Similar Latin and English transcriptions of Jehovah

[The Librarian]

Transcriptions of יְהֹוָה similar to Jehovah occurred as early as the 12th century.

• Ieve: Petrus Alphonsi (c. 1106), Alexander Geddes (1800)
• Jehova: Raymond Martin (Raymundus Martini) (1278), Porchetus de Salvaticis (1303), Tremellius (1575), Marcus Marinus (1593), Charles IX of Sweden (1606), Rosenmüller (1820), Wilhelm Gesenius (c. 1830)
• Yohoua: Raymond Martin (1278)
• Yohouah: Porchetus de Salvaticis (15)
• Ieoa: Nicholas of Cusa (1428)
• Iehoua: Nicholas of Cusa (1428), Peter Galatin (Galatinus) (1516)
• Iehova: Nicholas of Cusa (1428), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1514), Sebastian Münster (1526), Leo Jud (1543), Robert Estienne (1557)
• Ihehoua: Nicholas of Cusa (1428)
• Jova: 16th century, Rosenmüller (1820)
• Jehovah: Paul Fagius (1546), John Calvin (1557), King James Bible (1671 [OT] / 1669 [NT]), Matthew Poole (1676), Benjamin Kennicott (1753), Alexander Geddes (1800)
• Iehouáh: Geneva Bible (1560)
• Iehovah: Authorized King James Version (1611), Henry Ainsworth (1627)
• Jovae: Rosenmüller (1820)
• Yehovah: William Baillie (1843)

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[The Librarian]

A Latin rendering of the Tetragrammaton has been the form "Jova", sounding very similar to "Jehovah".(Origenis Hexaplorum, edited by Frederick Field, 1875.)

[The Librarian]

A Latin rendering of the Tetragrammaton has been the form "Jova", sounding very similar to "Jehovah".(Origenis Hexaplorum, edited by Frederick Field, 1875.)

[The Librarian]

Excerpts from Raymond Martin's Pugio Fidei adversus Mauros et Judaeos (1270, p. 559), containing the phrase "Jehova, sive Adonay, qvia Dominus es omnium" (Jehovah, or Adonay, for you are the Lord of all).[126]