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 6:22יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.
  2. Jeremiah 6:30יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
  3. Jeremiah 7:1יְהוָ֖ה · from the LORD
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
  4. Jeremiah 7:2יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD; לַיהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    “Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
  5. Jeremiah 7:3יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD
    Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
  6. Jeremiah 7:4יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
  7. Jeremiah 7:11יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
  8. Jeremiah 7:13יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
  9. Jeremiah 7:19יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
  10. Jeremiah 7:21יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
  11. Jeremiah 7:28יְהוָ֣ה · of the LORD
    Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
  12. Jeremiah 7:29יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
  13. Jeremiah 7:30יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  14. Jeremiah 7:32יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
  15. Jeremiah 8:1יְהוָ֡ה · the LORD
    “At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.
  16. Jeremiah 8:3יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
  17. Jeremiah 8:4יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
  18. Jeremiah 8:7יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
  19. Jeremiah 8:8יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
  20. Jeremiah 8:9יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
  21. Jeremiah 8:12יְהוָֽה׃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.
  22. Jeremiah 8:13יְהֹוָ֑ה · the LORD
    I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
  23. Jeremiah 8:14יְהוָ֨ה · the LORD; לַיהוָֽה׃ · against the LORD
    Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
  24. Jeremiah 8:17יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    “For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
  25. Jeremiah 8:19הַֽיהוָה֙ · Is the LORD
    Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
  26. Jeremiah 9:3יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
  27. Jeremiah 9:6יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
  28. Jeremiah 9:7יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
  29. Jeremiah 9:9יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”
  30. Jeremiah 9:12יְהוָ֛ה · of the LORD
    Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
  31. Jeremiah 9:13יְהוָ֔ה · And the LORD
    And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
  32. Jeremiah 9:15יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
  33. Jeremiah 9:17יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
  34. Jeremiah 9:20יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.
  35. Jeremiah 9:22יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
  36. Jeremiah 9:23יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
  37. Jeremiah 9:24יְהוָ֔ה · am the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
  38. Jeremiah 9:25יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—
  39. Jeremiah 10:1יְהוָ֛ה · the LORD
    Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
  40. Jeremiah 10:2יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.
  41. Jeremiah 10:6יְהוָ֑ה · O LORD
    There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
  42. Jeremiah 10:10וַֽיהוָ֤ה · But the LORD
    But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
  43. Jeremiah 10:16יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
  44. Jeremiah 10:18יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”