Bible Question:
Are God's "literal names" important? 1) Iesous. 2) Christos is "Anointed." 3) Elohim is "Gods plural." See: Judg 10.6, John 10.34, Ps 82.6. 4) Yahweh is "He Is." HYHA is "I Am"; Ex 3.14. HWHY is "He Is"; Gen 2.4; 6000 times. hoaryhead |
Bible Answer: In the Hebrew Scriptures or "Old Testament" of the Bible, the name of God is found almost 7000 times in the form of the Tetragrammeton, meaning "four letter". This is translatd as "Jehovah". This name "Jehovah" is the best known English pronunciation of the divine name, although "Yahweh" is favored by most Hebrew scholars. The oldest Hebrew manuscripts present the name in the form of four consonants that may be transliterated into English as YHWH (or, JHVH). The Hebrew consonants of the name are therefore known. The question is, Which vowels are to be combined with those consonants? Vowel points did not come into use in Hebrew until the second half of the first millennium C.E. Furthermore, because of a religious superstition that had begun centuries earlier, the vowel pointing found in Hebrew manuscripts does not provide the key for determining which vowels should appear in the divine name. Thus, the name of God as Jehovah is used in many Bibles and has became the accepted pronunciation of the divine name in English. This retains the essential elements of God's name from the Hebrew original. Thus, Exodus 3:15 says: "And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you. This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." (Darby's Bible ) Even the Greek name Jesus corresponds to the Hebrew Yeshua or Yehohshua and means "Jehovah Is Salvation". |
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