jehovah

Other forms of jehovah

plural

jehovahs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jehovah

What does jehovah mean?

jehovah means "a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jehovah?

jehovah has 3 syllables: je-ho-vah. The stress falls on "ho". In IPA it is /dʒəˈhoʊvə/.

What is another word for jehovah?

Close synonyms include Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jehovah a common word?

jehovah is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.