Crossword clues for jehovah
The Collaborative International 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 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.
Yahweh \Yah"weh\ (y[aum]"w[e^]), Yahwe \Yah"we\, n. Also Jahveh \Jah"veh\ (y[aum]"w[e^]), 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530, Tyndale's erroneous transliteration of Hebrew Tetragramaton YHWH using vowel points of Adhonai "my lord" (see Yahweh). Used for YHWH (the full name being too sacred for utterance) in four places in the Old Testament in the KJV where the usual translation lord would have been inconvenient; taken as the principal and personal name of God.\n
\nThe vowel substitution was originally made by the Masoretes as a direction to substitute Adhonai for "the ineffable name." European students of Hebrew took this literally, which yielded Latin JeHoVa (first attested in writings of Galatinus, confessor to Leo X, 1516). Jehovah's Witnesses "member of Watchtower Bible and Tract Society" first attested 1933; the organization founded c.1879 by Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916); the name from Isa. xliii:10.
Wikipedia
Jehovah is a Latinization of the Hebrew , one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible.
The consensus among scholars is that the historical vocalization of the Tetragrammaton at the time of the redaction of the Torah (6th century BCE) is most likely Yahweh. The historical vocalization was lost because in Second Temple Judaism, during the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE, the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton came to be avoided, being substituted with Adonai ("my Lord"). The Hebrew vowel points of Adonai were added to the Tetragrammaton by the Masoretes, and the resulting form was transliterated around the 12th century as Yehowah. The derived forms Iehouah and Jehovah first appeared in the 16th century.
"Jehovah" was popularized in the English-speaking world by William Tyndale and other pioneer English Protestant translations such as the Geneva Bible and the King James Version. It is still used in some translations, such as the New World Translation and Young's Literal Translation, but it is does not appear in most mainstream English translations, as the terms "Lord" or "": used instead, generally indicating that the corresponding Hebrew is Yahweh or YHWH.
Jehovah may refer to:
- Jehovah, a reading of the name of God in Abrahamic religions
- Jehovah 1, an important character in the parody religion, Church of the SubGenius
- Jehovah Wanyonyi, a Kenyan mystic who claims to be God
Usage examples of "jehovah".
Iahu Anat According to some scholars, this was the most ancient name of the Hebrew divinity-a goddess who, over the ages, was changed into the god Yahweh, later called Jehovah.
The Decalog was the first of the Word, promulgated by Jehovah from Mount Sinai by a living voice, and also inscribed on two tables of stone by the finger of God.
Deity for a nobler one, to bring back the Jews to the Elohistic idea in a spiritualized form, and to transform the Jahveh or Jehovah of the times of the Judges into a God of all the earth--universal, one and absolute, that God in spirit and in truth of whom Jesus, the last of the prophets, completed the revelation.
On that holy altar they kindled the fires, Jehovah, which glow in our bosoms for Thee.
The Bible pages bear witness, that Israelites too often tried to make the same fountain give forth sweet waters and bitter, and to grow thistles and grapes on the same stem, by uniting the cults of Jehovah and the Baalim.
But lunatics with a speculative bent can sometimes stumble overly close to certain guarded cosmic secrets and there are spells which even I must answer and obey - not to mention the Unspeakable Name, the Shem-hamphorash, which coerces and compels Jehovah.
After contrasting, with indiscreet wit, the nature of God, and the actions of Jehovah, he concludes: Scilicet ut haec de filio Dei non credenda fuisse, si non scripta essent.
The Jupiter of Mythologic History, the Allah of Alkoran, and the Jehovah of ‘Holy Scripture,’ if entities at all, are assuredly entities that baffle human conception.
Transit, of course, wasn't Hindu - more a mixture of Buddhism and fascism, actually, a stew of Zen and Tantra and Platonism and Gestalt therapy and Poundian economics and what-all else, and neither Krishna nor Allah nor Jehovah nor any other divinity figured in its beliefs.
This was not a wine press, that was not land and vineyard, but Paradise, with old Jehovah Sabaoth sitting on the platform holding a long stick and a penknife and marking his exact obligation to each: how many hampers of grapes each had brought and how many jugs of wine, day after tomorrow when they died, he would offer them—how many jugs of wine, how many cauldrons of food, how many women!
I remember once, back in my undergraduate days, I spent two hours jiving a pair of them, trying like hell to convince them that Vishnu loved them just as much as Jehovah did, and the theory of reincarnation could even be used to explain the Republican Party's political platform, not to mention Richard Nixon's resignation.
Jehovah get ten percent of all rent money spent on this sinful premises tithed back to him.
And you, sly fox: you stand outside the den of the lion, the den of Jehovah, and do not go in.
Beyond this stood inhuman Jerusalem, moated on every side by the commandments of Jehovah.
But then Jehovah himself takes command in what amounts to a tie breaker.