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. 2 Kings 19:33יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.
  2. 2 Kings 19:35יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD
    And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
  3. 2 Kings 20:1יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
  4. 2 Kings 20:2יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,
  5. 2 Kings 20:3יְהוָ֗ה · O LORD
    “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  6. 2 Kings 20:4יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
  7. 2 Kings 20:5יְהוָה֙ · the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
  8. 2 Kings 20:8יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
  9. 2 Kings 20:9יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · He
    And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”
  10. 2 Kings 20:11יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.
  11. 2 Kings 20:16יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:
  12. 2 Kings 20:17יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
  13. 2 Kings 20:19יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”
  14. 2 Kings 21:2יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  15. 2 Kings 21:4יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
  16. 2 Kings 21:5יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
  17. 2 Kings 21:6יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
  18. 2 Kings 21:7יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
  19. 2 Kings 21:9יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
  20. 2 Kings 21:10יְהוָ֛ה · And the LORD
    And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,
  21. 2 Kings 21:12יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
  22. 2 Kings 21:16יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
  23. 2 Kings 21:20יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.
  24. 2 Kings 21:22יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
  25. 2 Kings 22:2יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
  26. 2 Kings 22:3יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
  27. 2 Kings 22:4יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
  28. 2 Kings 22:5יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    And let them deliver it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn are to give it to the workmen repairing the damages to the house of the LORD—
  29. 2 Kings 22:8יְהוָ֑ה · of the LORD
    Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
  30. 2 Kings 22:9יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
  31. 2 Kings 22:13יְהוָ֜ה · of the LORD; יְהוָ֗ה · of the LORD
    “Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”
  32. 2 Kings 22:15יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    And Huldah said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Tell the man who sent you
  33. 2 Kings 22:16יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    …that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,
  34. 2 Kings 22:18יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for the words that you heard,
  35. 2 Kings 22:19יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    …because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
  36. 2 Kings 23:2יְהוָ֡ה · of the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
  37. 2 Kings 23:3יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
  38. 2 Kings 23:4יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD
    Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.