Jehovah's Witnesses

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Jehovah's Witnesses

  1. 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

Noun

Jehovah's Witnesses

  1. plural of Jehovah's Witness

See also

  • Jehovah’s Witnessism, Jehovah's Witnessism
  • non-Witness

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