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How to pronounce jehovah in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms jahvey, jahweh, jhvh, wahvey, yahve, yahveh, yahwe, yahweh, yhvh, yhwh
Type Words
Synonyms almighty, creator, divine, god almighty, godhead, lord, maker
Has types hypostasis, hypostasis of christ, sacred trinity, trinity, holy trinity, blessed trinity

Examples of jehovah

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Jehovah has been a popular English word for the personal name of God for several centuries.
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Jehovah appears in Tyndale's Bible, the King James Version, and other translations from that time period and later.
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Jehovah has called you home.
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  • Yahweh: a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
  • Godhead: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
  • Jehovah (/du0292u1D7Bu02C8hou028Avu0259/ ju0259-HOH-vu0259) is a Latinization of the Hebrew u05D9u05B0u05D4u05B9u05D5u05B8u05D4, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton u05D9u05D4u05D5u05D4 (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible.
  • The English rendering of the Hebrew consonants, JHVA. This is God's sacred name, used over 7,000 times in the Old Testament. ...
  • The personal name of God the Father. It means "He Causes to Become." He is the only true God, Creator and Sovereign. Jesus is not Jehovah.
  • (Also "Jehovah God.") The name of God, strongly emphasized by Witnesses.
  • Incorrect reading of the proper name of Israel's deity, joining the consonants of YHWH to the vowels of Adonai. A medieval Christian invention, Jehovah became popular in some traditional English translations of the Bible.
  • Another name for Jesus Christ, particularly in the Old Testament.
  • A name for God created by the mistaken conflation of the Hebrew tetragrammaton and the vowel sounds for the liturgical title for God, "Adonai," which should be used instead of the Divine Name in the proclamation of the scriptures during synagogue services.