The name is transliterated YHWH. Vowel markings didn’t exist in Hebrew at the time of the writting of Genesis. In German J is pronounced as an English Y and the english W as a V, meaning if one is speaking German the two are quite close.
Of course JW’s originate in an English-Speaking country. Go figure.
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The two guesses for the actual pronunciation of the Tretragrametron is either Yahweh which is considered the closest to begin accurate and the other is Jehovah which, as Nine Two explains is not even close to the accurate pronunciation in English, but may be close in German.
What Bibical Language Scholars have generally done is translate the unknown full word of YHWH (the actual pronunciation was lost as no one spoke it for centuries and Hebrew does not have vowels) as LORD.
Calling God LORD is accurate and respectful. By JW’s and other groups insisting on using either Jehovah or Yahweh, they are mispronouncing God’s actual Name! It’s the equivelant of:
My name is Monica, but people insist on calling me Menaci or Mineco. This is terrible, insulting and annoying!
However, with my name being Monica, if people instead referred to me as Miss. This would be an accurate title for me. It is not terrible, not insulting and not annoying. It’s = to calling YHWH LORD - nothing wrong with it at all.
Just imagine, an entire group of people come together and say my name is Menaci and insist that they are better than everyone else who calls me Miss since they call me by my “name”. It would just make me roll my eyes and actually tick me off if they continued to persist with the error, especially when they put others down who call me Miss rather then use their misinterpretation of my name to refer to me.
Plus if calling God by the YHWH was all important, then Jesus would have taught us to use that Name for God and given us the correct pronuncation of it, but instead, He taught us to call God “Father” and “Daddy”. This actually shows more familiarity with God as compared to using a Name.
My children calls me “Mom” - she is closer to me than people who call my by my first name.
