Jehovah's Witnesses

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Jehovah's Witnesses

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Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jehovah’s witnesses, Jehovah's witnesses (former spellings, now obsolete)

Etymology edit

From Jehovah, the personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; name adopted in 1931 and inspired by the Bible verse of Isaiah 43:10 "You are my witnesses."

Proper noun edit

Jehovah 's Witnesses

A monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group. Originally known as International Bible Students or Bible Students.

Translations edit

denomination

Afrikaans: Jehovah se Getuies
Arabic: شُهُودُ يَهْوَه m (šuhūdu yahwah)
Armenian: Եհովայի վկաներ pl (Ehovayi vkaner)
Asturian: Testigos de Xehová
Azerbaijani: Yehovanın Şahidləri
Bulgarian: Свидетелите на Йехова (Svidetelite na Jehova)
Car Nicobarese: Vamënyen Yāvē
Catalan: Testimonis de Jehovà
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 m pl
Greek: Μάρτυρες του Ιεχωβά (el) pl (Mártyres tou Iechová)
Hindi: यहोवा के साक्षी m (yahovā ke sākṣī)
Hungarian: Jehova Tanúi (hu) pl
Icelandic: Vottar Jehóva pl
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)
Khmer: សាក្សីព្រះយេហូវ៉ា (saksəy-prĕəh-yeihouvaa)
Korean: 여호와의 증인 (Yeohowa-ui Jeung'in)
Latin: Testes Iehova
Latvian: Jehovas liecinieki pl
Macedonian: Јеховини сведоци m pl (Jehovini svedoci)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Jehovas vitner n pl

Nynorsk: Jehovas vitne n pl
Papiamentu: Testigunan di Yehova
Polish: Świadkowie Jehowy pl
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 Jehova, Mga Saksi ni Hehoba
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

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