The Sacred Name of God - Known Before Moses?

[harshcshah]

If the sacred name of God (YHWH) was revealed to Moses, then how was Moses’ mother named Yocheved, a name which means “YHWH is glory” It is also written that Genesis 4:26 (NASB): “To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.”
I’m sure there is a good answer for this somewhere and I’d appreciate it if someone on this forum could share it with me.

 

[CRM_Brother]

The Pentateuch in its present form only dates from approximately 500-300 BC. Before then, the Torah was handed down orally in its various parts. Before this, we can see that there was some variation amongst different traditions within the various Israelite religious traditions from the few fragments which were written down and have survived over the years. The most prominent example of this is the differences in Genesis 1 and 2. They were creation accounts from different Israelite sects, although Genesis 2 is older.

As to the name of God, we have to look at the time period in which the Oral Torah was officially finalized and written down. Moses’s mother may have actually been named Yocheved, but it was the later Jews which anachronistically reading into the meaning of her name as 'YHWH is glory." So too, when they speak of men calling on the name of the Lord, the Jews who wrote the final Torah down were using the phrase as an idiom simply meaning that men began to invoke and pray to God, not that they knew the specific name of God.

 

[John_Martin]

The name of God was known since creation (though forgotten by many as people invented idols for themselves) and Moses only wanted to know WHICH God was sending him.
But YHWH is not that name; YHWH is the referential noun used to talk about that God in the third person for people afraid of being face to face with God in the First Person, which is that God’s real name, as explained The Name | SoftVocation

‘I AM’ is that God’s real name for English speakers who don’t need to keep God at a distance by talking about him in the third person.

 

[porthos11]

I subscribe, cautiously, to the JEPD framework of the Torah as presently compiled and edited. I have no issues accounting early uses of the Name to the J or P traditions in the texts e.g. Genesis 2.

 

[EndTimes]

If the sacred name of God (YHWH) was revealed to Moses, then how was Moses’ mother named Yocheved, a name which means “YHWH is glory” It is also written that Genesis 4:26 (NASB): “To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.”
I’m sure there is a good answer for this somewhere and I’d appreciate it if someone on this forum could share it with me.

Moses asked God… What is your Name? and God told Moses. .

Something like I AM WHO AM

Y H W H - are the consonants …

 

[DaveBj]

Something like I AM WHO AM

Y H W H - are the consonants …

This has been discussed a lot. “I am who I am” is " *ehyeh asher *ehyeh", where the * stands for the Hebrew letter aleph, which, among other things, is the verbal prefix for the first person singular.

JHVH is more like “He is”; the Hebrew letter yod is the prefix for the third person masculine singular.

D

 

[EndTimes]

Hebrew letter aleph , which, among other things, is the verbal prefix for the first person singular.

JHVH is more like “He is”; the Hebrew letter yod is the prefix for the third person masculine singular.

D

In any case - they connect with the verb “to be” … I AM … Existence – Eternity