Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses

English

Alternative forms

• Jehovah’s witnesses (former spelling, now obsolete)

Etymology

Jehovah + -'s + witness + -es; name adopted in 1931 and inspired by the Bible verse of Isaiah 43:10 "You are my witnesses."

Noun

Jehovah's Witnesses

1. plural of Jehovah's Witness

Proper noun

Jehovah's Witnesses

1. (religion) 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

denomination

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 m pl Japanese: エホバの証人 (Ehoba no Shōnin) Khmer: សាក្សី​ព្រះ​យេហូវ៉ា (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 Tagalog: Mga Saksi ni Jehova, Mga Saksi ni Hehoba Ukrainian: Свідки Єгови m pl (Svidky Jehovy) Vietnamese: Nhân chứng Giê-hô-va, Nhân Chứng Giê-hô-va

See also

• Jehovah's-Witness
• non-Witness
• Wikipedia article on Jehovah's Witnesses