Jehovah
pronunciation
How to pronounce Jehovah in British English:
UK [dʒɪˈhəʊvə]
How to pronounce Jehovah in American English:
US [dʒɪˈhoʊvə]
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- Noun:
- a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
- terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
Word Origin
- Jehovah
- 1530, Tyndale's erroneous transliteration of Hebrew Tetragramaton YHWH using vowel points of Adhonai "my lord" (see Yahweh). Used for YHWH (the full name being too sacred for utterance) in four places in the Old Testament in the KJV where the usual translation lord would have been inconvenient; taken as the principal and personal name of God. The vowel substitution was originally made by the Masoretes as a direction to substitute Adhonai for "the ineffable name." European students of Hebrew took this literally, which yielded Latin JeHoVa (first attested in writings of Galatinus, confessor to Leo X, 1516). Jehovah's Witnesses "member of Watchtower Bible and Tract Society" first attested 1933; the organization founded c. 1879 by Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916); the name from Isa. xliii:10.
Example
- 1. Faith clothes me with the power of jehovah .
- 2. Jehovah 's witnesses came in second .
- 3. Oh , to be still and know that jehovah is god !
- 4. Jackson was raised a jehovah 's witness , forbidden from following funeral customs that are not mentioned in the bible .
- 5. Most are jehovah 's witnesses or baptists , whose colourful meeting places sit together on a hillside looking into guatemala .