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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. Numbers 1:1 יְהוָ֧ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  2. Numbers 1:19 יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    As Jehovah commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

  3. Numbers 1:48 יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    For Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

  4. Numbers 1:54 יְהוָ֛ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did they.

  5. Numbers 2:1 יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

  6. Numbers 2:33 יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

  7. Numbers 2:34 יְהוָ֜ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set forward, every one by their families, according to their fathers' houses.

  8. Numbers 3:1 יְהוָ֛ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

  9. Numbers 3:4 יְהוָ֡ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.

  10. Numbers 3:4 יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.

  11. Numbers 3:5 יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

  12. Numbers 3:11 יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

  13. Numbers 3:13 יְהוָֽה׃ ס Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast; mine they shall be: I am Jehovah.

  14. Numbers 3:14 יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

  15. Numbers 3:16 יְהוָ֑ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And Moses numbered them according to the word of Jehovah, as he was commanded.

  16. Numbers 3:39 יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.

  17. Numbers 3:40 יְהוָ֜ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And Jehovah said unto Moses, Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

  18. Numbers 3:41 יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am Jehovah) instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel:

  19. Numbers 3:42 יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    and Moses numbered, as Jehovah commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel.

  20. Numbers 3:44 יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh · A person, place or thing

    And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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