Giê-hô-va
Vietnamese
Alternative forms
- Giê Hô Va
- Gia-vê (“Yahweh”)
- Thiên Chúa
- Chúa Trời
Etymology
French Jéhovah, with the <h> unmuted, therefore a partial orthographic borrowing from French.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ze˧˧ ho˧˧ vaː˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [jej˧˧ how˧˧ vaː˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [jej˧˧ how˧˧ vaː˧˧] ~ [jej˧˧ how˧˧ jaː˧˧]
- Phonetic spelling: giê hô va
Proper noun
Giê-hô-va
- (biblical, Protestantism, Jehovah's Witnesses) Jehovah
- Đức Giê-hô-va
- Jehovah
- Nhân chứng Giê-hô-va
- the Jehovah's Witnesses
- Exodus 20:2; 1925 Vietnamese translation by Phan Khôi et al.; 2021 English translation based on the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition