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Jeremiah 29:26
“The Lord hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the Lord, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.” (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.