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. 1 Kings 1:37יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    Just as the LORD was with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon and make his throne even greater than that of my lord King David.”
  2. 1 Kings 1:48יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD
    …saying, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel! Today He has provided one to sit on my throne, and my eyes have seen it.’”
  3. 1 Kings 2:3יְהוָ֣ה · of the LORD
    And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
  4. 1 Kings 2:4יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD
    …and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
  5. 1 Kings 2:8בַֽיהוָה֙ · by the LORD
    Keep an eye on Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim who is with you. He called down bitter curses against me on the day I went to Mahanaim, but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will never put you to the sword.’
  6. 1 Kings 2:15מֵיְהוָ֖ה · from the LORD
    “You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.
  7. 1 Kings 2:23בַּֽיהוָ֖ה · by the LORD
    Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life.
  8. 1 Kings 2:24יְהוָה֙ · as surely as the LORD
    And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the One who established me, who set me on the throne of my father David, and who founded for me a dynasty as He promised—surely Adonijah shall be put to death today!”
  9. 1 Kings 2:27לַֽיהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.
  10. 1 Kings 2:28יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah but not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.
  11. 1 Kings 2:29יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    It was reported to King Solomon: “Joab has fled to the tent of the LORD and is now beside the altar.” So Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down!”
  12. 1 Kings 2:30יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD
    And Benaiah entered the tent of the LORD and said to Joab, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But Joab replied, “No, I will die here.” So Benaiah relayed the message to the king, saying, “This is how Joab answered me.”
  13. 1 Kings 2:32יְהוָ֨ה · The LORD
    The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
  14. 1 Kings 2:33יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    Their blood will come back upon the heads of Joab and his descendants forever; but for David, his descendants, his house, and his throne, there shall be peace from the LORD forever.”
  15. 1 Kings 2:42בַֽיהוָ֗ה · by the LORD
    …the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and warn you, ‘On the day you leave and go elsewhere, know for sure that you will die’? And you told me, ‘The sentence is fair; I will comply.’
  16. 1 Kings 2:43יְהוָ֑ה · to the LORD
    So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”
  17. 1 Kings 2:44יְהוָ֛ה · Therefore the LORD
    The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.
  18. 1 Kings 2:45יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    But King Solomon will be blessed and David’s throne will remain secure before the LORD forever.”
  19. 1 Kings 3:1יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
  20. 1 Kings 3:2יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
  21. 1 Kings 3:3יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
  22. 1 Kings 3:5יְהֹוָ֛ה · the LORD
    One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
  23. 1 Kings 3:7יְהוָ֣ה · O LORD
    And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.
  24. 1 Kings 5:3יְהוָ֣ה · of the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    “As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.
  25. 1 Kings 5:4יְהוָ֧ה · the LORD
    But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or crisis.
  26. 1 Kings 5:5יְהוָ֣ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.’
  27. 1 Kings 5:7יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    When Hiram received Solomon’s message, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day! He has given David a wise son over this great people!”
  28. 1 Kings 5:12וַיהוָ֗ה · And the LORD
    And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
  29. 1 Kings 6:1לַיהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
  30. 1 Kings 6:2לַֽיהוָ֔ה · for the LORD
    The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
  31. 1 Kings 6:11יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:
  32. 1 Kings 6:19יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
  33. 1 Kings 6:37יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.
  34. 1 Kings 7:12יְהוָ֛ה · the LORD
    The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.
  35. 1 Kings 7:40יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:
  36. 1 Kings 7:45יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    …and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
  37. 1 Kings 7:48יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
  38. 1 Kings 7:51יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃פ · of the LORD
    So all the work that King Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
  39. 1 Kings 8:1יְהוָ֛ה · of the LORD
    At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
  40. 1 Kings 8:4יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    …and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. So the priests and Levites carried them up.
  41. 1 Kings 8:6יְהוָ֧ה · of the LORD
    Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
  42. 1 Kings 8:9יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
  43. 1 Kings 8:10יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD
  44. 1 Kings 8:11יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃פ · of the LORD
    …so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud. For the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.
  45. 1 Kings 8:12יְהוָ֣ה · The LORD
    Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.