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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.

  • Lamentations 3:59
    O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
  • Lamentations 3:61
    Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
  • Lamentations 3:64
    Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
  • Lamentations 3:66
    Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
  • Lamentations 4:11
    The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
  • Lamentations 4:16
    The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
  • Lamentations 4:20
    The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
  • Lamentations 5:1
    Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
  • Lamentations 5:19
    Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
  • Lamentations 5:21
    Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.