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Jehovah - An anglicized pronunciation of the Hebrew tetragrammaton,
Yhwh, which are the four consonant letters used to spell Godâs name in the Old Testament (
Exodus 3:14). The vowels of the word âadonaiâ was combined with
Yhwh to get the word âJehovahâ which was first used in the 12th century. A more accurate pronunciation of
Yhwh would be âYahweh
Yah - See God ; I Am ; Jehovah; Lord;
Yhwh
Yhwh - In most English translations
Yhwh is recognizable where the word LORD appears in all caps. ...
In the course of the centuries the actual pronunciation of
Yhwh was lost.
Yhwh appeared with the vowels from “Adonai” as a device to remind them to say “Adonai” in their reading of the text. From the study of the structure of the Hebrew language most scholars today believe that
Yhwh was probably pronounced Yahweh (Yah' weh )
Jehovah-Shamma - (jeh hoh' vuh-sshuhm' maw) Transliteration of a Hebrew name (
Ezekiel 48:35 , margin) meaning “The Lord is there” which is better transliterated
Yhwh-shammah (NAS margin)
Tetragrammaton (Yhwh) - ’”
Yhwh makes up the base of the verb "to be" from which God designated His own name as "I AM. " In English the letters are basically equivalent to
Yhwh
Lord - ” The Tetragrammaton
Yhwh appears without its own vowels, and its exact pronunciation is debated (Jehovah, Yehovah, Jahweh, Yahweh). ...
The divine name
Yhwh appears only in the Bible. , man as a weak and dependent creature) and began (along with all other pious persons) to call upon (formally worship) the name of
Yhwh, “the Lord” (
Yhwh, but the promised deliverance and, therefore, the fuller significance or experienced meaning of His name were unknown to them (
God, Names of -
Yhwh, the tetragrammaton because of its four letters, is, strictly speaking, the only proper name for God. English Bibles represent the name
Yhwh by the title "Lord" (written in capitals to distinguish it from "lord"
[
Philippians 2:11 ). The resulting misguided pronunciation of the name
Yhwh as a three-syllable word, Y
ehovah, continued in English Bible translations until early in the twentieth century. "...
The meaning of the name
Yhwh may best be summarized as "present to act (usually, but not only) in salvation. The name
Yhwh specifies an immediacy, a presence. ...
The name
Yhwh was probably given to Moses as a new revelation; the "faith" that came to be associated with the name
Yhwh, although in continuity with that of the patriarchs, was different from theirs. ...
The theological significance that attaches to the name
Yhwh is multiple. ...
The name
Yhwh defines him as involved in human struggle. " The name
Yhwh is prominent in salvation oracles (
Zephaniah 3:14-17 ) and in petitions (
Psalm 79:5,9 ; 86:1 ). The salvation dimension of the name recurs in the announcement of the incarnation: the one born is to be called "Jesus" for (as an echo of the name
Yhwh) "he will save his people from their sins" (
Matthew 1:21 ). In the name
Yhwh God's character as the savior of a people is revealed. The name
Yhwh is a name to which Israel can lay particular claim. ...
The name
Yhwh is anything but empty. Riesel, The Mysterious Name of
Yhwh ; H
Kere-Kethib - An example is the perpetual kere involving God's personal name, where the Hebrew text contains the consonants
Yhwh with the vowels a, o, a from adonai , the Hebrew word for Lord in which i is actually a Hebrew consonant
Jesus Christ, Name And Titles of - The most important development was the substitution of "Adonai" (Lord) for "Yahweh" in synagogue usage and the use of hashem, "the name, " for both "Yahweh, " "Elohim" (God), and even "Adonai" in the rabbinic schools, at least when quoting the Tanach, so the rabbis forgot how
Yhwh was orginally pronounced. Indeed, for them the divine name,
Yhwh, was given to Jesus, that every knee should bow to him and every tongue confess that he is Lord (
Philippians 2:9-11 ; cf.
Yhwh]'>[10] says to my Lord (LXX kyrios
9 [
John 20:28 )
God - ...
The generic term for God in the New Testament is theos, but kurios , the Greek rendering of the Hebrew
Yhwh, is frequently used instead of the generic term. Instead, they gave to this four-consonant name (YHWH) the vowels of another Hebrew word, Adonai, which means "my Master" or "my Lord. When the Old Testament was translated into Greek, the name
Yhwh or Adonai was rendered by the Greek word kurios, which means "Lord
Kingdom of God - Due to respect for the third commandment ("You shall not misuse the name of the Lordyour God"
), pious Jews used various circumlocutions for the sacred name of God (YHWH) in order to avoid the danger of breaking this commandment
God - ’ The expression ‘Tetragrammaton’ is used for the four consonants of the sacred name,
Yhwh, which appears in Greek capital letters as Pipi , owing to the similarity of the Greek capital p to the Hebrew h , and the Greek capital i to the Hebrew y and w
Psalms, Theology of - They frequently exhibit the formula Yhwh malak, "Yahweh is king" or some similar sentiment