יְהֹוָה

ye.ho.vahLORD
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.

Glossary entries

Zion Lord Jerusalem Righteousness Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? Jebus, Jebusite

Where it occurs

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

6,522 total
  1. Genesis 12:1יְהוָה֙ · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
  2. Genesis 12:4יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
  3. Genesis 12:7 (2×)יְהוָה֙ · Then the LORD; לַיהוָ֖ה · to the LORD
    Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
  4. Genesis 12:8 (2×)לַֽיהוָ֔ה · to the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
  5. Genesis 12:17יְהוָ֧ה׀ · The LORD, however
    The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
  6. Genesis 13:4יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    …to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
  7. Genesis 13:10 (2×)יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
  8. Genesis 13:13לַיהוָ֖ה · against the LORD
    But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
  9. Genesis 13:14וַֽיהוָ֞ה · the LORD
    After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
  10. Genesis 13:18לַֽיהוָֽה׃פ · to the LORD
    So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
  11. Genesis 14:22יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
  12. Genesis 15:1יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
  13. Genesis 15:4יְהוָ֤ה · of the LORD
    Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
  14. Genesis 15:6בַּֽיהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
  15. Genesis 15:7יְהוָ֗ה · am the LORD
    The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
  16. Genesis 15:18יְהוָ֛ה · the LORD
    On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
  17. Genesis 16:2יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
  18. Genesis 16:5יְהוָ֖ה · May the LORD
    Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
  19. Genesis 16:7יְהוָ֛ה · of the LORD
    Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
  20. Genesis 16:9יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
  21. Genesis 16:10יְהוָ֔ה
    Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”
  22. Genesis 16:11 (2×)יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
  23. Genesis 16:13יְהוָה֙ · to the LORD
    So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
  24. Genesis 17:1יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD
    When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
  25. Genesis 18:1יְהוָ֔ה · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.
  26. Genesis 18:13יְהוָ֖ה · And the LORD
    And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’
  27. Genesis 18:14מֵיְהוָ֖ה · for the LORD
    Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
  28. Genesis 18:17וַֽיהֹוָ֖ה · And the LORD
    And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
  29. Genesis 18:19 (2×)יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
  30. Genesis 18:20יְהוָ֔ה · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
  31. Genesis 18:22יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.
  32. Genesis 18:26יְהוָ֔ה · So the LORD
    So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”
  33. Genesis 18:33יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.
  34. Genesis 19:13 (2×)יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · that [He]
    …because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”
  35. Genesis 19:14יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
  36. Genesis 19:16יְהוָ֖ה · because of the LORD’s
    But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.
  37. Genesis 19:24 (2×)וַֽיהוָ֗ה · Then the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
  38. Genesis 19:27יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
  39. Genesis 20:18יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    …for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.
  40. Genesis 21:1 (2×)וַֽיהוָ֛ה · Now the LORD; יְהוָ֛ה · and the LORD
    Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
  41. Genesis 21:33יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
  42. Genesis 22:11יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.