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BrooklynBoy200
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On Wikipedia, it says that both Yahweh and Jenovah are believed to be the name of God in both christianity and Judaism. I’ve never heard either of them outside of history. Are they really God’s real names?
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davidv
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There is a fairly lengthy discussion of these names in the Catholic Encyclopedia (newadvent.org/cathen/n.htm).On Wikipedia, it says that both Yahweh and Jenovah are believed to be the name of God in both christianity and Judaism. I’ve never heard either of them outside of history. Are they really God’s real names?
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Liberian
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Brooklyn Boy,
Something to note is that the Hebrew alphabet doesn’t have vowels. (There is one letter, “vav,” which can be either O, U, V, or W, but that is ambiguous at best.) The original Old Testament didn’t have any vowel markings; the vowel markings were added centuries later as something of a “best guess” and in accordance with the traditional meanings of the words.
In the Old Testament, the Name of God is given as the four Hebrew letters “yodh”, “heh”, “vav”, and “heh” (“YHWH”). With one set of vowels you get one rendering of the Name of God in English, and with another set of vowels (which are transcribed from another term or name for God), you get “Jehovah,” another rendering of the Name of God in English.
When God revealed His Name to Moses on Mount Sinai (as seen in Exodus 34:5-7), the Name that He revealed was indeed YHWH.
Something to note is that the Hebrew alphabet doesn’t have vowels. (There is one letter, “vav,” which can be either O, U, V, or W, but that is ambiguous at best.) The original Old Testament didn’t have any vowel markings; the vowel markings were added centuries later as something of a “best guess” and in accordance with the traditional meanings of the words.
In the Old Testament, the Name of God is given as the four Hebrew letters “yodh”, “heh”, “vav”, and “heh” (“YHWH”). With one set of vowels you get one rendering of the Name of God in English, and with another set of vowels (which are transcribed from another term or name for God), you get “Jehovah,” another rendering of the Name of God in English.
When God revealed His Name to Moses on Mount Sinai (as seen in Exodus 34:5-7), the Name that He revealed was indeed YHWH.
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Jaypeeto4
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Yes, Jehovah (or, more accurately and literally, YAHWEH)
is the name of God used nearly 6,000 times in the Old Testament.
The name is not used even once in the New Testament, however.
The name literally means, “I Am” or “I Am Who Am,” signifying
a timeless, eternal being.
Jaypeeto4 (aka Jaypeeto3)
is the name of God used nearly 6,000 times in the Old Testament.
The name is not used even once in the New Testament, however.
The name literally means, “I Am” or “I Am Who Am,” signifying
a timeless, eternal being.
Jaypeeto4 (aka Jaypeeto3)
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JesuXPIPassio
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I learnt in college that Jehova means “the Lord God” from an old Jewish play on words.
There’s the Yahweh from the Old Testament, the Name that God gave to Moses. Then there’s the word Adonai, which means Lord. When they’d see Yahweh in text, since they frowned upon using the Holy Name, they would just say Adonai.
If you combine the consonants sound in Yahweh (YHWH) and the vowell sounds in Adonai (AOA – I’m guessing the i isn’t taken as a vowell, and it’s like how y is sometimes used as a vowell and sometimes as a consonant), you get “Yahovah” (in some languages, the w and v are interchanged – even Classical Latin pronounced the V as a W or U).
They weren’t using the same alphabet that we have, when they tried to put “Yahovah” into our Roman lettering, they would get the similar “Yehovah.”
The Y and J sounds are also interchanged in some languages, including German and Latin (it’s still that way with Ecclesiastical Latin today). So “Yehovah” becomes “Jehovah.”
There’s the Yahweh from the Old Testament, the Name that God gave to Moses. Then there’s the word Adonai, which means Lord. When they’d see Yahweh in text, since they frowned upon using the Holy Name, they would just say Adonai.
If you combine the consonants sound in Yahweh (YHWH) and the vowell sounds in Adonai (AOA – I’m guessing the i isn’t taken as a vowell, and it’s like how y is sometimes used as a vowell and sometimes as a consonant), you get “Yahovah” (in some languages, the w and v are interchanged – even Classical Latin pronounced the V as a W or U).
They weren’t using the same alphabet that we have, when they tried to put “Yahovah” into our Roman lettering, they would get the similar “Yehovah.”
The Y and J sounds are also interchanged in some languages, including German and Latin (it’s still that way with Ecclesiastical Latin today). So “Yehovah” becomes “Jehovah.”
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MyPhilomena
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Jehovah is not God’s personal name, Yahweh is.On Wikipedia, it says that both Yahweh and Jenovah are believed to be the name of God in both christianity and Judaism. I’ve never heard either of them outside of history. Are they really God’s real names?
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