Jehovist

• Yahwist, Yahwehist

From Jehovah +‎ -ist.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈhəʊvɪst/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈhoʊvɪst/

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Jehovist

1. The writer of the passages of the Old Testament, especially those of the Pentateuch, in which the Supreme Being is styled Jehovah. See Elohist.
   • 1862, Samuel Davidson, An Introduction to the Old Testament, Critical, Historical, and Theological:

     The characteristic manner of the Jehovist differs from that of his predecessor [the Elohist]. He is fuller and freer in his descriptions; more reflective in his assignment of motives and causes; more artificial in mode of narration.

Jehovist (plural Jehovists)

1. One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; opposed to adonist.
2. (derogatory) A member of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
3. Anyone who uses the word "Jehovah" as the name of God in worship.

• adonist

• “Jehovist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.