How to Pronounce Jehovah

What does Jehovah mean?

Jehovah means “self-subsisting”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

What is Jehovah?

The special and significant name (not merely an appellative title such as Lord [adonai]) by which God revealed himself to the ancient Hebrews (Ex. 6:2, 3). This name, the Tetragrammaton of the Greeks, was held by the later Jews to be so sacred that it was never pronounced except by the high priest on the great Day of Atonement, when he entered into the most holy place. Whenever this name occurred in the sacred books they pronounced it, as they still do, “Adonai” (i.e., Lord), thus using another word in its stead. The Massorets gave to it the vowel-points appropriate to this word. This Jewish practice was founded on a false interpretation of Lev. 24:16.

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

Found in Scripture

Other names from Exodus