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Strong's numbers

יְהֹוָה H3068

Yᵉhôvâh

yeh-ho-vaw'

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

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

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

5521 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Job 42:11
    Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
  • Job 42:12
    So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
  • Psalms 1:2
    But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
  • Psalms 1:6
    For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
  • Psalms 2:2
    The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
  • Psalms 2:7
    I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
  • Psalms 2:11
    Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
  • Psalms 3:1
    A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
  • Psalms 3:3
    But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
  • Psalms 3:4
    I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.