Jehovah — the meaning of the Hebrew name יְהֹוָה

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh · pronounced yeh-ho-vaw' · Strong's H3068 · a people

Jehovah means (the) self-Existent or Eternal.

Built from

הָיָה hâyâh (from, H1961) — to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) open in the lexicon ›

יְהֹוִה Yᵉhôvih (from, H3069) — a variation of H3068 [used after H136, and pronounced by Jews as H430, in order to prevent the repetition of the same sound, since they elsewhere pronounce H3068 as H136] open in the lexicon ›

Strong's definition

from H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God.

First appearance

Gen 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, (KJV)

Every verse that names Jehovah

5522 occurrences in 5522 verses — Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

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