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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 certainly known.] A Scripture name of the Supreme Being by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the ``ineffable name'' of the Supreme Being which was not pronounced by the Jews. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yahweh \Yah"weh\, Yahwe \Yah"we\, n. Also Jahveh \Jah"veh\, Jahve \Jah"ve\, etc A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated {Jehovah} in the Bible; -- used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or {Yahwe} is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Jehovah n 1: a name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH [syn: {Yahweh}, {Yahwe}, {Yahveh}, {Yahve}, {Wahvey}, {Jahvey}, {Jahweh}, {Jehovah}] 2: the Christian god [syn: {Godhead}, {Lord}, {Creator}, {Divine}, {God Almighty}, {Almighty}, {Jehovah}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Jehovah the special and significant name (not merely an appellative title such as Lord [adonai]) by which God revealed himself to the ancient Hebrews (Ex. 6:2, 3). This name the Tetragrammaton of the Greeks, was held by the later Jews to be so sacred that it was never pronounced except by the high priest on the great Day of Atonement, when he entered into the most holy place Whenever this name occurred in the sacred books they pronounced it as they still do Adonai" (i.e., Lord), thus using another word in its stead. The Massorets gave to it the vowel-points appropriate to this word This Jewish practice was founded on a false interpretation of Lev. 24:16. The meaning of the word appears from Ex 3:14 to be "the unchanging, eternal, self-existent God," the "I am that I am," a convenant-keeping God. (Comp. Mal. 3:6; Hos. 12:5; Rev. 1:4, 8.) The Hebrew name Jehovah" is generally translated in the Authorized Version (and the Revised Version has not departed from this rule) by the word LORD printed in small capitals, to distinguish it from the rendering of the Hebrew _Adonai_ and the Greek _Kurios_, which are also rendered Lord, but printed in the usual type The Hebrew word is translated Jehovah" only in Ex 6:3; Ps 83:18; Isa. 12:2; 26:4, and in the compound names mentioned below. It is worthy of notice that this name is never used in the LXX., the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Apocrypha, or in the New Testament. It is found however, on the "Moabite stone" (q.v.), and consequently it must have been in the days of Mesba so commonly pronounced by the Hebrews as to be familiar to their heathen neighbours. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Jehovah, self-subsisting
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