Jehovah - Similar Greek Transcriptions

Similar Greek Transcriptions

Ancient

  • Ιουω (Iouō, ): Pistis Sophia cited by Charles William King, which also gives Ιαω (Iaō, but more frequently (2nd century)
  • Ιεου (Ieou, ): Pistis Sophia (2nd century)
  • ΙΕΗΩΟΥΑ (i-e-ē-ō-o-ü-a, ), the seven vowels of the Greek alphabet arranged in this order, was, so reports Charles William King, who cites a work On Interpretation that seems not to be that of Aristotle (which does not speak of Egyptians), the Egyptian name of the supreme God. King comments: "This is in fact a very correct representation, if we give each vowel its true Greek sound, of the Hebrew pronunciation of the word Jehovah." (2nd century)
  • Ιευώ (Ievō): Eusebius, who says that Sanchuniathon received the records of the Jews from Hierombalus, priest of the god Ieuo. (c. 315)
  • Ιεωά (Ieōa): Hellenistic magical text (2nd-3rd centuries), M. Kyriakakes (2000)

Modern

  • Ἰεχοβά (like Jehova): Paolo Medici (1755)
  • Ἰεοβά (like Jeova): Greek Pentateuch (1833), Holy Bible translated in Katharevousa Greek by Neophytus Vamvas (1850)
  • Ἰεχωβά (like Jehova): Panagiotes Trempelas (1958)

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