Jehovah

Jehovah {IPA : |dʒɨˈhoʊvə} is an anglicized respresentation of "the proper name of God" in Judaism and Christianity. It is a transliteration of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה‎, a vocalization of the sacred Tetragrammaton יהוה, the name that, according to the Bible, God revealed to his people. יְהֹוָה appears 6,518 times in the traditional Masoretic Text, in addition to 305 instances of יֱהֹוִה (Jehovih). The earliest available Latin text to use a vocalization similar to Jehovah dates from the 13th century. Other commonly used variants include Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahvey, Jahweh, JHVH.

Attributed

• And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Jehovah: And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
  • Exodus 6:2-3, text written by Moses or possibly Ezra according to the documentary hypothesis

• And Jehovah proceeded to answer Job out of the windstorm and say:
  “Who is this that is obscuring counsel
  By words without knowledge?
  Gird up your loins, please, like an able-bodied man,
  And let me question you, and you inform me.
  Where did you happen to be when I founded the earth?
  Tell [me], if you do know understanding.
  • Book of Job, 38:1- 4

• And Jehovah went on to answer Job out of the windstorm and say: “Gird up your loins, please, like an able-bodied man; I shall question you, and you inform me. Really, will you invalidate my justice? Will you pronounce me wicked in order that you may be in the right?
  • Book of Job 40:6-8

• My name is Jehovah, and I know the end from the beginning.
  • The Book of Abraham 2:8 in the Pearl of Great Price

• Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
  • Amos 3:6

• "YOU are my witnesses," is the utterance of Jehovah, "and I am God"
  • Isaiah 43:12

• This is my Son, the beloved; listen to him.
  • Mark 9:7

Quotes about Jehovah

• Men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
  • David, Psalms 83:18

• O Jehovah, you have searched through me, and you know [me].

You yourself have come to know my sitting down and my rising up.

You have considered my thought from far off.

• • Psalms 139:1,2

• In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress!
  • Ethan Allen, in a reported reply as to by what authority he demanded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga, as recounted in A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity (1779).

External links

• Jehovah. Christian Answers Network.
• Yĕhovah (Strong's H3068)