Jehovah

Meaning

Name

A transliteration of the Masoretic pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.

Noun

A Jehovah's Witness.

Synonyms

Yahweh

YHVH

Almighty

Creator

Divine

God Almighty

Lord

Maker

Yahveh

Godhead

JHVH

Jahvey

Jahweh

Wahvey

YHWH

Yahve

Yahwe

Translations

Jéhovah

Jehová

Jehova

Geova

Iehova

Jehova

Jeová

Jahua

Jehovà

créateur

Ιεχωβά

θεός

Zeugen Jehovas

Déu Totpoderós

Pronounced as (IPA)

/d͡ʒə.ˈ hoʊ.və/

Etymology

Transliteration of Hebrew יְהֹוָה (yəhōwā), the Masoretic vocalization of the Biblical Hebrew יהוה (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 אֲדֹנָי (“my lord”) ('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 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.