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. Numbers 33:2יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD’s
    At the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:
  2. Numbers 33:4יְהוָ֛ה · whom the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · for the LORD
    …who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had executed judgment against their gods.
  3. Numbers 33:38יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD’s
    At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.
  4. Numbers 33:50יְהוָ֛ה · the LORD
    On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,
  5. Numbers 34:1יְהוָ֖ה · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  6. Numbers 34:13יְהוָ֔ה · The LORD
    So Moses commanded the Israelites, “Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.
  7. Numbers 34:16יְהוָ֖ה · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  8. Numbers 34:29יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
  9. Numbers 35:1יְהוָ֛ה · Again the LORD
    Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:
  10. Numbers 35:9יְהוָ֖ה · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD said to Moses,
  11. Numbers 35:34יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”
  12. Numbers 36:2יְהוָ֔ה · When the LORD; בַֽיהוָ֔ה · [He]
    …saying, “When the LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, He also commanded him to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
  13. Numbers 36:5יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    So at the word of the LORD, Moses commanded the Israelites: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks correctly.
  14. Numbers 36:6יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.
  15. Numbers 36:10יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  16. Numbers 36:13יְהוָ֛ה · the LORD
    These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
  17. Deuteronomy 1:3יְהוָ֛ה · the LORD
    In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
  18. Deuteronomy 1:6יְהוָ֧ה · The LORD
    The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
  19. Deuteronomy 1:8יְ֠הוָה · the LORD
    See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
  20. Deuteronomy 1:10יְהוָ֥ה · The LORD
    The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
  21. Deuteronomy 1:11יְהוָ֞ה · May the LORD
    May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
  22. Deuteronomy 1:19יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
  23. Deuteronomy 1:20יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
  24. Deuteronomy 1:21יְהוָ֧ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD
    See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
  25. Deuteronomy 1:25יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
  26. Deuteronomy 1:26יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
  27. Deuteronomy 1:27יְהוָה֙ · Because the LORD
    You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated.
  28. Deuteronomy 1:30יְהוָ֤ה · The LORD
    The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt
  29. Deuteronomy 1:31יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    …and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”
  30. Deuteronomy 1:32בַּיהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,
  31. Deuteronomy 1:34יְהוָ֖ה · When the LORD
    When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
  32. Deuteronomy 1:36יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    …except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”
  33. Deuteronomy 1:37יְהוָ֔ה · The LORD
    The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
  34. Deuteronomy 1:41לַֽיהוָה֒ · against the LORD; יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    “We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.
  35. Deuteronomy 1:42יְהוָ֜ה · But the LORD
    But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”
  36. Deuteronomy 1:43יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.
  37. Deuteronomy 1:45יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · but [He]
    And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.
  38. Deuteronomy 2:1יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.
  39. Deuteronomy 2:2יְהוָ֖ה · At this time the LORD
    At this time the LORD said to me,
  40. Deuteronomy 2:7יְהוָ֨ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֤ה · The LORD
    Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
  41. Deuteronomy 2:9יְהוָ֜ה · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
  42. Deuteronomy 2:12יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)
  43. Deuteronomy 2:14יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
  44. Deuteronomy 2:15יְהוָה֙ · the LORD’s
    Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.