Word Meanings - ADONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

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• ADONAI
  A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai".
• JEHOVIST
  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. The writer of the passages of the Old Testament, especially those of the Pentateuch, in which the Supreme Being
• REALLY
  Royally. Chaucer.
• VOWELIZE
  To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
• TRANSLATRESS
  A woman who translates.
• TRANSLATITIOUS
  Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. Evelyn.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• JEHOVISTIC
  Relating to, or containing, Jehovah, as a name of God; -- said of certain parts of the Old Testament, especially of the Pentateuch, in which Jehovah appears as the name of the Deity. See Elohistic.
• VOWEL
  A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in
• VOWELISM
  The use of vowels.
• TRANSLATORSHIP
  The office or dignity of a translator.
• JEHOVAH
  A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the "ineffable name" of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews. (more info) âdonai Lord), sometimes
• VOWELISH
  Of the nature of a vowel. "The power is always vowelish." B. Jonson.
• TRANSLATIVE
  tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. Puttenham.
• HEBREW
  1. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen. xiv.
• TRANSLATION
  A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. B. Jonson. (more info) transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. 1. The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of
• HEBREW CALENDAR
  = Jewish calendar.
• HEBREWESS
  An Israelitish woman.
• TRANSLATABLE
  Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.
• TRANSLATOR
  A repeating instrument. (more info) 1. One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.
• MISTRANSLATE
  To translate erroneously.
• ETHEREALLY
  In an ethereal manner.
• TRANSLATE
  To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
• UNREALLY
  In an unreal manner; ideally.
• SEMIVOWEL
  A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. The sign or letter representing such a sound.
• YAHWIST; JAHVIST; JAHWIST; JEHOVIST
  The author of the passages of the Old Testament, esp. those of the Hexateuch, in which God is styled Yahweh, or Jehovah; the author of the Yahwistic, or Jehovistic, Prophetic Document ; also, the document itself.