Jehovah's Witnesses

English

Alternative forms

Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jehovah’s witnesses, Jehovah's witnesses

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

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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)
Car Nicobarese: Vamënyen Yāvē
Catalan: Testimonis de Jehovà
Cebuan: 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
Iloco: 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)
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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