Definition of jehovah Jehovah

/ʤʌhowˈvʌ/ - [juhowvu] - Je•ho•vah

We found 6 definitions of jehovah from 5 different sources.

What does jehovah mean?

Noun
jehovah - terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
		Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah
		blessed trinity, holy trinity, sacred trinity, trinity the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead
jehovah - a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
		Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVH

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jehovah (n.)
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.

jehovah
je-hō′va, n. the eternal or self-existent Being, the chief Hebrew name of the Deity.—n. Jehō′vist, one who holds that the vowel-points annexed to the word Jehovah in Hebrew are the proper vowels of the word, some maintaining that they are those of the word Adonai or of Elohim: the supposed writer of the passages in the Pentateuch, in which the name applied to God is Jehovah.—adj. Jehovist′ic. [Heb. Yahōwāh, hardly from hāwāh, to be.]