How do Catholics respond to JW's claim that God's true name is Jehovah?

[Dave_Noonan]

The Tetragrammaton is the name of God: the four letter name, spelled in Hebrew Yod Heh Vav Heh, or YHVH. The Jews do not pronounce this name. When they encounter it in Scripture, they substitute “Adonai,” which means, “The Lord.” Scribes used to write the vowel points of Adonai beneath the Tetragrammaton, to remind the reader to insert the substitution.

So, basically tell them there is no such thing as Jehovah–it’s a Hebrew reading error. This pretty much ends the conversation in my experience.

 

[Nicea325]

So, basically tell them there is no such thing as Jehovah–it’s a Hebrew reading error. This pretty much ends the conversation in my experience.

The term “Jehovah” if I am correct was not used until the 13th century and used in error.

 

[Gabriel_of_12]

A catholic was the person who first came up with the word “Jehovah” by mixing the Hebrew transliteration for god YHWH with ADONAI or something like that.

In Hebrew the name of God is spelled YHWH.

Shortly before the first century A.D., it became common for Jews to avoid saying the divine name for fear of misusing it and breaking the second commandment (“You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain,” Dt 5:11). Whenever they read Scripture aloud and encountered the divine name, they substituted another Hebrew word, “Adonai” (which means “Lord” or “my Lord”), in its place.

About the 13th century the term “Jehovah” appeared when Christian scholars took the consonants of “Yahweh” and pronounced it with the vowels of “Adonai.” This resulted in the sound “Yahowah,” which has a Latinized spelling of “Jehovah.” The first recorded use of this spelling was made by a Spanish Dominican monk, Raymundus Martini, in 1270.

Interestingly, this fact is admitted in much Jehovah’s Witness literature, such as their Aid to Bible Understanding (p. 885). This is surprising because Jehovah’s Witnesses loathe the Catholic Church and have done everything in their power to strip their church of traces of Catholicism. Despite this, their group’s very name contains a Catholic “invention,” the name “Jehovah.”

Jehovah’s Witnesses blast orthodox Christendom for “hiding the name of God” by replacing “Jehovah” with “the Lord” whenever “Jehovah” appears in Scripture. They charge this is a Jewish “superstition” that dishonors God (which it does not). Yet their own organization has a name that was invented as a result of the same thinking that produced use of “the Lord.”

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