Footnote

b Jehovah is the conventional English form of God’s name, just as Jesus is the conventional form of the Hebrew Ye·shuʹaʽ or the Greek I·e·sousʹ. In his over 600-page Grammaire de l’hébreu biblique, published by the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, Jesuit Professor Joüon writes: “In our translations, instead of the (hypothetical) form Yahweh, we have used the form Jéhovah . . . which is the conventional literary form used in French.”