Jehovah Definition

jĭ-hōvə
noun
God (in some translations of the Old Testament)
Webster's New World
(informal) A Jehovah's Witness.
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pronoun
(religion) The personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; in Hebrew, יהוה (YHVH)
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Noun

Singular:
Jehovah
Plural:
jehovahs

Origin of Jehovah

  • Continuing earlier Iehoua. In English, the name is first attested in 1530, in Tyndale's Bible: I appeared vnto Abraham Isaac and Iacob an allmightie God: but in my name Iehouah was I not knowne vnto them (Exodus 6:3). Tyndale used Iehouah instead of Wycliffe's Adonay. The KJV also has JEHOVAH in this verse specifically, while it uses LORD otherwise. Young's Literal Translation (1898) has Jehovah. The New King James Version (1982) has LORD.

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  • Transliteration of Hebrew יְהֹוָה, the Masoretic vocalization of the Biblical Hebrew יהוה. The Masoretic vocalization is a so-called qeri perpetuum, the deliberate insertion of the vowels of another word than the one represented by the consonant text, in this case אֲדֹנָי (“my lord”).

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  • Blend of the letters of the Tetragrammaton and, with modification, the vowels of Adonai

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Jehovah Sentence Examples

  • North of the city of David, the king, acting under divine guidance, chose a site for the Temple of Jehovah, which was erected with great magnificence by Solomon.

  • This land, held in direct tenure from Jehovah, their sovereign, was in theory inalienable.

  • Is it any wonder then, in verse 21, God gives Him the name Jesus - Jehovah is salvation.

  • The story of the " exodus " is that of the religious birth of " Israel," joined by covenant with the national god Yahweh' whose aid in times of peril and need ' On the name see Jehovah, Tetragrammaton.

  • The form Jehovah was used in the 16th century by many authors, both Catholic and Protestant, and in the 17th was zealously defended by Fuller, Gataker, Leusden and others, against the criticisms of such scholars as Drusius, Cappellus and the elder Buxtorf.

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