Scripture

Jehovah

Jehovah is a hybrid that no ancient Israelite ever said: the four consonants of God's name YHWH read with the vowels of ʾĂdōnāy 'my Lord', which scribes had written in as a reminder not to pronounce the name. Renaissance Latin spread it to Protestant Bibles across Europe, and missionaries carried it to Hawaii (Iehova), New Zealand (Ihowa), China, Korea and Japan.

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900 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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