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 51:5מֵֽיְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”
  2. Jeremiah 51:6לַֽיהוָ֔ה · of the LORD’s
    Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
  3. Jeremiah 51:7יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
  4. Jeremiah 51:10יְהוָ֖ה · The LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · what the LORD
    “The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
  5. Jeremiah 51:11יְהוָ֗ה · The LORD; יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.
  6. Jeremiah 51:12יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
  7. Jeremiah 51:14יְהוָ֥ה · The LORD
    The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”
  8. Jeremiah 51:19יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
  9. Jeremiah 51:24יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
  10. Jeremiah 51:25יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
  11. Jeremiah 51:26יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
  12. Jeremiah 51:29יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD’s
    The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
  13. Jeremiah 51:33יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
  14. Jeremiah 51:36יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
  15. Jeremiah 51:39יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
  16. Jeremiah 51:45יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.
  17. Jeremiah 51:48יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,” declares the LORD.
  18. Jeremiah 51:50יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
  19. Jeremiah 51:51יְהוָֽה׃ס · of the LORD’s
    “We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
  20. Jeremiah 51:52יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    “Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
  21. Jeremiah 51:53יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
  22. Jeremiah 51:55יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.
  23. Jeremiah 51:56יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    For a destroyer is coming against her—against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.
  24. Jeremiah 51:57יְהוָ֥ה · is the LORD
    I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
  25. Jeremiah 51:58יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
  26. Jeremiah 51:62יְהוָה֙ · O LORD
    …and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
  27. Jeremiah 52:2יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
  28. Jeremiah 52:3יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD
    For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  29. Jeremiah 52:13יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
  30. Jeremiah 52:17יְהוָ֗ה; יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
  31. Jeremiah 52:20יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
  32. Lamentations 1:5יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.
  33. Lamentations 1:9יְהוָה֙ · O LORD
    Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!
  34. Lamentations 1:11יְהוָה֙ · O LORD
    All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
  35. Lamentations 1:12יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
  36. Lamentations 1:17יְהוָ֛ה · The LORD
    Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
  37. Lamentations 1:18יְהוָ֖ה · The LORD
    The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
  38. Lamentations 1:20יְהוָ֤ה · O LORD
    See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
  39. Lamentations 2:6יְהוָ֤ה׀ · The LORD
    He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
  40. Lamentations 2:7יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
  41. Lamentations 2:8יְהוָ֤ה׀ · The LORD
    The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
  42. Lamentations 2:9מֵיְהוָֽה׃ס · from the LORD
    Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
  43. Lamentations 2:17יְהוָ֜ה · The LORD
    The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
  44. Lamentations 2:20יְהוָה֙ · O LORD
    Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  45. Lamentations 2:22יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD’s
    You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
  46. Lamentations 3:18מֵיְהוָֽה׃ס · from the LORD
    So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
  47. Lamentations 3:22יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.