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. Judges 5:23יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    ‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’
  2. Judges 5:31יְהוָ֔ה · O LORD
    So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
  3. Judges 6:1יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֛ה · so He
    Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,
  4. Judges 6:6יְהוָֽה׃פ · the LORD
    Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.
  5. Judges 6:7יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,
  6. Judges 6:8יְהוָ֛ה · [He]; יְהוָ֣ה׀ · the LORD
    He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  7. Judges 6:10יְהוָ֣ה · am the LORD
    And I said to you: ‘I am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you did not obey Me.”
  8. Judges 6:11יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD
    Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
  9. Judges 6:12יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · The LORD
    And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”
  10. Judges 6:13יְהוָה֙ · if the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
  11. Judges 6:14יְהוָ֔ה · The LORD
    The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”
  12. Judges 6:16יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    “Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied, “and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man.”
  13. Judges 6:21יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
  14. Judges 6:22יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he said, “Oh no, Lord GOD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”
  15. Judges 6:23יְהוָ֛ה · But the LORD
    But the LORD said to him, “Peace be with you. Do not be afraid, for you will not die.”
  16. Judges 6:24לַֽיהוָ֔ה · to the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · The LORD
    So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
  17. Judges 6:25יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
  18. Judges 6:26לַיהוָ֣ה · to the LORD
    Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”
  19. Judges 6:27יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.
  20. Judges 6:34יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    So the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, who blew the ram’s horn and rallied the Abiezrites behind him.
  21. Judges 7:2יְהוָה֙ · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
  22. Judges 7:4יְהוָ֜ה · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will sift them for you there. If I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go. But if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”
  23. Judges 7:5יְהוָ֜ה · and the LORD
    So Gideon brought the men down to the water, and the LORD said to him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel to drink.”
  24. Judges 7:7יְהוָ֜ה · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.”
  25. Judges 7:9יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    That night the LORD said to Gideon, “Get up and go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
  26. Judges 7:15יְהוָ֛ה · the LORD
    When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”
  27. Judges 7:18לַיהוָ֥ה · For the LORD
    When I and all who are with me blow our horns, then you are also to blow your horns from all around the camp and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”
  28. Judges 7:20לַֽיהוָ֖ה · for the LORD
    The three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”
  29. Judges 7:22יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.
  30. Judges 8:7יְהוָ֛ה · when the LORD
    “Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”
  31. Judges 8:19יְהוָ֗ה · As surely as the LORD
    “They were my brothers,” Gideon replied, “the sons of my mother! As surely as the LORD lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”
  32. Judges 8:23יְהוָ֖ה · The LORD
    But Gideon replied, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son. The LORD shall rule over you.”
  33. Judges 8:34יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
  34. Judges 10:6יְהוָה֒ · of the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
  35. Judges 10:7יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites,
  36. Judges 10:10יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”
  37. Judges 10:11יְהוָ֖ה · The LORD
    The LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,
  38. Judges 10:15יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    “We have sinned,” the Israelites said to the LORD. “Deal with us as You see fit; but please deliver us today!”
  39. Judges 10:16יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.