:4לַיהֹוָ֗ה · to the LORD
    Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
  18. Jeremiah 4:8יְהֹוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
  19. Jeremiah 4:9יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    “In that day,” declares the LORD, “the king and officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be astounded.”
  20. Jeremiah 4:17יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.
  21. Jeremiah 4:26יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
  22. Jeremiah 4:27יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
  23. Jeremiah 5:2יְהֹוָ֖ה · As surely as the LORD
    Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
  24. Jeremiah 5:3יְהֹוָ֗ה · O LORD
    O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
  25. Jeremiah 5:4יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
  26. Jeremiah 5:5יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
  27. Jeremiah 5:9יְהֹוָ֑ה · the LORD
    Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
  28. Jeremiah 5:10לַיהוָ֖ה · belong to the LORD
    Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
  29. Jeremiah 5:11יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.
  30. Jeremiah 5:12בַּיהוָ֔ה · about the LORD
    They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
  31. Jeremiah 5:14יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
  32. Jeremiah 5:15יְהֹוָ֑ה · the LORD
    Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
  33. Jeremiah 5:18יְהֹוָ֑ה · the LORD
    “Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.
  34. Jeremiah 5:19יְהֹוָ֧ה · offense has the LORD
    And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
  35. Jeremiah 5:22יְהֹוָ֗ה · the LORD
    Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
  36. Jeremiah 5:24יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
  37. Jeremiah 5:29יְהֹוָ֑ה · the LORD
    Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
  38. Jeremiah 6:6יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.
  39. Jeremiah 6:9יְהֹוָ֣ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”
  40. Jeremiah 6:10יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD
    To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
  41. Jeremiah 6:11יְהוָ֤ה׀ · the LORD’s
    But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
  42. Jeremiah 6:12יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.
  43. Jeremiah 6:15יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.
  44. Jeremiah 6:16יְהוָ֡ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
  45. Jeremiah 6:21יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”