Jehovah

Jehovah
noun Etymology: New Latin, reading (as Yĕhōwāh) of Hebrew yhwh Yahweh with the vowel points of 'adhōnāy my lord Date: 1530 god 1

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  • Jehovah — is an English reading of (second instance), ] and although seriously critiqued by John Drusius in 1604 A.D.,See Pages 209 210 of Gerard Gertoux s book: The name of God Y.EH.OW.AH which is pronounced as it is written I EH OU AH ] and later… …   Wikipedia

  • JÉHOVAH — Barbarisme pris pour le nom propre de Dieu chez les Juifs. Le tétragramme divin YHWH se lisait très probablement à l’origine YaHWeH , à une époque où les voyelles hébraïques n’étaient pas notées. Cependant, par respect pour leur divinité, les… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Jehovah — Jehovah, der da ist, war und sein wird, der erhabenste hebräische Ausdruck für Gott, den Ewigen, Unveränderlichen, Treuen, der Name des höchsten Wesens, bei welchem man schwur, den die Rabbiner für so heilig hielten, daß er nur von den Priestern… …   Damen Conversations Lexikon

  • Jehovah — 1530, Tyndale s erroneous transliteration of Hebrew Tetragramaton YHWH using vowel points of Adhonai my lord (see YAHWEH (Cf. Yahweh)). Used for YHWH (the full name being too sacred for utterance) in four places in the Old Testament in the KJV… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Jehovah — Je*ho vah, n. [Heb. usually y[e^]h[=o]v[=a]h (with the vowel points of [a^]d[=o]n[=a]i Lord), sometimes (to avoid repetition) y[e^]h[=o]vih (with the vowel points of [e^]l[=o]h[=i]m God); but only the four Heb, consonants yhvh are conceded to be… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Jehovah 1 — or JHVH 1, also known as Woden , Ra , etc. is an important character in the mythology of the Church of the SubGenius.This wrathful alien space god from some corporate sin galaxy is considered to be identical with the god of the Abrahamic and most …   Wikipedia

  • Jehovāh — (eigentlich Jehaveh, d.i. der da ist, war, sein wird), Benennung des hebräischen Nationalgottes, bei welchem die Eide abgelegt wurden. Der Name soll von Ägypten u. zwar von dem Gott Jao (s.d.) zu den Juden gekommen u. von Moses nationalisirt… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Jehovah — • Proper name of God in the Old Testament Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Jehovah — eller Jahve er den israelistiske Gud …   Danske encyklopædi

  • Jehovah — blitzte um Saulum und warf den Reiter sammt dem Gaul um …   Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon

  • Jehovah — ► NOUN ▪ a form of the Hebrew name of God used in some translations of the Bible. ORIGIN Latin Iehouah, Iehoua, from Hebrew …   English terms dictionary

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