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 31:2יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”
  2. Jeremiah 31:3יְהוָ֖ה · The LORD
    The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
  3. Jeremiah 31:6יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
  4. Jeremiah 31:7יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · O LORD
    For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
  5. Jeremiah 31:10יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
  6. Jeremiah 31:11יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him.
  7. Jeremiah 31:12יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD
    They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.
  8. Jeremiah 31:14יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.
  9. Jeremiah 31:15יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
  10. Jeremiah 31:16יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.
  11. Jeremiah 31:17יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
  12. Jeremiah 31:18יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
  13. Jeremiah 31:20יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.
  14. Jeremiah 31:22יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD
    How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”
  15. Jeremiah 31:23יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֛ה · May the LORD
    This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore them from captivity, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the LORD bless you, O righteous dwelling place, O holy mountain.’
  16. Jeremiah 31:27יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.
  17. Jeremiah 31:28יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.
  18. Jeremiah 31:31יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
  19. Jeremiah 31:32יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
  20. Jeremiah 31:33יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  21. Jeremiah 31:34יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
  22. Jeremiah 31:35יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
  23. Jeremiah 31:36יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    “Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
  24. Jeremiah 31:37יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
  25. Jeremiah 31:38יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD; לַֽיהוָ֔ה · for [Me]
    “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
  26. Jeremiah 31:40לַֽיהוָ֑ה · to the LORD
    The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
  27. Jeremiah 32:1יְהוָ֔ה · from the LORD
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
  28. Jeremiah 32:3יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
  29. Jeremiah 32:5יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”
  30. Jeremiah 32:6יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
  31. Jeremiah 32:8יְהוָה֮ · Then, as the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
  32. Jeremiah 32:14יְהוָ֨ה · the LORD
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.
  33. Jeremiah 32:15יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”
  34. Jeremiah 32:16יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD:
  35. Jeremiah 32:18יְהוָ֥ה · is the LORD
    You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
  36. Jeremiah 32:26יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  37. Jeremiah 32:27יְהוָ֔ה · am the LORD
    “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?
  38. Jeremiah 32:28יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.
  39. Jeremiah 32:30יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.
  40. Jeremiah 32:36יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
  41. Jeremiah 32:42יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
  42. Jeremiah 32:44יְהוָֽה׃פ · the LORD
    Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”