Jehovah Jireh Means “The Lord Will Provide” — and Abraham Said It Afterwards

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  • Jehovah Jireh means “the Lord will provide”. The Hebrew يهوه يرأه joins the divine name to a verb meaning to see, and so to see to something.
  • “Jehovah” is a later vocalisation of the divine name; Yahweh-Yireh is the same phrase, and English Bibles usually print LORD in capitals.
  • It comes from Genesis 22:14, spoken by Abraham after the ram was found in the thicket — named afterwards, looking back, not on the way up.
  • It promises neither money nor a particular outcome. Abraham was not spared the three days’ walk or his son’s question, and the provision came at the last moment and was not what he had asked for.
  • What it promises is that God sees. The chapter leaves behind a saying — “on the mountain of the Lord it will be provided” — that Christians have never read without thinking of another hill.

Jehovah Jireh means the Lord will provide. It comes from a single verse in Genesis, and the man who said it had just been through the worst three days of his life. The phrase is not a slogan about finances. It is a place-name, given by a father on a mountain, and where it comes from changes what it means. What does Jehovah Jireh mean? The Hebrew is YHWH yir’eh — the divine name joined to a verb meaning to…

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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Genesis 22:1-14). The Hebrew is YHWH yir’eh, from the verb ra’ah, “to see”; “Jehovah” is a later vocalisation of the divine name.

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