Yᵉhôvâh — H3068

H3068 · Hebrew — יהוה

Pronunciation: yeh-ho-vaw'

Definition

deity proper noun

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

  1. Jehovah = "the existing One"
  2. the proper name of the one true God
    1. unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of H0136

Usually translated as

the Lord, Jehovah

Origin

from H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

Yᵉhôvâh occurs 6,515 times in 5,523 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (141), Exodus (341), Leviticus (281), Numbers (350), Deuteronomy (438), Joshua (169), Judges (137), Ruth (15), 1 Samuel (240), 2 Samuel (124), 1 Kings (212), 2 Kings (227), 1 Chronicles (144), 2 Chronicles (307), Ezra (28), Nehemiah (15), Job (23), Psalms (623), Proverbs (87), Isaiah (373), Jeremiah (614), Lamentations (32), Ezekiel (200), Daniel (7), Hosea (39), Joel (26), Amos (56), Obadiah (6), Jonah (21), Micah (35), Nahum (10), Habakkuk (11), Zephaniah (27), Haggai (24), Zechariah (102), Malachi (38)

Strong's Lexicon — Y