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 15:5יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    …if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.
  2. Deuteronomy 15:6יְהוָ֤ה · When the LORD
    When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.
  3. Deuteronomy 15:7יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
  4. Deuteronomy 15:9יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  5. Deuteronomy 15:10יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.
  6. Deuteronomy 15:14יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.
  7. Deuteronomy 15:15יְהוָ֣ה · and the LORD
    Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.
  8. Deuteronomy 15:18יְהוָ֣ה · And the LORD
    Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
  9. Deuteronomy 15:19לַיהוָ֣ה · to the LORD
    You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.
  10. Deuteronomy 15:20יְהוָ֨ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose.
  11. Deuteronomy 15:21לַיהוָ֖ה · it to the LORD
    But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
  12. Deuteronomy 16:1לַיהוָ֖ה · to the LORD; יְהוָ֧ה · the LORD
    Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
  13. Deuteronomy 16:2לַיהוָ֥ה · to the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.
  14. Deuteronomy 16:5יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.
  15. Deuteronomy 16:6יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD
    You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.
  16. Deuteronomy 16:7יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.
  17. Deuteronomy 16:8לַיהוָ֣ה · to the LORD
    For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
  18. Deuteronomy 16:10לַיהוָ֣ה · to the LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
  19. Deuteronomy 16:11יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֣ה · He
    …and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
  20. Deuteronomy 16:15לַיהוָ֣ה · to the LORD; יְהוָ֑ה · He; יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.
  21. Deuteronomy 16:16יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
  22. Deuteronomy 16:17יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you.
  23. Deuteronomy 16:18יְהוָ֧ה · the LORD
    You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
  24. Deuteronomy 16:20יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  25. Deuteronomy 16:21יְהוָ֥ה · for the LORD
    Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
  26. Deuteronomy 16:22יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    …and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
  27. Deuteronomy 17:1לַיהוָ֨ה · to the LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · to the LORD
    You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.
  28. Deuteronomy 17:2יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD; יְהוָֽה־ · of the LORD
    If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
  29. Deuteronomy 17:8יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
  30. Deuteronomy 17:10יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you,
  31. Deuteronomy 17:12יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
  32. Deuteronomy 17:14יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD
    When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
  33. Deuteronomy 17:15יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    …you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
  34. Deuteronomy 17:16וַֽיהוָה֙ · for the LORD
    But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
  35. Deuteronomy 17:19יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.
  36. Deuteronomy 18:1יְהוָ֛ה · to the LORD
    The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the food offerings to the LORD; that is their inheritance.
  37. Deuteronomy 18:2יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.
  38. Deuteronomy 18:5יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֛ה · in [His]
    For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.
  39. Deuteronomy 18:6יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,