Jehovah
thumb|"Jehovah" at Book of Exodus|Exodus 6:3 (1611 [[King James Version)]] Jehovah () is a Latinization of the Hebrew , one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew BibleOld Testament. The Tetragrammaton is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God's name in Christianity.
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Jehovah is a Latinized form of the Hebrew name for God (YHWH) that appears in the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. This name is considered sacred in both Judaism, where it's one of seven divine names, and in Christianity, where it represents a form of God's name.
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- Pronunciation
- Development
- Vowel points of {{lang|hbo|{{Script/Hebrew|יְהֹוָה}}}} and {{lang|hbo|{{Script/Hebrew|אֲדֹנָי}}}}
- Introduction into English
- Hebrew vowel points
- Proponents of pre-Christian origin
- Proponents of later origin
- Early modern arguments
- Discourses rejecting ''Jehovah''
- Discourses defending ''Jehovah''
- Summary of discourses
- Usage in English Bible translations{{Anchor|Usage in English}}
- Non-usage
- Other usage
- Similar Greek names
- Ancient
- Modern
- Similar Latin and English transcriptions
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|"Jehovah" at Book of Exodus|Exodus 6:3 (1611 [[King James Version)]] Jehovah () is a Latinization of the Hebrew , one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew BibleOld Testament. The Tetragrammaton is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God's name in Christianity.
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 ('my Lord'). The Hebrew vowel points of were added to the Tetragrammaton by the Masoretes, and the resulting form was transliterated around the 12th century CE as Yehowah. The derived form Iehovah first appeared in the 16th century. The form Jehovah began to printed following a 17th-century development leading J to become a separate letter for printing the consonantal I.