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The names of God

Yahweh / Jehovah: to exist, be (Exodus 3:14-15)
YHVH comes from the Hebrew verb "to be" and is the special name that God revealed to Moses at the burning bush. Therefore, YHVH declares God's absolute being - the source of everything, without beginning and without end.

God replied to Moses, “I Am Who I Am. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you.” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh, the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you. This is my eternal name, my name to remember for all generations.


§ Yahweh Jireh: The Lord will provide (Genesis 22:14)
o Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”


§ Yahweh Nissi: He is your Victory (Exodus 17:15)
o Moses built an altar there and named it Yahweh-nissi (which means “the Lord is my banner”).


§ Yahweh Shalom: He is your Peace (Judges 6:24)

o And Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and named it Yahweh-Shalom (which means “the Lord is peace”). The altar remains in Ophrah in the land of the clan of Abiezer to this day.


§ Yahweh Sabbaoth: He is your Deliverer (1 Samuel 17:45)

o David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.



§ Yahweh Mekaddesh: He makes you Holy (Exodus 31:13)

o “Tell the people of Israel: ‘Be careful to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you from generation to generation. It is given so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy.



§ Yahweh Ro’i: The Lord my Shepherd (Psalm 23:1)

o The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need.



§ Yahweh Tsidkenu: The Lord our Righteousness. (Jeremiah 23:6)

o And this will be his name: ‘The Lord Is Our Righteousness.’ In that day Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety.



§ Yahweh Shammah: The Lord is there (Ezekiel 48:35)

o “The distance around the entire city will be 6 miles. And from that day the name of the city will be ‘The Lord Is There.’”



§ Yahweh Rophe: The Lord Who Heals (Exodus 15:26)

o He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you.”

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