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 9:19יְהוָה֙ · But the LORD
    For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.
  2. Deuteronomy 9:20יְהוָ֛ה · The LORD
    The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
  3. Deuteronomy 9:22יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
  4. Deuteronomy 9:23יְהוָ֜ה · And when the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.
  5. Deuteronomy 9:24יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
  6. Deuteronomy 9:25יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
  7. Deuteronomy 9:26יְהוָה֮ · the LORD
    And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
  8. Deuteronomy 9:28יְהוָ֔ה · Because the LORD
    Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
  9. Deuteronomy 10:1יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
  10. Deuteronomy 10:4יְהוָ֨ה · He; יְהוָ֖ה · The LORD
    And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,
  11. Deuteronomy 10:5יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    …and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.
  12. Deuteronomy 10:8יְהוָה֙ · the LORD; יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD
    At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they do to this day.
  13. Deuteronomy 10:9יְהוָה֙ · the LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    That is why Levi has no portion or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God promised him.
  14. Deuteronomy 10:10יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · [and]
    I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
  15. Deuteronomy 10:11יְהוָה֙ · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”
  16. Deuteronomy 10:12יְהוָ֣ה · does the LORD; יְהוָ֨ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  17. Deuteronomy 10:13יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    …and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?
  18. Deuteronomy 10:14לַיהוָ֣ה · to the LORD
    Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
  19. Deuteronomy 10:15יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
  20. Deuteronomy 10:17יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
  21. Deuteronomy 10:20יְהוָ֧ה · the LORD
    You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
  22. Deuteronomy 10:22יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
  23. Deuteronomy 11:1יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
  24. Deuteronomy 11:2יְהוָ֣ה · of the LORD
    Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;
  25. Deuteronomy 11:4יְהוָ֔ה · and [how] He
    …what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;
  26. Deuteronomy 11:7יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.
  27. Deuteronomy 11:9יְהוָ֧ה · the LORD
    …and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  28. Deuteronomy 11:12יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֤ה · of the LORD
    It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.
  29. Deuteronomy 11:13יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD
    So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
  30. Deuteronomy 11:17יְהוָ֜ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    …or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
  31. Deuteronomy 11:21יְהוָ֛ה · the LORD
    …so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
  32. Deuteronomy 11:22יְהוָ֧ה · the LORD
    For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
  33. Deuteronomy 11:23יְהוָ֛ה · then the LORD
    …then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
  34. Deuteronomy 11:25יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you.
  35. Deuteronomy 11:27יְהוָ֣ה · of the LORD
    …a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
  36. Deuteronomy 11:28יְהוָ֣ה · of the LORD
    …but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
  37. Deuteronomy 11:29יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
  38. Deuteronomy 11:31יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,
  39. Deuteronomy 12:1יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD
    These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.