# Is “Yahweh” in the Bible? > Yes. “Yahweh” is in the Bible. It appears 6,857 times in the Lumin Translation, though not in the King James Bible. Source: https://www.lumin.faith/is-it-in-the-bible/yahweh By Andrew Kittridge · October 28, 2026 Yahweh is God’s personal name in the Hebrew Bible. The Lumin Translation writes it out. The King James Version prints it as “the LORD,” and as Jehovah a few times. - Lumin Translation: 6857, first in Genesis 2:4 - King James Version: 0 ## Where it appears 5803 verses in 36 books (Old Testament 6857, New Testament 0). > This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens. > > — [Genesis 2:4](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/2#4) (Lumin Translation) > No shrub of the field was on the earth yet, and no plant of the field had come up yet, because Yahweh God had not made it rain on the earth, and there was no human being to till the ground. > > — [Genesis 2:5](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/2#5) (Lumin Translation) > Then Yahweh God shaped the man out of dust from the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being. > > — [Genesis 2:7](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/2#7) (Lumin Translation) > Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, and there he set the man he had formed. > > — [Genesis 2:8](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/2#8) (Lumin Translation) > Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree grow that was desirable to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. > > — [Genesis 2:9](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/2#9) (Lumin Translation) ## Common questions ### Is “Yahweh” in the Bible? Yes. “Yahweh” is in the Bible. It appears 6,857 times in the Lumin Translation, though not in the King James Bible. Yahweh is God’s personal name in the Hebrew Bible. The Lumin Translation writes it out. The King James Version prints it as “the LORD,” and as Jehovah a few times. ### How many times is “Yahweh” in the Bible? Yahweh appears 6,857 times in the Lumin Translation, and not in the King James Bible. Counts are of exact word forms. ### Where is “Yahweh” first mentioned in the Bible? In the Lumin Translation, yahweh first appears in Genesis 2:4: “This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.” ## More - [Is “Everything happens for a reason” in the Bible?](https://www.lumin.faith/is-it-in-the-bible/everything-happens-for-a-reason.md) - [Is “Charity begins at home” in the Bible?](https://www.lumin.faith/is-it-in-the-bible/charity-begins-at-home.md) - [Is “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day” in the Bible?](https://www.lumin.faith/is-it-in-the-bible/give-a-man-a-fish.md) - [Is “Let go and let God” in the Bible?](https://www.lumin.faith/is-it-in-the-bible/let-go-and-let-god.md) - [Is “Amen” in the Bible?](https://www.lumin.faith/is-it-in-the-bible/amen.md) - [Is “Dinosaur” in the Bible?](https://www.lumin.faith/is-it-in-the-bible/dinosaur.md) - [Is “Halloween” in the Bible?](https://www.lumin.faith/is-it-in-the-bible/halloween.md) - [Is “Rapture” in the Bible?](https://www.lumin.faith/is-it-in-the-bible/rapture.md) - [Check any word or a whole song](https://www.lumin.faith/bible-verse-checker)