Jehosaphat
biblical name (II Sam. viii:16), used as a mild expletive in American English from 1857.
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[ji-hosh-uh-fat, -hos-] /dʒɪˈhɒʃ əˌfæt, -ˈhɒs-/ noun 1. a king of Judah, son of Asa, who reigned in the 9th century b.c. I Kings 22:41–50. /dʒɪˈhɒʃəˌfæt; -ˈhɒs-/ noun (Old Testament) 1. the king of Judah (?873–?849 bc) (I Kings 22:41–50) 2. the site of Jehovah’s apocalyptic judgment upon the nations (Joel 4:14) Jehovah-judged. (1.) One of […]
- Jehosheba
Jehovah-swearing, the daughter of Jehoram, the king of Israel. She is called Jehoshabeath in 2 Chr. 22:11. She was the only princess of the royal house who was married to a high priest, Jehoiada (2 Chr. 22:11).
- Jehovah
[ji-hoh-vuh] /dʒɪˈhoʊ və/ noun 1. a name of God in the Old Testament, a rendering of the ineffable name, JHVH, in the Hebrew Scriptures. 2. (in modern Christian use) God. /dʒɪˈhəʊvə/ noun 1. (Old Testament) the personal name of God, revealed to Moses on Mount Horeb (Exodus 3) 1530, Tyndale’s erroneous transliteration of Hebrew Tetragramaton […]
- Jehovah-god
noun 1. (among the Jehovah’s Witnesses) God.
- Jehovah-jireh
Jehovah will see; i.e., will provide, the name given by Abraham to the scene of his offering up the ram which was caught in the thicket on Mount Moriah. The expression used in Gen. 22:14, “in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen,” has been regarded as equivalent to the saying, “Man’s extremity […]