Iehova

Concepts

Jehovah

Yahweh

YHVH

YHWH

Yahveh

Adonai

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Synonyms

Dominus

Iehovah

Translations

Jehová

Geova

Jéhovah

Jehova

Jahua

Jeová

Ιεχωβά

Jahwe

Γιαχβέ

يهوه

يَهْوَه

Yahveh

Jehovà

Pronounced as (IPA)

[jeˈ(ɦ)oː.wa]

Etymology

Traditional reading of the Biblical Biblical Hebrew יהוה (IHVH), based on the qeri perpetuum found in the Masoretic text (ca. 7th to 10th century).
Attested in print from at least 1514, but used in the 15th century (by Nicholas of Cusa, d. 1464.http://books.google.com/books?id=n2LXNLmKilEC&dq=%22Haec%20accurata%20recognitio%20trium%22&pg=PT8#v=onepage&q&f=false).
The transcription has earlier (medieval, and even ancient) origins; found as Johouah (and variants) in Raymond Martin (1278). The Greek equivalent ΙΕΗΩΟΥΑ is found even in Late Antiquity, in the Pistis Sophia (perhaps a 2nd century text, extant in 5th or 6th century manuscripts).