Jehovah

Meanings

Proper Noun

• The personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; in Hebrew, יהוה

Noun

• A Jehovah's Witness.

Origin

• Transliteration of Hebrew יְהֹוָה, the Masoretic vocalization of the Biblical Hebrew יהוה (variously pronounced).
• 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 ('Adonai').
• 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 ' in this verse specifically, while it uses ' otherwise. Young's Literal Translation (1898) has Jehovah. The New King James Version (1982) has ''''.