Etymology

Jehovah's Witnesses

Today it means: A monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group. Full definition →

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The story

From Jehovah, the personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; the name was adopted in 1931 and inspired by the Biblical verse of Isaiah 43:10: You are my witnesses.

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