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 8:15יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    …and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
  2. 1 Kings 8:17יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
  3. 1 Kings 8:18יְהוָה֙ · But the LORD
    But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.
  4. 1 Kings 8:20יְהוָ֔ה · Now the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
  5. 1 Kings 8:21יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
  6. 1 Kings 8:22יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
  7. 1 Kings 8:23יְהוָ֞ה · O LORD
    …and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
  8. 1 Kings 8:25יְהוָ֣ה׀ · O LORD
    Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
  9. 1 Kings 8:28יְהוָ֣ה · O LORD
    Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.
  10. 1 Kings 8:44יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
  11. 1 Kings 8:54יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
  12. 1 Kings 8:56יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    “Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses.
  13. 1 Kings 8:57יְהוָ֤ה · May the LORD
    May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us or forsake us.
  14. 1 Kings 8:59יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · to the LORD
    And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,
  15. 1 Kings 8:60יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    …so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other!
  16. 1 Kings 8:61יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”
  17. 1 Kings 8:62יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.
  18. 1 Kings 8:63לַיהוָה֒ · to the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
  19. 1 Kings 8:64יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
  20. 1 Kings 8:65יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
  21. 1 Kings 8:66יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
  22. 1 Kings 9:1יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
  23. 1 Kings 9:2יְהוָ֛ה · the LORD
    …the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
  24. 1 Kings 9:3יְהוָ֜ה · And the LORD
    And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
  25. 1 Kings 9:8יְהוָה֙ · has the LORD
    And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
  26. 1 Kings 9:9יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
  27. 1 Kings 9:10יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
  28. 1 Kings 9:15יְהוָ֤ה · of the LORD
    This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
  29. 1 Kings 9:25לַיהוָ֔ה · for the LORD; יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.
  30. 1 Kings 10:1יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.
  31. 1 Kings 10:5יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    …the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
  32. 1 Kings 10:9יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֤ה · Because of the LORD’s
    Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
  33. 1 Kings 10:12יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen again to this day.)
  34. 1 Kings 11:2יְהוָה֩ · the LORD
    These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
  35. 1 Kings 11:4יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
  36. 1 Kings 11:6יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
  37. 1 Kings 11:9יְהוָ֖ה · Now the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
  38. 1 Kings 11:10יְהוָֽה׃פ · the LORD’s
    Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.
  39. 1 Kings 11:11יְהוָ֜ה · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.