JEHOVAH
Castilian transcription of the name of God given in the Hebrew Bible by the tetragrammaton YHVH.
The pronunciation “Jehovah” comes from the fact that for the reading in the synagogues YHVH was read “Adonai” (Lord), and that the vowels of Adonai had been added to the consonants of the tetragrammaton to remind the reader of the name he should read.
This pronunciation, coming from certain rabbinic currents, became common after Pedro Galatino, confessor of Leo X (1518).
Modern research indicates that the original pronunciation was Yahveh. See GOD, and GOD (e: names).
Jehovah is the form that has been consecrated by use in the Spanish versions of the Reina-Valera and Modern Bible, although some recent versions, such as the Nácar-Colunga, transliterate “Yahweh”; The Catalan version “deIs Monjos de Montserrat” transliterates “Jahvè”, and that of the “Fundació Bíblica Catalana” transliterates “Jahveh”. Other versions, like Herder’s, put “Lord.”