"Yahweh" pronunciation is more correct (w60 8/1 pp. 453-455)

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  NotFormer

  Huh! Everyone knows that Scooby Doo is the GOAT! 🙄
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  HereIam60

  It seems an old and needless argument. The pronunciation is going to differ from language to language anyway with further variations in dialects and accents. I believe in the old Divine Name brochure there was a chart showing the different pronunciations even among Witnesses in different countries. All we know is there was a name used in the oldest manuscripts and it wasn't in English...
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  Jazzbo

  I suspect Yahweh is pretty close though I have read a reasonable case for it being three syllables which would be Yehoweh. I don't think it makes a whole lot of difference, no one says Yeshua, they all say Jesus. Jehovah is considered to be the anglicized version of Yahweh so it's the same thing.
  
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  Duran

  יהושע Yehoshua

  New International Version Moses said to Joshua Jehoshua (3091. Yehoshua), “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”

  יהושפט Yehoshaphat

  New International Version I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat (3092.Yehoshaphat). There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.

  נחמיה Nechemyah

  New International Version The words of Nehemiah (5166.Nechemyah) son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,

  יה Yah

  New International Version “The LORD Jah (3050. Yah) is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

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  יהוה

  Y י

  H ה

  W/V ו (Placeholder for O or U) (Here and Here)

  H ה

  יהו (Yeho) + ה (ah) = Yehoah/Jehoah (Yehoah/Jehoah)