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Jeremiah 16:19
“O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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
- יְהוָ֞ה — 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.