Crazy awesome post Terry.
Jehovah is the correct uttering of God's name
by mistified 39 Replies latest jw friends
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billythekid46
Just bare in mind reader the Roman Catholic Church was not around the first century Christians, who did us the divine name of God, Yahweh. The Roman Catholic Church established itself 400 years later. However through their own lexicon, codex, the Jews removed the Y and replaced it with J making gods personal name to Jahweh, Just as the name Yeshua became Jeshua. I believe your journey would start with how the HWE came to be OVA. Your looking for Context, meaning, and pronunciation. Example: Smith, Smyth, Smythe. To the English speaker and seeing the word, the name Smith would be more appropriate than the others because the English language would pronounce the others differently, even though they would sound the same in a foreign language. However they would not get your attention by simply saying “Hey You”, but they would get your attention by say “Hey you Mr. Smith”. Research your question and find the appropriate context and meaning to get your answer.
Each of the many names of God describes a different aspect of His many-faceted character. Here are some of the better-known names of God in the Bible:
EL, ELOAH: God "mighty, strong, prominent" ( Genesis 7:1 ; Isaiah 9:6 ) – etymologically, El appears to mean “power,” as in “I have the power to harm you” ( Genesis 31:29 ). El is associated with other qualities, such as integrity ( Numbers 23:19 ), jealousy ( Deuteronomy 5:9 ), and compassion ( Nehemiah 9:31 ), but the root idea of might remains.
ELOHIM: God “Creator, Mighty and Strong” ( Genesis 17:7 ; Jeremiah 31:33 ) – the plural form of Eloah, which accommodates the doctrine of the Trinity. From the Bible’s first sentence, the superlative nature of God’s power is evident as God (Elohim) speaks the world into existence ( Genesis 1:1 ).
EL SHADDAI: “God Almighty,” “The Mighty One of Jacob” ( Genesis 49:24 ; Psalm 132:2 , 5 ) – speaks to God’s ultimate power over all.
ADONAI: “Lord” ( Genesis 15:2 ; Judges 6:15 ) – used in place of YHWH, which was thought by the Jews to be too sacred to be uttered by sinful men. In the Old Testament, YHWH is more often used in God’s dealings with His people, while Adonai is used more when He deals with the Gentiles.
YHWH / YAHWEH / JEHOVAH: “LORD” ( Deuteronomy 6:4 ; Daniel 9:14 ) – strictly speaking, the only proper name for God. Translated in English Bibles “LORD” (all capitals) to distinguish it from Adonai, “Lord.” The revelation of the name is first given to Moses “I Am who I Am” ( Exodus 3:14 ). This name specifies an immediacy, a presence. Yahweh is present, accessible, near to those who call on Him for deliverance ( Psalm 107:13 ), forgiveness ( Psalm 25:11 ) and guidance ( Psalm 31:3 ).
YAHWEH-JIREH: "The Lord Will Provide" ( Genesis 22:14 ) – the name memorialized by Abraham when God provided the ram to be sacrificed in place of Isaac.
YAHWEH-RAPHA: "The Lord Who Heals" ( Exodus 15:26 ) – “I am Jehovah who heals you” both in body and soul. In body, by preserving from and curing diseases, and in soul, by pardoning iniquities.
YAHWEH-NISSI: "The Lord Our Banner" ( Exodus 17:15 ), where banner is understood to be a rallying place. This name commemorates the desert victory over the Amalekites in Exodus 17.
YAHWEH-M'KADDESH: "The Lord Who Sanctifies, Makes Holy" ( Leviticus 20:8 ; Ezekiel 37:28 ) – God makes it clear that He alone, not the law, can cleanse His people and make them holy.
YAHWEH-SHALOM: "The Lord Our Peace" ( Judges 6:24 ) – the name given by Gideon to the altar he built after the Angel of the Lord assured him he would not die as he thought he would after seeing Him.
YAHWEH-ELOHIM: "LORD God" ( Genesis 2:4 ; Psalm 59:5 ) – a combination of God’s unique name YHWH and the generic “Lord,” signifying that He is the Lord of Lords.
YAHWEH-TSIDKENU: "The Lord Our Righteousness” ( Jeremiah 33:16 ) – As with YHWH-M’Kaddesh, it is God alone who provides righteousness to man, ultimately in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who became sin for us “that we might become the Righteousness of God in Him” ( 2 Corinthians 5:21 ).
YAHWEH-ROHI: "The Lord Our Shepherd" ( Psalm 23:1 ) – After David pondered his relationship as a shepherd to his sheep, he realized that was exactly the relationship God had with him, and so he declares, “Yahweh-Rohi is my Shepherd. I shall not want” ( Psalm 23:1 ).
YAHWEH-SHAMMAH: "The Lord Is There” ( Ezekiel 48:35 ) – the name ascribed to Jerusalem and the Temple there, indicating that the once-departed glory of the Lord (Ezekiel 8—11) had returned ( Ezekiel 44:1-4 ).
YAHWEH-SABAOTH: "The Lord of Hosts" ( Isaiah 1:24 ; Psalm 46:7 ) – Hosts means “hordes,” both of angels and of men. He is Lord of the host of heaven and of the inhabitants of the earth, of Jews and Gentiles, of rich and poor, master and slave. The name is expressive of the majesty, power, and authority of God and shows that He is able to accomplish what He determines to do.
EL ELYON: “Most High" ( Deuteronomy 26:19 ) – derived from the Hebrew root for “go up” or “ascend,” so the implication is of that which is the very highest. El Elyon denotes exaltation and speaks of absolute right to lordship.
EL ROI: "God of Seeing" ( Genesis 16:13 ) – the name ascribed to God by Hagar, alone and desperate in the wilderness after being driven out by Sarah ( Genesis 16:1-14 ). When Hagar met the Angel of the Lord, she realized she had seen God Himself in a theophany. She also realized that El Roi saw her in her distress and testified that He is a God who lives and sees all.
EL-OLAM: "Everlasting God" ( Psalm 90:1-3 ) – God’s nature is without beginning or end, free from all constraints of time, and He contains within Himself the very cause of time itself. “From everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”
EL-GIBHOR: “Mighty God” ( Isaiah 9:6 ) – the name describing the Messiah, Christ Jesus, in this prophetic portion of Isaiah. As a powerful and mighty warrior, the Messiah, the Mighty God, will accomplish the destruction of God’s enemies and rule with a rod of iron ( Revelation 19:15 ). -
Badfish
the first century Christians, who did us the divine name of God, Yahweh.
How do you know they used it when the Tetragrammaton does not appear anywhere in the New Testament?
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designs
'Jesus is here to cut the grass'
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AndDontCallMeShirley
*** w50 12/1 pp. 472-473 An Open Letter to the Catholic Monsignor ***
THE DIVINE NAME
The last four paragraphs of your article are grouped under the heading "Jehovah Not Correct as God’s Name". Here you open by saying: "Something of the shallow scholarship in the sect in adopting the word Jehovah as part of its title is shown by the Catholic Biblical Encyclopedia’s treatment of this word: . . . ." And your closing paragraph says: "We fear that all the other scholarship of the Witnesses, including what they have done in their translation of the New Testament, is on the same basis as their use of the word Jehovah."
Thank you for this opportunity to present some facts to you and to the public. We do not say that "Jehovah" is the correct pronunciation of God’s name. For that matter, neither is "Jesus" the correct pronunciation of Christ’s name. But according to the Aramaic language which Christ and his apostles spoke, his name was pronounced "Yeshu ′ a" (the a representing a gutteral ending). But "Jesus" is only our colloquial way of pronouncing his name, and we do not find fault with you for using it instead of Yeshu ′ a. However, if you call it shallow scholarship for the Committee to use the word Jehovah in the New World Translation, then you will have to admit that it is due to the shallow scholarship of the Roman Catholic clergy of the thirteenth century, for in that century the word historically appears among them.
Your quotation from the Catholic Biblical Encyclopedia says Jehovah was the incorrect pronunciation given to the Hebrew tetragrammaton JHVH in the 14th century by Porchetus de Salvaticis (1303). But let us say: The origin of the word Jehovah used to be attributed to Petrus Galatinus, a Franciscan friar, the confessor of Pope Leo X, in his De Arcanis Catholicae Veritatis, published in 1518. But the latest scholarship has proved he was not the one to introduce the pronunciation Jehovah, and neither was your aforementioned Porchetus de Salvaticis. As shown by Joseph Voisin, the learned editor of the Pugio Fidei (The Poniard of Faith) by Raymundus Martini, Jehovah had been used long before Galatinus. Even a generation before Porchetus de Salvaticis wrote his Victoria contra Judaeos (1303), the Spanish Dominican friar Raymundus Martini wrote his Pugio, about 1278, and used the name Jehovah. In fact, Porchetus took the contents of his Victoria largely from Martini’s Pugio. And Scaliger proves that Galatinus took his De Arcanis bodily from Martini’s Pugio. Galatinus did not introduce the pronunciation Jehovah, but merely defended it against those who pronounced the Hebrew tetragrammaton Jova.
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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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Spectre
Remember, In the latin alphabet, Jehovah begins with an I.
~best said in a Sean Connery voice~
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hellenback
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Names_of_G-d/YHVH/yhvh.html
Midway dow the page you will see hebrew writing with a sound link to the right that is how gods I am that I am= ehyeh asher ehyeh is pronounced.
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bigmac
see--i was right all along--Elvis IS god
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ablebodiedman
Here is a video about a book written by a Jewish Scholar who found all the jots and titles in the tetragrammation while translating an ancient text and so therefore can pronounce the name:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TN1B1V2-_g
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jgnat
How do you pronounce Jeremiah in Hebrew?
http://www.dictionary.co.il/view.php?topics=h1012&offset=10&limit=10