Jehovah

je-hō′va, n. the eternal or self-existent Being, the chief Hebrew name of the Deity.— n. Jehō′vist , one who holds that the vowel-points annexed to the word Jehovah in Hebrew are the proper vowels of the word, some maintaining that they are those of the word Adonai or of Elohim : the supposed writer of the pa ages in the Pent a teuch, in which the name applied to God is Jehovah.— adj. Jehovist′ic . [Heb. Yahōwāh , hardly from hāwāh , to be.]