Bible word study

Yhwh (Strong’s H3068): Meaning in the Bible

Yhwh (יְהֹוָה) is the Hebrew (proper name) word numbered H3068 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God. In the King James Bible it is translated Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069..

• Original wordיְהֹוָה
• TransliterationYᵉhôvâh
• Pronunciationyeh-ho-vaw'
• Part of speechproper noun (n-pr)
• Strong’s numberH3068
• LanguageHebrew (proper name)

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H1961;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Yhwh appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yhwh (H3068) stands behind 6,512 English renderings in 5,519 verses across 36 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Jeremiah (710), Psalms (682), Deuteronomy (548).

How the King James Bible renders Yhwh, by count

• lord6,396 of 6,512 (98 percent)
• lords108 of 6,512 (2 percent)
• god4 of 6,512 (0 percent)
• jehovah4 of 6,512 (0 percent)

Three places to read Yhwh

• Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
• Judges 17:2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
• Psalms 118:26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

And Christ

The personal name of God, spoken to Moses at the bush, means he simply is, the One who was and is and will be. Christians hear its echo when Jesus says the words I am.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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