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==Definition==
==Definition==
The usual form, among [[scholars]], of the [[personal]] name of [[God]] in the [[Old Testament]], representing the most likely vocalization of the ‘[[sacred]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tetragrammaton’ YHWH
The usual form, among [[scholars]], of the [[personal]] name of [[God]] in the [[Old Testament]], representing the most likely vocalization of the ‘[[sacred]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tetragrammaton’ '''''YHWH''''']
''Jehovah'' is its [[English]] and common European representation, since the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 16th c]., of the [[Hebrew]] [[divine]] name Yhwh. This [[word]] (the ‘sacred tetragrammaton’) having come to be considered by the Jews too [[sacred]] for [[utterance]], was pointed in the [[Old Testament]] by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoretes Masoretes] with the vowels ' (= {a), {o}, {a}, of {a}d{o}n{a}i, as a direction to the [[reader]] to substitute ADONAI for the ‘ineffable name’; which is actually done by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome Jerome] in the Vulgate [[translation]] of Exodus vi. 3, and hence by Wyclif. Students of [[Hebrew]] at the Revival of Letters took these vowels as those of the word Yhwh (IHUH, JHVH) itself, which was accordingly transliterated in [[Latin]] spelling as IeHoVa(H), i.e. Iehoua(h. It is now held that the [[original]] name was IaHUe(H), i.e. Jahve(h, or with the [[English]] values of the letters, Yahwe(h, and one or other of these forms is now generally used by [[writers]] upon the [[religion]] of the [[Hebrews]]. The [[word]] has generally been [[understood]] to be a derivative of the verb h{a}w{a}h to be, to exist, as if ‘he that is’, ‘the self-existent’, or ‘the one ever coming into [[manifestation]]’; this [[origin]] is now disputed, but no conjectured derivation which has been substituted has found general [[acceptance]].
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