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יְהֹוָה

ye.ho.vah · LORD

Hebrew · Strong's H3068 · Noun · Sounds like: yeh-ho-vaw' · 6,528 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • LORD H3068G 6,526
  • The Lord H3068H · a Name of 1
  • (Jerusalem of) the Lord H3068I · a Part of 1

Strong's dictionary

from הָיָה; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God; Jehovah, the Lord. Compare יָהּ, יְהֹוִה.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
יהוה c. 6823 i.e. יַהְוֶה n.pr.dei Yahweh, the proper name of the God of Israel—(1. MT יְהֹוָה 6518 (Qr אֲדֹנָי), or יֱהֹוִה 305 (Qr אֱלֹהִים) 2. Many recent scholars explain יַהְוֶה as Hiph. of הוה (= היה) the one bringing into being, life-giver)
I. יהוה is not used by E in Gn, but is given Ex 3:12-15 as the name of the God who revealed Himself to Moses at Horeb
II.
1. יהוה is used with אלהים and suffixes, especially in D
2. the phrase † אֲנִי יהוה is noteworthy
3. יהוה is also used with several predicates, to form sacred names of holy places of Yahweh

Every occurrence

  1. Micah 1:1 יְהוָ֣ה׀ Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

  2. Micah 1:3 יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

  3. Micah 1:12 יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

  4. Micah 2:3 יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

  5. Micah 2:5 יְהוָֽה׃ Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.

  6. Micah 2:7 יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

  7. Micah 2:13 וַיהוָ֖ה va.Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    The breaker is gone up before them: they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.

  8. Micah 3:4 יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

  9. Micah 3:5 יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

  10. Micah 3:8 יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

  11. Micah 3:11 יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

  12. Micah 3:11 יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

  13. Micah 4:1 יְהוָ֤ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow unto it.

  14. Micah 4:2 יְהוָ֗ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem;

  15. Micah 4:2 יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem;

  16. Micah 4:4 יְהוָ֥ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it.

  17. Micah 4:5 יְהוָ֥ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    For all the peoples walk every one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.

  18. Micah 4:6 יְהוָ֗ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    In that day, saith Jehovah, will I assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;

  19. Micah 4:7 יְהוָ֤ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Jehovah will reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth even for ever.

  20. Micah 4:10 יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon: there shalt thou be rescued; there will Jehovah redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

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