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. Deuteronomy 5:4יְהוָ֧ה · The LORD
    The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
  2. Deuteronomy 5:5יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said:
  3. Deuteronomy 5:6יְהוָ֣ה · am the LORD
    “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  4. Deuteronomy 5:9יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD
    You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  5. Deuteronomy 5:11יְהוָ֥ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
  6. Deuteronomy 5:12יְהוָ֥֣ה · the LORD
    Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
  7. Deuteronomy 5:14לַיהוָ֣֥ה · to the LORD
    …but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
  8. Deuteronomy 5:15יְהוָ֤֨ה · and that the LORD; יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  9. Deuteronomy 5:16יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  10. Deuteronomy 5:22יְהוָ֨ה · The LORD
    The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
  11. Deuteronomy 5:24יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD
    …and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.
  12. Deuteronomy 5:25יְהוָ֧ה · of the LORD
    But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.
  13. Deuteronomy 5:27יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֧ה · the LORD
    Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
  14. Deuteronomy 5:28יְהוָה֙ · And the LORD; יְהוָ֜ה · and [He]
    And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
  15. Deuteronomy 5:32יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
  16. Deuteronomy 5:33יְהוָ֧ה · the LORD
    You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
  17. Deuteronomy 6:1יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
  18. Deuteronomy 6:2יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    …so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
  19. Deuteronomy 6:3יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD
    Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
  20. Deuteronomy 6:4יְהוָ֥ה · The LORD; יְהוָ֥ה׀ · the LORD
    Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.
  21. Deuteronomy 6:5יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
  22. Deuteronomy 6:10יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
  23. Deuteronomy 6:12יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    …be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  24. Deuteronomy 6:13יְהוָ֧ה · the LORD
    Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
  25. Deuteronomy 6:15יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֤ה · of the LORD
    For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.
  26. Deuteronomy 6:16יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
  27. Deuteronomy 6:17יְהוָ֣ה · of the LORD
    You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.
  28. Deuteronomy 6:18יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
  29. Deuteronomy 6:19יְהוָֽה׃ס · the LORD
    …driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
  30. Deuteronomy 6:20יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
  31. Deuteronomy 6:21יְהוָ֛ה · but the LORD
    …then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
  32. Deuteronomy 6:22יְהוָ֡ה · the LORD
    Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.
  33. Deuteronomy 6:24יְהוָ֗ה · And the LORD; יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.
  34. Deuteronomy 6:25יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”
  35. Deuteronomy 7:1יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
  36. Deuteronomy 7:2יְהוָ֧ה · and when the LORD
    …and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
  37. Deuteronomy 7:4יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    …because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
  38. Deuteronomy 7:6לַיהוָ֖ה · to the LORD; יְהוָ֣ה · The LORD
    For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
  39. Deuteronomy 7:7יְהוָ֛ה · The LORD
    The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.