Jehovah, the name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures as self-existent, and the Creator and Lord of all things, in the regard of the Jews too sacred to be pronounced, and which in the Authorised Version is often rendered by the word LORD in small capital letters.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Jeffreys, Baron * Jehovist