Jehovah

Etymology
Transliteration of, the Masoretic vocalization of the Biblical Hebrew (variously pronounced). The Masoretic vocalization is a so-called qere perpetuum, the deliberate insertion of the vowels of another word than the one represented by the consonant text, in this case ('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 .

Proper noun

 * 1)  The personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; in Hebrew,

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Jehovah
 * Albanian: Jehovai
 * Arabic: يَهْوَه, يهوه
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: Xehová
 * Azerbaijani: Yehova
 * Basque: Yahveh
 * Belarusian: Его́ва
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 耶和華
 * Eastern Min: 耶和華, 雅威
 * Hakka: Yâ-fò-fà
 * Hokkien: 耶和華
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: Yehovah
 * Danish: Jehova
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: Jehoova
 * Fijian: Jiova
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: Jeova
 * Galician: Xehová
 * Georgian: იეჰოვა
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: Ιεηωουα
 * Gujarati: યહોવા
 * Gun:
 * Haitian Creole: Jewova
 * Hebrew:
 * Igbo: Jehova, Jehovah
 * Indonesian: Yehuwa
 * Interlingua: Jehovah
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: エホバ
 * Kannada: ಯೆಹೋವಾ
 * Kazakh: Құдай Ие, Иеһова
 * Khmer: យេហូវ៉ា
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: یەهۆوا
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: Iehova, Iova
 * Lithuanian: Jehova
 * Macedonian: Јехо́ва
 * Malagasy:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: Ġeħova
 * Manx: Yahvey
 * Maori: Ihowā
 * Mingrelian: იეჰოვა, ჲაჰვე
 * Mirandese: Jeobá
 * Navajo: Jiihóvah
 * Ossetian: Йегъовӕ
 * Pangasinan: Jehova
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: Yihowa
 * Russian:
 * Rwanda-Rundi: Yehova
 * Samoan: Ieova
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Јехова
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: Javè
 * Spanish:, Jehovah
 * Swahili: Yehova
 * Swedish: Jehova, Jehovah
 * Tagalog: Jehova, Jehovah
 * Tamil: ஜெஹோவா, யாவே
 * Tatar: Йәһвә
 * Telugu: యెహోవా
 * Thai: พระยาห์เวห์, พระเยโฮวาห์, พระยะโฮวา
 * Tongan: Jihova
 * Turkish:, Yehovah
 * Ukrainian: Єго́ва, Ягве
 * Uzbek: Yahova
 * Vietnamese:, Jehovah
 * Welsh: Jehofa
 * Xhosa: uYehova
 * Zulu: uJehova


 * Slovak:

Noun

 * 1)  A Jehovah's Witness.