LORD
יהוה · ye.ho.vah · H3068Gκύριος · kurios · G2962G29 other spellings1003 mentions in 43 books, most in Ezekiel (217)
Who they were
The Bible uses a wide variety of names and titles to refer to God, each carrying specific meaning and significance. These names and titles reveal different aspects of God's character, attributes, and His relationship with humanity.
LORD (Yahweh): The personal name of God, often translated as "LORD" (all capitals) in English Bibles, emphasizing His self-existence, eternality, and covenant relationship with His people (Exodus 3:14-15).
God (Elohim): A general term for God, highlighting His power, sovereignty, and majesty (Genesis 1:1).
Lord (Adonai): A title emphasizing God's authority and lordship (Genesis 15:2).
Almighty (Shaddai): A name depicting God's all-sufficiency and power (Genesis 17:1).
Most High (Elyon): A title stressing God's supremacy and sovereignty (Genesis 14:18-20).
Everlasting (Olam): A name emphasizing God's eternal nature (Genesis 21:33).
Jealous (Qanna): A name revealing God's zeal for His own glory and His people's devotion (Exodus 34:14).
LORD of Hosts (Yahweh Sabaoth): A title portraying God as the commander of heavenly armies (1Sa.1.3).
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1003 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Genesis28 mentions
Genesis 1:1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.Genesis 2:4This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.Genesis 14:18Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.Genesis 14:19He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.Genesis 14:20Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.Genesis 14:22Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,Genesis 15:2Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”Genesis 15:8He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”Genesis 16:13She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.Genesis 18:27Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.Genesis 18:30He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”Genesis 18:31He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”Genesis 18:32He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”Genesis 19:18Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.Genesis 20:4Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?Genesis 21:33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.Genesis 22:14Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”Genesis 28:3May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,Genesis 31:13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”Genesis 33:20He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.Genesis 35:1God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”Genesis 35:3Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”Genesis 35:11God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.Genesis 43:14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”Genesis 46:3He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.Genesis 48:3Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,Genesis 49:25even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and…
Exodus12 mentions
Exodus 4:10Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”Exodus 4:13Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”Exodus 5:22Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?Exodus 6:3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.Exodus 15:2Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.Exodus 15:17You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in: the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have…Exodus 17:15Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.Exodus 17:16He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”Exodus 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth…Exodus 34:6Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,Exodus 34:9He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your…Exodus 34:14for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Numbers11 mentions
Numbers 12:13Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”Numbers 14:17Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,Numbers 16:22They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”Numbers 23:8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?Numbers 23:22God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.Numbers 23:23Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’Numbers 24:4he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:Numbers 24:8God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.Numbers 24:16he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:Numbers 24:23He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this?
Deuteronomy13 mentions
Deuteronomy 3:24“Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?Deuteronomy 4:24For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.Deuteronomy 4:31For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.Deuteronomy 5:9You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth…Deuteronomy 6:15for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 7:9Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments,Deuteronomy 7:21You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.Deuteronomy 9:26I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty…Deuteronomy 10:17For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.Deuteronomy 32:18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.Deuteronomy 33:26“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.
Joshua7 mentions
Joshua 3:10Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the…Joshua 3:11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.Joshua 3:13It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be…Joshua 7:7Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been…Joshua 7:8Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?Joshua 22:22“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),Joshua 24:19Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.
Judges5 mentions
Judges 6:15He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”Judges 6:22Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”Judges 6:24Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it “Yahweh is Peace.” To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.Judges 13:8Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born.”Judges 16:28Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”
Ruth2 mentions
1 Samuel7 mentions
1 Samuel 1:3This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.1 Samuel 1:11She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy…1 Samuel 2:3“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.1 Samuel 4:4So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there…1 Samuel 10:5“After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets…1 Samuel 15:2Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up out of Egypt.1 Samuel 17:45Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom…
2 Samuel18 mentions
2 Samuel 5:10David grew greater and greater, for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him.2 Samuel 6:2David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits above…2 Samuel 6:18When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies.2 Samuel 7:8Now therefore tell my servant David this: ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.2 Samuel 7:18Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?2 Samuel 7:19This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh, but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!2 Samuel 7:20What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.2 Samuel 7:22Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.2 Samuel 7:26Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’2 Samuel 7:27For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.2 Samuel 7:28“Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.2 Samuel 7:29Now therefore, let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed…2 Samuel 22:14Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.2 Samuel 22:31As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.2 Samuel 22:32For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?2 Samuel 22:33God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect.2 Samuel 22:48even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me,2 Samuel 23:5Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?
1 Kings8 mentions
1 Kings 2:26To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark…1 Kings 3:10This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.1 Kings 3:15Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a…1 Kings 8:53For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”1 Kings 18:15Elijah said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”1 Kings 19:10He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword.…1 Kings 19:14He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword.…1 Kings 22:6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for…
2 Kings3 mentions
2 Kings 3:14Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.2 Kings 7:6For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of…2 Kings 19:23By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I…
1 Chronicles4 mentions
1 Chronicles 11:9David grew greater and greater, for Yahweh of Armies was with him.1 Chronicles 17:7“Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.1 Chronicles 17:24Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’1 Chronicles 27:3He was of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.
Nehemiah5 mentions
Nehemiah 1:5and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,Nehemiah 1:11Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and…Nehemiah 4:14I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your…Nehemiah 9:31“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you that has come on us, on our…
Job74 mentions
Job 5:8“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,Job 5:17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.Job 6:14“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?Job 8:5If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.Job 8:13So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,Job 8:20“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.Job 9:2“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?Job 11:7“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.Job 13:3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.Job 13:7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?Job 13:8Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?Job 15:4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.Job 15:11Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?Job 15:13that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?Job 15:25Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,Job 16:11God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.Job 18:21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?Job 20:15He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.Job 20:29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”Job 21:14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’Job 21:20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.Job 21:22“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?Job 22:2“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.Job 22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?Job 22:13You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?Job 22:17who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.Job 22:25The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.Job 22:26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.Job 23:16For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.Job 24:1“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
Psalms185 mentions
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Isaiah118 mentions
1:91:242:123:13:153:173:184:45:75:95:165:246:16:36:56:86:117:77:147:208:78:108:138:189:59:79:89:139:179:1910:1210:1610:2110:2310:2410:2610:3311:1112:213:413:613:1314:1314:1414:2214:2314:2414:2717:318:719:419:1219:1619:1719:1819:2019:2521:621:821:1021:1622:522:1222:1422:1522:2523:924:2325:625:826:428:228:528:1628:2228:2929:629:1330:1530:20 +38 more in the reader
Jeremiah92 mentions
1:62:192:224:105:146:66:97:37:207:218:39:79:159:1710:1611:1711:2011:2214:1315:1616:919:319:1119:1520:1223:623:1523:1623:3625:825:2725:2825:2925:3226:1827:427:1827:1927:2128:228:1429:429:829:1729:2129:2530:831:2331:3532:1432:1532:1732:1832:2533:1133:1233:1635:1335:1735:1835:1938:1739:1642:1542:1843:1044:244:744:1144:2544:2646:1046:1846:2548:148:1549:549:749:2649:35 +12 more in the reader
Ezekiel217 mentions
1:242:43:113:274:145:55:75:85:116:36:117:27:58:19:810:511:711:811:1311:1611:1711:2112:1012:1912:2312:2512:2813:313:813:913:1313:1613:1813:2014:414:614:1114:1414:1614:1814:2014:2114:2315:615:816:316:816:1416:1916:2316:3016:3616:4316:4816:5916:6317:317:917:1617:1917:2218:318:918:2318:2518:2918:3018:3220:320:520:2720:3020:3120:3320:3620:3920:4020:4420:4720:49 +137 more in the reader
Daniel23 mentions
Joel1 mention
Amos29 mentions
Obadiah1 mention
Jonah1 mention
Zechariah48 mentions
Malachi26 mentions
1 Corinthians1 mention
Galatians1 mention
Hebrews1 mention
James1 mention
Revelation1 mention
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