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NASB | Deuteronomy 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and mind and with all your soul and with all your strength [your entire being]. |
Bible Question: Where did the word god come from and Yahwey |
Bible Answer: The name of God is expressed in the Hebrew as YHWH. In ancient Hebrew there were almost no vowels in the written language. Thus any vowels added were added after the time of Christ. In Hebrew words have two syllables. Any seeming extra syllables are prefixes or suffixes. Thus YHWH is to be pronounced either Yahweh (He will be) or Yohweh (He causes to be). Jehovah is an impossiblity in Hebrew. It arises because the vowels of adonai (lord) were applied to YHWH so that anyone reading aloud would recognise that they had to say adonai and not pronounce the sacred name of God. An experienced Hebraist would immediately recognise that the word Jehovah was not an acceptable word and would thus be warned not to pronounce it. The prefixes and suffixes Ye, Yah and Yahu are all variations of YAH the shortened form of YHWH occasionally found in the Old Testament. |