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Word Study · Strong's H3068 · Hebrew

יְהֹוָה

Yehovah

yeh-ho-vaw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: Yᵉhôvâh

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

Rendered in the KJV as

Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050 (יָהּ), H3069 (יְהֹוִה).

  • 6,520
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 78
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 78

  • יְ֭הוָה56
  • יְהוָ֣ה55
  • יְהוָ֑ה40
  • יְהוָ֥ה31
  • יְהוָֽה׃31
  • יְ֝הוָ֗ה29
  • יְהוָ֗ה25
  • יְהוָ֖ה24
  • יְהוָ֔ה22
  • יְהוָה֙22
  • יְֽהוָ֗ה17
  • יְהוָ֨ה׀15

and 66 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 14

  • Yahweh306
  • O Yahweh121
  • to Yahweh26
  • and Yahweh12
  • in Yahweh12
  • of Yahweh6
  • [am] Yahweh3
  • [belongs] to Yahweh3
  • for Yahweh3
  • from Yahweh3
  • [is] Yahweh2
  • [is] from Yahweh1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 4

  • proper noun (a name)438
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)49
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)12
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNpt · 438
  • HR/Npt · 49
  • HC/Npt · 12
  • HC/R/Npt · 1

The first 500 of 6,520, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis162 occurrences
Psalms338 occurrences

The curated web

Trails through this word

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).