Jehovah's Witnesses
/d͡ʒəˈhəʊ.vəz ˈwɪt.nə.sɪz//d͡ʒəˈhoʊ.vəz ˈwɪt.nə.sɪz/
词源说明
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.
释义
专有名词proper noun
- 1A monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group.
名词noun
- 1plural of Jehovah's Witness