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'''Jehovah''' is a personal name of [[God]] used in the [[King James Version]]. It is an attempt to transliterate the [[tetragrammaton]] used in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. In Hebrew, this word is given as ''Yĕhovah'' or YHWH. Modern scholars have concluded that medieval Jewish scholars intentionally inserted incorrect vowels into an ancient consonant-only text. They did this to prevent God's true name from being pronounced accidentally. The original pronunciation of the tetragrammaton is not known, but "Yahweh" is conventional among modern scholars.  

'''Jehovah''' is a personal name of [[God]] used in the [[King James Version]]. It is an attempt to transliterate the [[tetragrammaton]] used in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. In Hebrew, this word is given as ''Yĕhovah'' or YHWH. Modern scholars have concluded that medieval Jewish scholars intentionally inserted incorrect vowels into an ancient consonant-only text. They did this to prevent God's true name from being pronounced accidentally. The original pronunciation of the tetragrammaton is not known, but "Yahweh" is conventional among modern scholars.  

==Early usage==

==Early translations==

In [[William Tyndale]]'s 1530 translation of the Bible, the divine name is given as "Iehovah" in Exodus 6:3. The [[Geneva Bible]] of 1560, used by Shakespeare and the Puritans, uses "JEHOVAH" as the name of God in Exodus 6:3 and Psalms 83:18. It also gives the word as a place name in Genesis 22:14 and Exodus 17:15.

The Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible used in the West used until the Reformation, gives the tetragrammaton as "Dominus" (lord). In [[William Tyndale]]'s 1530 translation of the Bible, the divine name is given as "Iehovah" in Exodus 6:3. The [[Geneva Bible]] of 1560, used by Shakespeare and the Puritans, uses "JEHOVAH" as the name of God in Exodus 6:3 and Psalms 83:18. It also gives the word as a place name in Genesis 22:14 and Exodus 17:15.

==King James Version==

==King James Version==