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Exodus 12:36
“And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâh · yeh-ho-vaw'
H3068 · Hebrew
H3068 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- Derivation
- from H1961 (הָיָה); (the) self-Existent or Eternal;
- KJV renderings
- Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050 (יָהּ), H3069 (יְהֹוִה).
- Grammar
- וַֽ — conjunction
- יהוָ֞ה — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 6,521 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:4Genesis 2:5Genesis 2:7Genesis 2:8Genesis 2:9
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יְהֹוָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.