Subject: name Jehovah |
Bible Note: Ray Consider this in your search for the missing three uses of YHWY. I AM which is HAYAH and is a verb is considered by many scholars to be a play on the word putting action to YHWH. If you count I AM you will see it occurs three times making 6831 which is divisible by three. Point to ponder 3:13, 14 Moses anticipated questions from the children of Israel when he returned to them as the Lord’s spokesman, and he wanted to be able to tell them who sent him. It was at this point that God first revealed Himself as Jehovah, the great I AM. Jehovah (more precisely Yahweh) comes from the Hebrew verb “to be,” hayah. This sacred name is known as the tetragrammaton (“four letters”). English Jehovah comes from the Hebrew YHWH, with vowel markings supplied from Elohim and Adonai, other names of God. No one knows for sure the true pronunciation of YHWH because the ancient Hebrew spelling used no actual vowels in its alphabet. However, the pronunciation “Yahweh” is probably correct. The Jews consider YHWH too sacred to utter. The name proclaims God as self-existent, self-sufficient, eternal, and sovereign. The fuller name I AM WHO I AM may mean I AM BECAUSE I AM or I WILL BE THAT I WILL BE. MacDonald, W. (1997, c1995). Believer's Bible Commentary : Old and New Testaments (Ex 3:13-15). Nashville: Thomas Nelson. EdB |