English
Etymology
From Jehovah, the personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; the name was adopted in 1931 and inspired by the Biblical verse of Isaiah 43:10: You are my witnesses.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Jehovah's Witnesses
- A monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group.
- Synonyms: Bible Students (former name), International Bible Students (former name).
Translations
denomination
- Afrikaans: Jehovah se Getuies
- Arabic: شُهُودُ يَهْوَه m (šuhūdu yahwah)
- Armenian: Եհովայի վկաներ pl (Ehovayi vkaner)
- Asturian: Testigos de Xehová
- Azerbaijani: Јеһованын Шаһидләри (Yehovanın Şahidləri)
- Bulgarian: Свидетелите на Йехова (Svidetelite na Jehova)
- Catalan: Testimonis de Jehovà
- Cebuano: Mga Saksi ni Jehová
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 耶和華見證人 / 耶和华见证人 (je4 wo4 waa4 gin3 zing3 jan4)
- Mandarin: 耶和華見證人 / 耶和华见证人 (zh) (Yēhéhuá Jiànzhèngrén)
- Cornish: Dustunyoryon Yehovah
- Danish: Jehovas Vidner n pl
- Dutch: Jehovah's Getuigen pl
- Faroese: Jehova Vitni
- Finnish: Jehovan todistajat
- Flemish: Getuigen van Jehova pl
- French: Témoins de Jéhovah (fr) m pl
- Georgian: იეჰოვას მოწმეები (iehovas moc̣meebi)
- German: Zeugen Jehovas (de) m pl
- Greek: Μάρτυρες του Ιεχωβά (el) pl (Mártyres tou Iechová)
- Hebrew: עֵדִי־יְהֹוָה m (Edi-Yehovah)
- Hiligaynon: Mga Saksi ni Jehová
- Hindi: यहोवा के साक्षी m (yahovā ke sākṣī)
- Hungarian: Jehova Tanúi (hu) pl
- Ibanag: Saksi ira ni Jehová
- Icelandic: Vottar Jehóva pl
- Ilocano: Dagiti Saksi ni Jehová
- Indonesian: Saksi-Saksi Yehuwa
- Interlingua: Testes de Jehovah pl
- Italian: Testimoni di Geova (it) m pl
- Japanese: エホバの証人 (Ehoba no Shōnin)
- Kazakh: Ехоба куәгерлері (Exoba kwägerleri)
- Khmer: សាក្សីព្រះយេហូវ៉ា (saksəy-prĕəh-yeihouvaa)
- Korean: 여호와의 증인 (Yeohowa-ui Jeung'in)
- Latin: Testēs Jehōvae
- Latvian: Jehovas liecinieki pl
- Macedonian: Јеховини сведоци m pl (Jehovini svedoci)
- Nicobarese:
- Car Nicobarese: Vamënyen Yāvē
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Jehovas vitner n pl
- Nynorsk: Jehovas vitne n pl
- Pangasinan: Saray Tasi nen Jehová
- Papiamentu: Testigunan di Yehova
- Polish: Świadkowie Jehowy m
- Portuguese: Testemunhas de Jeová (pt) f pl
- Romanian: Martorii lui Iehova
- Russian: Свиде́тели Иего́вы m pl (Svidételi Ijegóvy)
- Slovene: Jehovove priče f pl
- Spanish: Testigos de Jehová m pl
- Swahili: Mashahidi wa Yehova
- Swedish: Jehovas vittnen, Jehovas (colloquial)
- Tagalog: Mga Saksi ni Jehová
- Ukrainian: Свідки Єгови m pl (Svidky Jehovy)
- Urdu: یہوواہ کے گواہ (yahovā ke gavāh)
- Vietnamese: Nhân chứng Giê-hô-va, Nhân Chứng Giê-hô-va (人證支呼𠇕)
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Noun
Jehovah's Witnesses
- plural of Jehovah's Witness
See also
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