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. Isaiah 29:10יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
  2. Isaiah 29:15מֵֽיהוָ֖ה · from the LORD
    Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
  3. Isaiah 29:19בַּֽיהוָ֖ה · in the LORD
    The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
  4. Isaiah 29:22יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.
  5. Isaiah 30:1יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
  6. Isaiah 30:9יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD’s
    These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
  7. Isaiah 30:18יְהוָה֙ · the LORD; יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD
    Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
  8. Isaiah 30:26יְהוָה֙ · that the LORD
    The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
  9. Isaiah 30:27יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
  10. Isaiah 30:29יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
  11. Isaiah 30:30יְהוָ֜ה · And the LORD [will cause]
    And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
  12. Isaiah 30:31יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter.
  13. Isaiah 30:32יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished.
  14. Isaiah 30:33יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
  15. Isaiah 31:1יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD
    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
  16. Isaiah 31:3וַֽיהוָ֞ה · When the LORD
    But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
  17. Isaiah 31:4יְהוָ֣ה׀ · the LORD; יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
  18. Isaiah 31:5יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”
  19. Isaiah 31:9יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
  20. Isaiah 32:6יְהוָה֙ · the LORD
    For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
  21. Isaiah 33:2יְהוָ֥ה · O LORD
    O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.
  22. Isaiah 33:5יְהוָ֔ה · The LORD
    The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
  23. Isaiah 33:6יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.
  24. Isaiah 33:10יְהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    “Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.
  25. Isaiah 33:21יְהוָה֙ · our LORD
    But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.
  26. Isaiah 33:22יְהוָה֙ · the LORD; יְהוָ֖ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
  27. Isaiah 34:2לַֽיהוָה֙ · The LORD
    The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
  28. Isaiah 34:6לַיהוָ֞ה · of the LORD; לַֽיהוָה֙ · the LORD
    The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
  29. Isaiah 34:8לַֽיהוָ֑ה · the LORD
    For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
  30. Isaiah 34:16יְהוָה֙ · of the LORD
    Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
  31. Isaiah 35:2יְהוָ֖ה · of the LORD
    It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
  32. Isaiah 35:10יְהוָ֜ה · of the LORD
    So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
  33. Isaiah 36:7יְהוָ֥ה · the LORD
    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?
  34. Isaiah 36:10יְהוָ֔ה · the LORD; יְהוָה֙ · The LORD Himself
    So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
  35. Isaiah 36:15יְהוָ֣ה · in the LORD; יְהוָ֑ה · The LORD
    Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
  36. Isaiah 36:18יְהוָ֖ה · The LORD
    Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
  37. Isaiah 36:20יְהוָ֛ה · can the LORD
    Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
  38. Isaiah 37:1יְהוָֽה׃ · of the LORD
    On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.
  39. Isaiah 37:4יְהוָ֨ה · the LORD; יְהוָ֣ה · the LORD
    Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
  40. Isaiah 37:6יְהוָ֗ה · the LORD
    …who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
  41. Isaiah 37:14יְהוָ֔ה · of the LORD; יְהוָֽה׃ · the LORD
    So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.