YHWH · YHWH (with Adonai)

What it means

YHWH (יְהֹוִה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “YHWH (with Adonai)”.

The four letters of God's name, YHWH (see "YHWH"). They almost always go with "Adonai"; then Jews, when reading, said "Elohim" so as not to repeat "Adonai".

Its senses in the Bible

1. God's name when it follows «Adonai» («Lord»), in the phrase «Adonai YHWH».

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

The four letters of God's name, YHWH (see H3068), written with other vowels. BDB lists it as a variant of יְהוָה that comes after אֲדֹנָי, “Adonai”, and that Jews pronounced “Elohim” so as not to repeat the same sound.

• “Adonai YHWH” in prayers Genesis 15:2Deuteronomy 3:242 Samuel 7:18
• “Thus says Adonai YHWH”, in the prophets Ezekiel 2:4Amos 3:7
• “The spirit of Adonai YHWH” Isaiah 61:1

How we translate it

“YHWH” 306 times. It is the same name as H3068, and this edition writes it the same way: “YHWH”. The names of God are kept as they stand in the original, transliterated, instead of being replaced by a title; so אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה is “Adonai YHWH”.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×1
• Judges×2
• 2 Samuel×7
• 1 Kings×2
• Psalms×8
• Isaiah×25
• Jeremiah×14
• Ezekiel×217
• Amos×21
• Obadiah×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 15:2

  But Abram said, “Adonai YHWH, what will you give me, while I go on childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

• Genesis 15:8

  But he said, “Adonai YHWH, how will I know that I will possess it?”

• Deuteronomy 3:24

  “Adonai YHWH, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand; for what god is there in the heavens or on the earth who can do according to your works and according to your mighty deeds?

• Deuteronomy 9:26

  I prayed to YHWH and said, “Adonai YHWH, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, whom you ransomed by your greatness, whom you brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.

• Joshua 7:7

  And Joshua said, “Alas, Adonai YHWH! Why did you bring this people all the way across the Jordan to give us into the hand of the Amorite, to make us perish? If only we had been content to stay beyond the Jordan!

• Judges 6:22

  Gideon saw that he was the angel of YHWH, and Gideon said, “Alas, Adonai YHWH! For because of this I have seen the angel of YHWH face to face.”

• Judges 16:28

  And Samson called to YHWH and said, “Adonai YHWH, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this time, O Elohim, that I may take one vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes.”

• 2 Samuel 7:18

  Then King David went in and sat before YHWH and said, “Who am I, Adonai YHWH, and who is my house, that you have brought me this far?

• 2 Samuel 7:19

  And this was still small in your eyes, Adonai YHWH; and you have spoken also of the house of your servant for a long time to come; and this is the manner of humankind, Adonai YHWH!

• 2 Samuel 7:20

  And what can David add further to say to you? You know your servant, Adonai YHWH.

• 2 Samuel 7:22

  Therefore you are great, Adonai YHWH; for there is none like you, and there is no Elohim besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

• 2 Samuel 7:28

  And now, Adonai YHWH, you are Elohim, and your words are truth, and you have spoken to your servant this good thing.

• 2 Samuel 7:29

  And now, be pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may be forever before you; for you, Adonai YHWH, have spoken, and with your blessing let the house of your servant be blessed forever.”

• 1 Kings 2:26

  And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your fields, for you deserve death; but on this day I will not put you to death, because you carried the ark of Adonai YHWH before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all that my father was afflicted.”

• 1 Kings 8:53

  For you separated them for yourself as an inheritance from all the peoples of the earth, as you spoke by means of Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Adonai YHWH.”

• Psalms 68:20

  The El is for us an El of salvations, and to YHWH Adonai belong the ways out from death.

• Psalms 69:6

  Let not those who wait for you be ashamed because of me, Adonai YHWH Tsevaot; let not those who seek you be humiliated because of me, Elohim of Israel.

• Psalms 71:5

  For you are my hope, Adonai YHWH, my confidence from my youth.

• Psalms 71:16

  I will come with the mighty acts of Adonai YHWH; I will bring to remembrance your righteousness, yours alone.

• Psalms 73:28

  But as for me, the nearness of Elohim to me is good; I have placed my refuge in Adonai YHWH, to recount all your works.

• Psalms 109:21

  But you, YHWH Adonai, deal with me for the sake of your name; for your loyal love is good, deliver me.

• Psalms 140:7

  YHWH Adonai, strength of my salvation, you have covered my head on the day of weapons.

• Psalms 141:8

  For to you, YHWH Adonai, are my eyes; in you I take refuge; do not pour out my soul.

• Isaiah 3:15

  What right have you that you crush my people and grind the face of the afflicted? declares Adonai YHWH Tsevaot.

• Isaiah 7:7

  thus says Adonai YHWH: It will not stand, and it will not come to pass.

• Isaiah 10:23

  For Adonai YHWH Tsevaot is making an extermination, and it is decreed, in the midst of all the earth.

• Isaiah 10:24

  Therefore, thus says Adonai YHWH Tsevaot: Do not be afraid, my people who dwell in Zion, of Assyria, when he strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you in the manner of Egypt.

• Isaiah 22:5

  For it is a day of panic and of trampling and of confusion from Adonai YHWH Tsevaot in the valley of Vision, a battering down of the wall and a cry to the mountain.

• Isaiah 22:12

  And Adonai YHWH Tsevaot called on that day to weeping and to lamentation and to baldness and to girding on sackcloth.

• Isaiah 22:14

  And YHWH Tsevaot revealed himself in my ears: “Certainly not will this iniquity be expiated for you until you die,” says Adonai YHWH Tsevaot.

• Isaiah 22:15

  Thus says Adonai YHWH Tsevaot: “Go, come to that steward, to Shebna, who is over the house:

• Isaiah 25:8

  He will swallow up death forever, and Adonai YHWH will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will remove from all the earth, for YHWH has spoken.

• Isaiah 28:16

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: “Look, I have laid as a foundation in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a foundation well founded; the one who believes will not hurry.

• Isaiah 28:22

  And now do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for an extermination, and one decreed, I have heard from Adonai YHWH Tsevaot upon all the earth.

• Isaiah 30:15

  For thus says Adonai YHWH, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you will be saved; in quietness and in trust will be your might.” But you were not willing,

• Isaiah 40:10

  Look, Adonai YHWH comes with might, and his arm rules for him; look, his reward is with him, and his wages before him.

• Isaiah 48:16

  Come near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it came to be, I was there.” And now Adonai YHWH has sent me, and his spirit.

• Isaiah 49:22

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: “Look, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and to the peoples I will raise my banner; and they will bring your sons in the bosom, and your daughters will be carried on the shoulder.

• Isaiah 50:4

  Adonai YHWH has given me a tongue of disciples, to know how to sustain the weary with a word; he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear like disciples.

• Isaiah 50:5

  Adonai YHWH has opened my ear, and I did not rebel; I did not turn back.

And 266 more times.