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Jehovah (pronounced /dʒɨˈhoʊvə/) is an English reading of יְהֹוָה, the most frequent form of the [[Tetragrammaton]] יהוה, the name of God in the [[Hebrew]] Bible. It is a direct phonetic transliteration based on the Hebrew Bible text with vowel points handed down by the Masoretes. Jehovah is the English rendition of the [[Hebrew]] Yahovah. Many scholars use the name [[Yahweh]] over Jehovah claiming that it is closer to the original. Many names in the bible use 'Jeho' in them, proving that the Hebrews used the name Jehovah and not [[Yahweh]]. | Jehovah (pronounced /dʒɨˈhoʊvə/) is an English reading of יְהֹוָה, the most frequent form of the [[Tetragrammaton]] יהוה, the name of God in the [[Hebrew]] Bible. It is a direct phonetic transliteration based on the Hebrew Bible text with vowel points handed down by the Masoretes. Jehovah is the English rendition of the [[Hebrew]] Yahovah. Many scholars use the name [[Yahweh]] over Jehovah claiming that it is closer to the original. Many names in the bible use 'Jeho' in them, proving that the Hebrews used the name Jehovah and not [[Yahweh]]. | ||
The name Jehovah is translated into the King James Bible as the [[LORD]], in capitals. The name Jehovee is [[GOD]], in capitals. Elohim is [[God]], and Adonai is [[Lord]]. | The name Jehovah is translated into the King James Bible as the [[LORD]], in capitals. The name Jehovee is [[GOD]], in capitals. Elohim is [[God]], and Adonai is [[Lord]]. | ||
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| + | ===Discourses rejecting ''Jehovah''=== | ||
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| + | |valign=top align=left|John [[Drusius]] (Johannes Van den Driesche) (1550-1616) | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left|''Tetragrammaton, sive de Nomine Die proprio, quod Tetragrammaton vocant'' (1604) | ||
| + | |Drusius stated "Galatinus first led us to this mistake ... I know [of] nobody who read [it] thus earlier..").[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1550-3283%28190801%2912%3A1%3C34%3ANOTNY%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V&size=LARGE]<br /> An editor of Drusius in 1698 knows of an earlier reading in Porchetus de Salvaticis however.[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1062-0516%28191110%2928%3A1%3C56%3ANOTN%5B%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage]<br /><!--According to [http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/264290/BDBYahwehtrimmed.jpg the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon], יְהֹוָה (Qr אֲדֹנָי) occurs 6518 times, and יֱהֹוִה (Qr אֱלֹהִים) occurs 305 times in the Masoretic Text. [already in article, not directly related to Drusius]-->John Drusius wrote that neither יְהֹוָה nor יֱהֹוִה accurately represented God's name.<sup>[]</sup> | ||
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| + | |valign=top align=left|[[Sixtinus Amama]] (1593–1659)<sup>[]</sup> | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left|''De nomine tetragrammato'' (1628) [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1550-3283%28190801%2912%3A1%3C34%3ANOTNY%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V&size=LARGE] | ||
| + | |Sixtinus Amama, was a Professor of Hebrew in the University of Franeker. A pupil of Drusius. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1550-3283%28190801%2912%3A1%3C34%3ANOTNY%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V&size=LARGE] | ||
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| + | |valign=top align=left|[[Louis Cappel]] (1585–1658) | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left|''De nomine tetragrammato'' (1624) | ||
| + | |Lewis Cappel reached the conclusion that Hebrew vowel points were not part of the original Hebrew language. This view was strongly contested by John Buxtorff the elder and his son. | ||
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| + | |valign=top align=left|[[James Altingius]] (1618–1679) | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left|[http://books.google.com/books?id=oKsAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=james+altingius&source=web&ots=SFp-k1W5sW&sig=jl5uWSLgraEBzL_fap1YuHQlKy8 ''Exercitatio grammatica de punctis ac pronunciatione tetragrammati''] | ||
| + | |James Altingius was a learned German divine. [http://books.google.com/books?id=oKsAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=james+altingius&source=web&ots=SFp-k1W5sW&sig=jl5uWSLgraEBzL_fap1YuHQlKy8]| | ||
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| + | ===Discourses defending ''Jehovah''=== | ||
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| + | |valign=top align=left|[[Nicholas Fuller]] (1557–1626) | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left| ''Dissertatio de nomine יהוה'' | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left|Nicholas was a Hebraist and a theologian. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101010234/] | ||
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| + | |valign=top align=left|[[Johannes Buxtorf|John Buxtorf]] (1564–1629) | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left|''Disserto de nomine JHVH'' (1620); ''Tiberias, sive Commentarius Masoreticus'' (1664) | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left|John Buxtorf the elder [http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/gatt/criticism/catalog.asp?CN=74] opposed the views of [[Elia Levita]] regarding the late origin (invention by the Masoretes) of the Hebrew vowel points, a subject which gave rise to the controversy between [[Louis Cappel]] and his (e.g. John Buxtorf the elder's) son, [[Johannes Buxtorf II]] the younger. | ||
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| + | |valign=top align=left|[[Johannes Buxtorf II]] (1599–1664) | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left|''Tractatus de punctorum origine, antiquitate, et authoritate, oppositus Arcano puntationis revelato Ludovici Cappelli'' (1648) | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left| Continued his father's arguments that the pronunciation and therefore the Hebrew vowel points resulting in the name ''Jehovah'' have divine inspiration. | ||
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| + | |valign=top align=left|[[Thomas Gataker]] (1574–1654)[http://members.aol.com/EvertonP3/thomasgataker.htm] | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left|''De Nomine Tetragrammato Dissertaio'' (1645) [http://www.apuritansmind.com/MemoirsPuritans/MemoirsPuritansThomasGataker.htm] | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left|See [http://www.apuritansmind.com/MemoirsPuritans/MemoirsPuritansThomasGataker.htm Memoirs of the Puritans Thomas Gataker]. | ||
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| + | |valign=top align=left|[[John Leusden]] (1624–1699) | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left|''Dissertationes tres, de vera lectione nominis Jehova'' | ||
| + | |valign=top align=left| John Leusden wrote three discourses in defense of the name Jehovah. [http://www.apuritansmind.com/MemoirsPuritans/MemoirsPuritansThomasGataker.htm] | ||
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| + | ===Summary of discourses=== | ||
| + | In ''A Dictionary of the Bible'' (1863), [[William Robertson Smith]] summarized these discourses, concluding that "whatever, therefore, be the true pronunciation of the word, there can be little doubt that it is not ''Jehovah''".<sup>[]</sup> Despite this, he consistently uses the name ''Jehovah'' throughout his dictionary and when translating Hebrew names. Some examples include ''Isaiah'' [''Jehovah's help or salvation''], ''Jehoshua'' [''Jehovah a helper''], ''Jehu'' [''Jehovah is He'']. In the entry, ''Jehovah'', Smith writes: "JEHOVAH (יְהֹוָה, usually with the vowel points of אֲדֹנָי; but when the two occur together, the former is pointed יֱהֹוִה, that is with the vowels of אֱלֹהִים, as in Obad. i. 1, Hab. iii. 19:"<sup>[]</sup> This practice is also observed in many modern publications, such as the ''New Compact Bible Dictionary'' (Special Crusade Edition) of 1967 and ''Peloubet's Bible Dictionary'' of 1947. | ||
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| + | ==Usage in English== | ||
| + | The following works render the Tetragrammaton as ''Jehovah'', either exclusively or occasionally: | ||
| + | * [[William Tyndale]], in his 1530 translation of the first five books of the English Bible, at Exodus 6:3 renders the divine name as ''Iehovah''. In his foreword to this edition he wrote: "Iehovah is God's name... Moreover, as oft as thou seeist LORD in great letters (except there be any error in the printing) it is in Hebrew Iehovah." | ||
| + | * The Authorized [[King James Version|King James]] Version, 1611: four times as the personal name of God (in all capitals): Exodus 6:3; Psalm 83:18; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 26:4; and three times in place names: Genesis 22:14; Exodus 17:15; and Judges 6:24. | ||
| + | * [[Young's Literal Translation]] by J.N. Young, 1862, 1898 renders the Tetragrammaton as ''Jehovah'' 6,831 times. | ||
| + | * In the [[Emphatic Diaglott]], 1864, a translation of the New Testament by Benjamin Wilson, the name ''Jehovah'' appears 18 times. | ||
| + | * The [[English Revised Version]], 1885, renders the Tetragrammaton as ''JEHOVAH'' (in all capitals) 12 times, as the personal name of God, in all the places that the King James Version renders it, and also in Exodus 6:2,6,7,8; Psalm 68:20; Isaiah 49:14; Jeremiah 16:21; Habakkuk 3:19. | ||
| + | *The [[Darby Bible]], by [[John Nelson Darby]] renders the Tetragrammaton as ''Jehovah'' 6,810 times. | ||
| + | * The [[American Standard Version]], 1901, renders the Tetragrammaton as ''Je-ho’vah'' in 6,823 places in the Old Testament. | ||
| + | * The Modern Reader's Bible, 1914, by Richard Moulton, uses ''Jehovah'' at Ps.83:18; Ex.6:2-9; Ex.22:14; Ps.68:4; Jerm.16:20; Isa.12:2 and Isa. 26:4. | ||
| + | * The [[New English Bible]], published by Oxford University Press, 1970: e.g. Gen 22:14; Exodus 3:15,16; 6:3; 17:15; Judges 6:24 | ||
| + | * The [[Living Bible]], published by Tyndale House Publishers, Illinois 1971, uses ''Jehovah'' extensively, as in the 1901 American Standard Version, on which it is based. | ||
| + | * [[The Bible in Living English]], by [[Steven T. Byington]], published by the [[Watchtower Bible and Tract Society]], 1972, renders the word ''Jehovah'' throughout the Old Testament, as the proper name for God, over 6,800 times. | ||
| + | * The ''Bible in Today's English'' ([[Good News Bible]]), published by the American Bible Society, 1976, uses ''The Lord'' in its translation, stating in its preface, "the distinctive Hebrew name for God (usually transliterated Jehovah or Yahweh) is in this translation represented by 'The Lord'." A footnote to Exodus 3:14 states, "Yahweh, traditionally transliterated as Jehovah." | ||
| + | * The [[New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures]], published by the [[Watchtower Bible and Tract Society]], 1961 and revised 1984: ''Jehovah'' appears 7,210 times, comprising 6,973 instances in the Old Testament, and 237 times in the New Testament where the Tetragrammaton does not appear in Greek. | ||
| + | * [[Green's Literal Translation]] (1985) by Jay P. Green, Sr., renders the Tetragrammaton as ''Jehovah'' 6,866 times. | ||
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| + | Recent English translations, including the ''[[New Jerusalem Bible]]'' (1985), the ''[[Amplified Bible]]'' (1987), the ''[[New Living Translation]]'' (1996), the ''[[English Standard Version]]'' (2001), and the ''[[Holman Christian Standard Bible]]'' (2004) use Yahweh, rather than Jehovah. | ||
| + | [[Image:JEHOVAH at RomanCatholic Church Martinskirche Olten Switzerland Detail.JPG|thumb|200px|right|The word "Jehovah" displayed in the [[Old Catholic Church|Old Catholic]] St. Martinskirche in [[Olten]], [[Switzerland]], 1521.]] | ||
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| + | Following the [[Middle Ages]], many Catholic churches and public buildings across Europe were decorated with the name, ''Jehovah''. For example, the [[Coat of Arms]] of [[Plymouth#City_Council|Plymouth]] (UK) City Council bears the Latin inscription, "Turris fortissima est nomen Jehova",<sup>[]</sup> derived from Proverbs 18:10. | ||
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| + | ''Jehovah'' has been a popular English word for the personal name of God for several centuries. Christian hymns<sup>[]</sup> feature the name. Some religious groups, notably [[Jehovah's Witnesses]]<sup>[]</sup><sup>[]</sup> and the [[King-James-Only movement]], make prominent use of the name. | ||
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| + | ==Greek and Latin sources== | ||
| + | [[Image:Bible Greek Vamvas Jehovah.JPG|thumb|180px|right|[[Neophytus Vamvas]] (1770-1856), translation of the Bible into modern Greek]] | ||
| + | Under the heading "יהוה c. 6823", the editors of the ''Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon'' write that {{hebrew|יְהֹוָה}} occurs 6,518 times in the [[Masoretic Text]] and that it is read as "Adonai" or "Elohim".<sup>[]</sup> | ||
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| + | ===Greek transcriptions similar to "Jehovah"=== | ||
| + | * ''Ιουώ'' (Iouō, {{IPA-el|juˈo|k}}): ''[[Pistis Sophia]]''<rsup>[]</sup> (2nd century) | ||
| + | * ''Ιεού'' (Ieou, {{IPA-el|jeˈu|k}}): ''Pistis Sophia''<sup>[]</sup> (2nd century) | ||
| + | * ''Ιεηωουά'' (Ie-ee-ōoua): ''Pistis Sophia''<sup>[]</sup> (2nd century) | ||
| + | * ''Ιευώ'' (Ievō): [[Eusebius of Caesarea|Eusebius]]<sup>[]</sup> (c. 315) | ||
| + | * ''Ιεωά'' (Ieōa): [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]] magical texts<sup>[]</sup> (2nd-3rd centuries), M. Kyriakakes<sup>[]</sup> (2000) | ||
| + | * ''Ιεχοβά'' (like Jehova[h]): Paolo Medici<sup>[]</sup> (1755) | ||
| + | * ''Ιεοβά'' (like Je[h]ova[h]): Greek ''[[Torah|Pentateuch]]''<sup>[]</sup> (1833), ''Holy Bible'' translated in modern Greek by [[Neophytus Vamvas]]<sup>[]</sup> (1850) | ||
| + | * ''Ιεχωβά'' (like Jehova[h]): Panagiotes Trempelas<sup>[]</sup> (1958) | ||
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| + | ===Latin and English transcriptions similar to "Jehovah"=== | ||
| + | [[Image:JEHOVA Raymundus Pugio Fidei 1270 a.png|thumb|330px|right|Excerpts from [[Ramón Martí|Raymond Martin]]'s ''Pugio Fidei adversus Mauros et Judaeos'' (1270, p. 559), containing the phrase "Jehova, sive Adonay, qvia Dominus es omnium" (Jehovah, or Adonay, for you are the Lord of all).<sup>[]</sup>]] | ||
| + | [[Image:IEHOUAH Geneva Bible 1560 Psalm 83 18.PNG|thumb|260px|[[Geneva Bible]], 1560. (Psalm 83:18)]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Tetragrammaton Lat JOVA Hexapla Prov 3 19.JPG|thumb|360px|A Latin rendering of the Tetragrammaton has been the form "Jova", sounding very similar to "Jehovah".<br>(''Origenis Hexaplorum'', edited by Frederick Field, 1875.)</small>]] | ||
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| + | Transcriptions of יְהֹוָה similar to ''Jehovah'' occurred as early as the 12th century. | ||
| + | *''Ieve'': [[Petrus Alphonsi]]<sup>[]</sup> (c. 1106), [[Alexander Geddes]]<sup>[]</sup> (1800) | ||
| + | *''Jehova'': [[Ramón Martí|Raymond Martin]] (Raymundus Martini)<sup>[]</sup> (1278), [[Porchetus de Salvaticis]]<sup>[]</sup> (1303), [[Immanuel Tremellius|Tremellius]] (1575), Marcus Marinus (1593), [[Charles IX of Sweden]]<sup>[]</sup> (1606), [[Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller|Rosenmüller]]<sup>[]</sup> (1820), [[Wilhelm Gesenius]] (c. 1830)<sup>[]</sup> | ||
| + | *''Yohoua'': Raymond Martin<sup>[]</sup> (1278) | ||
| + | *''Yohouah'': Porchetus de Salvaticis<sup>[]</sup> (1303) | ||
| + | *''Ieoa'': [[Nicholas of Cusa]] (1428) | ||
| + | *''Iehoua'': Nicholas of Cusa (1428), [[Pietro Colonna Galatino|Peter Galatin]] (Galatinus)<sup>[]</sup> (1516) | ||
| + | *''Iehova'': Nicholas of Cusa (1428), [[Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples]] (1514), [[Sebastian Münster]] (1526), [[Leo Jud]] (1543), [[Robert Estienne]] (1557) | ||
| + | *''Ihehoua'': Nicholas of Cusa (1428) | ||
| + | *''Jova'': 16th century,<sup>[]</sup> Rosenmüller<sup>[]</sup> (1820) | ||
| + | *''Jehovah'': [[Paul Fagius]] (1546), [[John Calvin]] (1557), King James Bible (1671 [OT] / 1669 [NT]), [[Matthew Poole]]<sup>[]</sup> (1676), [[Benjamin Kennicott]]<sup>[]</sup> (1753), Alexander Geddes<sup>[]</sup> (1800) | ||
| + | *''Iehouáh'': [[Geneva Bible]] (1560) | ||
| + | *''Iehovah'': [[Authorized King James Version]] (1611), [[Henry Ainsworth]] (1627) | ||
| + | *''Jovae'': Rosenmüller<sup>[]</sup> (1820) | ||
| + | *''Yehovah'': William Baillie<sup>[]</sup> (1843) | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | * [[Revealtion 16:5]] | ||
| + | * [[Adon]] | ||
| + | * [[Allah]] | ||
| + | * [[Enki|Ea]] | ||
| + | * [[El (god)|El]] | ||
| + | * [[Enlil|Ellil]] | ||
| + | * [[Elohim]] | ||
| + | * [[God]] | ||
| + | * [[God in the Bahá'í Faith]], [[God in Christianity]], [[God in Islam]], [[God in Judaism]] | ||
| + | * [[Gott (disambiguation)|Gott]] | ||
| + | * [[I am that I am]] | ||
| + | * [[Jah]] | ||
| + | * [[Jehovah's witnesses|Jehovah's Witnesses]] | ||
| + | * [[Names of God]] | ||
| + | * [[Names of God in Judaism]] | ||
| + | * [[Tetragrammaton]] (YHWH) | ||
| + | * [[Theophoric name]]s: | ||
| + | :* [[Jehoshaphat]], [[Jehonadab]], [[Tobijah]] | ||
| + | :* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Jeho*|Search: Jeho*],[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=*iah|*iah],[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=*iah|*ijah] | ||
| + | * [[Yahweh]] | ||
| + | * [[Yam (god)|Yam]] (Ya'a, Yaw) | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
| - | * [http://www.lamblion.net/ | + | * [http://www.lamblion.net/eBooks/Scott%20PDF/jehovah.pdf Jehovah] (PDF) by [[Scott Jones]] |
| - | * [http:// | + | * [http://brandplucked.webs.com/jehovah.htm The Significance of the Name Jehovah] by [[Will Kinney]] |
* [http://www.deanburgonsociety.org/CriticalTexts/yahweh.htm Who is this Deity Named Yahweh?] by Dr. Thomas M. Strouse | * [http://www.deanburgonsociety.org/CriticalTexts/yahweh.htm Who is this Deity Named Yahweh?] by Dr. Thomas M. Strouse | ||
| + | * [http://www.cbcg.org/franklin/indefense_Jehovah.pdf In Defense of Jehovah (PDF)] by Carl D. Franklin | ||
| + | * [http://www.lamblion.net/Articles/Theological/Scott%20Jones/jehovah_jesus.html Jehovah Jesus] (PDF) by [[Scott Jones]] | ||
| + | * [http://www.kjvtoday.com/home/jehovah-or-yahweh-in-exodus-63-et-al Jehovah or Yahweh] by [[KJV Today]] | ||
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Current revision
Jehovah (pronounced /dʒɨˈhoʊvə/) is an English reading of יְהֹוָה, the most frequent form of the Tetragrammaton יהוה, the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. It is a direct phonetic transliteration based on the Hebrew Bible text with vowel points handed down by the Masoretes. Jehovah is the English rendition of the Hebrew Yahovah. Many scholars use the name Yahweh over Jehovah claiming that it is closer to the original. Many names in the bible use 'Jeho' in them, proving that the Hebrews used the name Jehovah and not Yahweh.
The name Jehovah is translated into the King James Bible as the LORD, in capitals. The name Jehovee is GOD, in capitals. Elohim is God, and Adonai is Lord.
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Early modern arguments
In the 16th and 17th centuries, various arguments were presented for and against the transcription of the form Jehovah.
Discourses rejecting Jehovah
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| John Drusius (Johannes Van den Driesche) (1550-1616) | Tetragrammaton, sive de Nomine Die proprio, quod Tetragrammaton vocant (1604) | Drusius stated "Galatinus first led us to this mistake ... I know [of] nobody who read [it] thus earlier..").[1] An editor of Drusius in 1698 knows of an earlier reading in Porchetus de Salvaticis however.[2] John Drusius wrote that neither יְהֹוָה nor יֱהֹוִה accurately represented God's name.[] |
| Sixtinus Amama (1593–1659)[] | De nomine tetragrammato (1628) [3] | Sixtinus Amama, was a Professor of Hebrew in the University of Franeker. A pupil of Drusius. [4] |
| Louis Cappel (1585–1658) | De nomine tetragrammato (1624) | Lewis Cappel reached the conclusion that Hebrew vowel points were not part of the original Hebrew language. This view was strongly contested by John Buxtorff the elder and his son. |
| James Altingius (1618–1679) | Exercitatio grammatica de punctis ac pronunciatione tetragrammati |
Discourses defending Jehovah
| Author | Discourse | Comments |
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| Nicholas Fuller (1557–1626) | Dissertatio de nomine יהוה | Nicholas was a Hebraist and a theologian. [5] |
| John Buxtorf (1564–1629) | Disserto de nomine JHVH (1620); Tiberias, sive Commentarius Masoreticus (1664) | John Buxtorf the elder [6] opposed the views of Elia Levita regarding the late origin (invention by the Masoretes) of the Hebrew vowel points, a subject which gave rise to the controversy between Louis Cappel and his (e.g. John Buxtorf the elder's) son, Johannes Buxtorf II the younger. |
| Johannes Buxtorf II (1599–1664) | Tractatus de punctorum origine, antiquitate, et authoritate, oppositus Arcano puntationis revelato Ludovici Cappelli (1648) | Continued his father's arguments that the pronunciation and therefore the Hebrew vowel points resulting in the name Jehovah have divine inspiration. |
| Thomas Gataker (1574–1654)[7] | De Nomine Tetragrammato Dissertaio (1645) [8] | See Memoirs of the Puritans Thomas Gataker. |
| John Leusden (1624–1699) | Dissertationes tres, de vera lectione nominis Jehova | John Leusden wrote three discourses in defense of the name Jehovah. [9] |
Summary of discourses
In A Dictionary of the Bible (1863), William Robertson Smith summarized these discourses, concluding that "whatever, therefore, be the true pronunciation of the word, there can be little doubt that it is not Jehovah".[] Despite this, he consistently uses the name Jehovah throughout his dictionary and when translating Hebrew names. Some examples include Isaiah [Jehovah's help or salvation], Jehoshua [Jehovah a helper], Jehu [Jehovah is He]. In the entry, Jehovah, Smith writes: "JEHOVAH (יְהֹוָה, usually with the vowel points of אֲדֹנָי; but when the two occur together, the former is pointed יֱהֹוִה, that is with the vowels of אֱלֹהִים, as in Obad. i. 1, Hab. iii. 19:"[] This practice is also observed in many modern publications, such as the New Compact Bible Dictionary (Special Crusade Edition) of 1967 and Peloubet's Bible Dictionary of 1947.
Usage in English
The following works render the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah, either exclusively or occasionally:
- William Tyndale, in his 1530 translation of the first five books of the English Bible, at Exodus 6:3 renders the divine name as Iehovah. In his foreword to this edition he wrote: "Iehovah is God's name... Moreover, as oft as thou seeist LORD in great letters (except there be any error in the printing) it is in Hebrew Iehovah."
- The Authorized King James Version, 1611: four times as the personal name of God (in all capitals): Exodus 6:3; Psalm 83:18; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 26:4; and three times in place names: Genesis 22:14; Exodus 17:15; and Judges 6:24.
- Young's Literal Translation by J.N. Young, 1862, 1898 renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah 6,831 times.
- In the Emphatic Diaglott, 1864, a translation of the New Testament by Benjamin Wilson, the name Jehovah appears 18 times.
- The English Revised Version, 1885, renders the Tetragrammaton as JEHOVAH (in all capitals) 12 times, as the personal name of God, in all the places that the King James Version renders it, and also in Exodus 6:2,6,7,8; Psalm 68:20; Isaiah 49:14; Jeremiah 16:21; Habakkuk 3:19.
- The Darby Bible, by John Nelson Darby renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah 6,810 times.
- The American Standard Version, 1901, renders the Tetragrammaton as Je-ho’vah in 6,823 places in the Old Testament.
- The Modern Reader's Bible, 1914, by Richard Moulton, uses Jehovah at Ps.83:18; Ex.6:2-9; Ex.22:14; Ps.68:4; Jerm.16:20; Isa.12:2 and Isa. 26:4.
- The New English Bible, published by Oxford University Press, 1970: e.g. Gen 22:14; Exodus 3:15,16; 6:3; 17:15; Judges 6:24
- The Living Bible, published by Tyndale House Publishers, Illinois 1971, uses Jehovah extensively, as in the 1901 American Standard Version, on which it is based.
- The Bible in Living English, by Steven T. Byington, published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1972, renders the word Jehovah throughout the Old Testament, as the proper name for God, over 6,800 times.
- The Bible in Today's English (Good News Bible), published by the American Bible Society, 1976, uses The Lord in its translation, stating in its preface, "the distinctive Hebrew name for God (usually transliterated Jehovah or Yahweh) is in this translation represented by 'The Lord'." A footnote to Exodus 3:14 states, "Yahweh, traditionally transliterated as Jehovah."
- The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1961 and revised 1984: Jehovah appears 7,210 times, comprising 6,973 instances in the Old Testament, and 237 times in the New Testament where the Tetragrammaton does not appear in Greek.
- Green's Literal Translation (1985) by Jay P. Green, Sr., renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah 6,866 times.
Recent English translations, including the New Jerusalem Bible (1985), the Amplified Bible (1987), the New Living Translation (1996), the English Standard Version (2001), and the Holman Christian Standard Bible (2004) use Yahweh, rather than Jehovah.
Following the Middle Ages, many Catholic churches and public buildings across Europe were decorated with the name, Jehovah. For example, the Coat of Arms of Plymouth (UK) City Council bears the Latin inscription, "Turris fortissima est nomen Jehova",[] derived from Proverbs 18:10.
Jehovah has been a popular English word for the personal name of God for several centuries. Christian hymns[] feature the name. Some religious groups, notably Jehovah's Witnesses[][] and the King-James-Only movement, make prominent use of the name.
Greek and Latin sources
Under the heading "יהוה c. 6823", the editors of the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon write that Template:Hebrew occurs 6,518 times in the Masoretic Text and that it is read as "Adonai" or "Elohim".[]
Greek transcriptions similar to "Jehovah"
- Ιουώ (Iouō, Template:IPA-el): Pistis Sophia<rsup>[]</sup> (2nd century)
- Ιεού (Ieou, Template:IPA-el): Pistis Sophia[] (2nd century)
- Ιεηωουά (Ie-ee-ōoua): Pistis Sophia[] (2nd century)
- Ιευώ (Ievō): Eusebius[] (c. 315)
- Ιεωά (Ieōa): Hellenistic magical texts[] (2nd-3rd centuries), M. Kyriakakes[] (2000)
- Ιεχοβά (like Jehova[h]): Paolo Medici[] (1755)
- Ιεοβά (like Je[h]ova[h]): Greek Pentateuch[] (1833), Holy Bible translated in modern Greek by Neophytus Vamvas[] (1850)
- Ιεχωβά (like Jehova[h]): Panagiotes Trempelas[] (1958)
Latin and English transcriptions similar to "Jehovah"
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Transcriptions of יְהֹוָה similar to Jehovah occurred as early as the 12th century.
- Ieve: Petrus Alphonsi[] (c. 1106), Alexander Geddes[] (1800)
- Jehova: Raymond Martin (Raymundus Martini)[] (1278), Porchetus de Salvaticis[] (1303), Tremellius (1575), Marcus Marinus (1593), Charles IX of Sweden[] (1606), Rosenmüller[] (1820), Wilhelm Gesenius (c. 1830)[]
- Yohoua: Raymond Martin[] (1278)
- Yohouah: Porchetus de Salvaticis[] (1303)
- Ieoa: Nicholas of Cusa (1428)
- Iehoua: Nicholas of Cusa (1428), Peter Galatin (Galatinus)[] (1516)
- Iehova: Nicholas of Cusa (1428), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1514), Sebastian Münster (1526), Leo Jud (1543), Robert Estienne (1557)
- Ihehoua: Nicholas of Cusa (1428)
- Jova: 16th century,[] Rosenmüller[] (1820)
- Jehovah: Paul Fagius (1546), John Calvin (1557), King James Bible (1671 [OT] / 1669 [NT]), Matthew Poole[] (1676), Benjamin Kennicott[] (1753), Alexander Geddes[] (1800)
- Iehouáh: Geneva Bible (1560)
- Iehovah: Authorized King James Version (1611), Henry Ainsworth (1627)
- Jovae: Rosenmüller[] (1820)
- Yehovah: William Baillie[] (1843)
See also
- Revealtion 16:5
- Adon
- Allah
- Ea
- El
- Ellil
- Elohim
- God
- God in the Bahá'í Faith, God in Christianity, God in Islam, God in Judaism
- Gott
- I am that I am
- Jah
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Names of God
- Names of God in Judaism
- Tetragrammaton (YHWH)
- Theophoric names:
References
External Links
- Jehovah (PDF) by Scott Jones
- The Significance of the Name Jehovah by Will Kinney
- Who is this Deity Named Yahweh? by Dr. Thomas M. Strouse
- In Defense of Jehovah (PDF) by Carl D. Franklin
- Jehovah Jesus (PDF) by Scott Jones
- Jehovah or Yahweh by KJV Today
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