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 11:14יְהוָ֤ה · Then the LORD
    Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.
  2. 1 Kings 11:31יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD
    …and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.
  3. 1 Kings 12:15יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · [He]
    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
  4. 1 Kings 12:24יְהוָ֡ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ס · of the LORD
    …that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.
  5. 1 Kings 12:27יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
  6. 1 Kings 13:1יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
  7. 1 Kings 13:2יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
  8. 1 Kings 13:3יְהוָ֑ה · The LORD
    That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’”
  9. 1 Kings 13:5יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    And the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
  10. 1 Kings 13:6יְהוָ֤ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.
  11. 1 Kings 13:9יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”
  12. 1 Kings 13:17יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
  13. 1 Kings 13:18יְהוָ֜ה · of the LORD
    Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
  14. 1 Kings 13:20יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,
  15. 1 Kings 13:21יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    …and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
  16. 1 Kings 13:26יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֜ה · Therefore the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · that the LORD
    When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”
  17. 1 Kings 13:32יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    …for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
  18. 1 Kings 14:5וַיהוָ֞ה · But the LORD
    But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”
  19. 1 Kings 14:7יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.
  20. 1 Kings 14:11יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.’ For the LORD has spoken.
  21. 1 Kings 14:13יְהוָ֛ה · has the LORD
    All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.
  22. 1 Kings 14:14יְהוָ֨ה · Moreover , the LORD
    Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day—yes, even today!
  23. 1 Kings 14:15יְהוָ֜ה · For the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD {to anger}
    For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
  24. 1 Kings 14:18יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the prophet.
  25. 1 Kings 14:21יְהוָ֜ה · the LORD
    Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
  26. 1 Kings 14:22יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
  27. 1 Kings 14:24יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  28. 1 Kings 14:26יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD
    He seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.
  29. 1 Kings 14:28יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would bear the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.
  30. 1 Kings 15:3יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
  31. 1 Kings 15:4יְהוָ֨ה · the LORD
    Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
  32. 1 Kings 15:5יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
  33. 1 Kings 15:11יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.
  34. 1 Kings 15:14יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
  35. 1 Kings 15:15יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    And he brought into the house of the LORD the silver and gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated.
  36. 1 Kings 15:18יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD
    So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this message to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:
  37. 1 Kings 15:26יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.
  38. 1 Kings 15:29יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    As soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone who breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
  39. 1 Kings 15:30יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    …because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he had provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
  40. 1 Kings 15:34יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    And Baasha did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.