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 23:16יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
  2. Jeremiah 23:17יְהוָ֔ה · The LORD
    They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
  3. Jeremiah 23:18יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?
  4. Jeremiah 23:19יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD
    Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
  5. Jeremiah 23:20יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.
  6. Jeremiah 23:23יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away?”
  7. Jeremiah 23:24יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    “Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
  8. Jeremiah 23:28יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.
  9. Jeremiah 23:29יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    “Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”
  10. Jeremiah 23:30יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    “Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”
  11. Jeremiah 23:31יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    “Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and proclaim, ‘The LORD declares it.’”
  12. Jeremiah 23:32יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    “Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
  13. Jeremiah 23:33יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    “Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
  14. Jeremiah 23:34יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.
  15. Jeremiah 23:35יְהוָ֔ה · has the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · has the LORD
    This is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother: ‘What has the LORD answered?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
  16. Jeremiah 23:36יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    But refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.
  17. Jeremiah 23:37יְהוָ֔ה · has the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · has the LORD
    Thus you are to say to the prophet: ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ and ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
  18. Jeremiah 23:38יְהוָה֮ · of the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃
    But if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,
  19. Jeremiah 24:1יְהוָה֒ · the LORD; יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
  20. Jeremiah 24:3יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD
    “Jeremiah,” the LORD asked, “what do you see?” “Figs!” I replied. “The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.”
  21. Jeremiah 24:4יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  22. Jeremiah 24:5יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
  23. Jeremiah 24:7יְהוָ֔ה · am the LORD
    I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
  24. Jeremiah 24:8יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.
  25. Jeremiah 25:3יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    “From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
  26. Jeremiah 25:4יְהוָ֨ה · And the LORD
    And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.
  27. Jeremiah 25:5יְהוָ֛ה
    The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
  28. Jeremiah 25:7יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    ‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’
  29. Jeremiah 25:8יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
  30. Jeremiah 25:9יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    …behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
  31. Jeremiah 25:12יְהוָ֛ה · the LORD
    But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
  32. Jeremiah 25:15יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
  33. Jeremiah 25:17יְהוָ֑ה · from the LORD’s; יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,
  34. Jeremiah 25:27יְהוָ֨ה · the LORD
    “Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’
  35. Jeremiah 25:28יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it!
  36. Jeremiah 25:29יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
  37. Jeremiah 25:30יְהוָ֞ה · The LORD
    So you are to prophesy all these words against them and say to them: ‘The LORD will roar from on high; He will raise His voice from His holy habitation. He will roar loudly over His pasture; like those who tread the grapes, He will call out with a shout against all the inhabitants of the earth.
  38. Jeremiah 25:31לַֽיהוָה֙ · the LORD
    The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,’” declares the LORD.