köken: Borrowed from Latin Iehōva, itself based on Biblical Hebrew יהוה (IHVH) vocalized through אֲדֹנָי (adonái) to avoid pronouncing God's name. The term is commonly associated with Jehovah's Witnesses.
köken: From Biblical Hebrew יְהֹוָה (YHWH), which is often rendered as ヤハウェ (Yahawe) in Japanese texts. This version is influenced by versions of the name in Christian translations such as Portuguese Jeová, English Jehovah. [jehoβa] → [ehoba]
Jehovah (personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures) · Yahweh (ancient Levantine deity, and national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah)
eş: Jehowa
köken: Transliteration of Biblical Hebrew יְהֹוָה. Doublet of Jehowa.
The proper, personal name of the Jewish and Christian God.
köken: The etymology of this theonym has been discussed extensively in scholarly literature, but remains uncertain. It has been argued to be, among others: * the verbal form, prefixed by 3rd singular masculine y-, of hyh ~ hwh ~ hwy "to be" (whose ancestor is reconstructed by Huehnergard (2011) as Proto-Semitic *h-w-y (“to fall, happen, be, become”)), according to Lewis (2020). Lewis further interprets…