YHVH Hebrew name for God of creation.  There are no vowels in hebrew.  The Jews did not pronounce name because of it being sacred, however, they knew what vowel sounds to use based on sentence structure and context.  The Masoretes in 6th through the 10th century added a system of vowel points to Hebrew language for pronunciation.  but because the name YHVH (v pronounce between v and w), was sacred they took the vowel points from the word Adonay (the a the o and the a) and combined it with the name YHVH and came up with YaHoVaH.  Since there was no such word in Hebrew, the Maoretes knew the reader would be forced to pause and reflect on the idea that it was the sacred name.  Christians believed this was a Hebrew word--put it in their bible name of God.  During reformation Germans changed Y to J, "Jahovah" and later the English Jehovah. from a deliberately concocted word by Masoretes to protect sacrd name using Adonay vowel points combined with YHWH (accurately pronounced Yahweh
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It is true that the Almighty did not say, "Listen, thousands of years from now when a new language called English comes along, they can pronounce my name as 'Jehovah' and that's fine."\n\nInstead, like with any and every personal name, different languages TRANSLATE personal names to fit their lingual tendencies. George becomes "Hor-hey" in Spanish or "Gay-org" in German and no one gets upset.\n\nAs another answer mentions, the same people who get all upset about translating the Hebrew name 'Yahweh' or 'Yehowah' into English as 'Jehovah' have absolutely no such qualms about translating the Hebrew name 'Yeshua' into English as 'Jesus'!\n\nIf you don't like the English translation, no one is telling you that you can't use the Hebrew original of the divine name.
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Messiah is the anglicised form of Mashiach which is Hebrew for anointed. \nChrist is the anglicised form of Christos which is Greek for anointed.\nThe Old Testament was written mainly in Hebrew (a few parts in Aramaic), and the New Testament was written in Greek. \n\nJesus (Greek Iesous) is a transliteration of Joshua (Hebrew Yehoshua) which means the Lord saves.\n\nJesus was his name and Christ/Messiah was his title. \n\nMatthew 1:20-21 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."\n\nJudea & Galilee had been part of the Greek Empire, and was occupied by the Romans at the time Jesus was living there, many of the people would speak Aramaic, but read and discuss the scriptures in Hebrew, so several languages were being used at the same time. This explains why sometimes \n\np.s. some Latin names end in us e.g. Marcus, Julius, Augustus.
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In the original Hebrew there are three different names used for God. There is YHVH (aka the unpronounceable name), Elohim and Adonoy. What's referred to in Genesis 1:26 is Elohim, because it was Elohim who created the world. \n\nNow, the thing to know about Elohim is that it has a plural suffix "im," but it's treated as a singular masculine noun in the Hebrew. Etymologically it appears plural, but grammatically it's treated as a singular. This is highly confusing to say the least.\n\nHowever, in bypassing the paradoxical plurality of God, some scholars have interpreted this particular phrase to mean that God was speaking to the entirety of creation, the US then being all the things that God had to that point brought into creation. Thus, Man is in the image of not just God but of all of creation, the microcosmos.
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An anglicized pronunciation of the Hebrew tetragrammaton, YHWH, which are the four consonant letters used to spell God’s name in the Old Testament (Exodus 3:14). The Hebrews considered the name of God too holy to pronounce and susbstituted the word “Lord” (adonai) when the text was read. The vowels of the word “adonai” was combined with YHWH to get the word “Jehovah” which was first used in the 12th century. A more accurate pronunciation of YHWH would be “Yahweh.
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Not quite\nThe hebrew 6 is Vav (like W), but WWW would be 18, not 666, similar to the way III in Roman is 3 and not 111
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Yashua ben Yoseph (Joshua, the son of Joseph)\n\nYashua {Hebrew-Aramaic} => Iesu(s) {Latin-Greek} => Jesus
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no...in the ancient texts 'god' was Yahweh, Yahsuha means one of Yahweh or something and was his given name, in english it is Joseph actually\n\nJesus is not his name, the letter J is only 500 years old...
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Early Israelite religion was not monotheistic.  You can see that in the earliest chapters of Genesis, Abraham is anointing pillars with oil (a later no-no) and he worships God with various names.  Later, these names were all said to be different names of the one God.  That could be, but it seems more likely, historically, that Monotheism was a slowly developed theology.\n\nMost scholars refer to early Israelite religion as "henotheistic."  This means that the Israelites did believe there were other gods.  But they themselves only worshipped one.  They worshipped the "God of Israel" and other nations would worship the gods of their nations.  Yahweh was the God of Israel.  It seems likely based on historical findings, that Yahweh was a Midianite God of a Mountain.  And Moses who was from that area might have tried to promote Yahweh, and part of the strategy was to subsume the names of other gods that Israelite ancestors had worshipped under the name Yahweh.  \n\nYahweh tells Moses that "to your forefathers I did not make myself known as Yahweh, but as El Shaddai."  (I think that's in Exodus 6).  Before Moses, Israelites worshipped El Shaddai, Elohim, etc.  \n\nThere is a statement in the Bible that says that when "El Elyon (the most High God) was making the nations, he set over each a god, and over Israel he set Yahweh.  Now, this verse has been changed to hide the obvious henotheistic theology.  That had been suspected by scholars for years, but in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the original was recorded, affirming the suspicions.  (the modern day Hebrew text says El Elyon divided up the nations "according to the sons of Israel" which really does not make much sense.  The Dead sea scrolls says, "according to the sons of god."  That would mean that if there were, say, 70 gods, then God divided the people up into 70 nations for each of the sons of god to rule over).  \n\nIt was not until later in the Hebrew Scriptures that Monotheism took shape.  This occurred with the Prophets, such as Isaiah.  Their monotheistic message becomes clearer and clearer.  Now, not only is Israel only to worship the God of Israel, but the God of Israel is the only true God in all the world.\n \nThis surely must have struck the other pagan nations as arrogant.  Because pagan people are generally tolerant.  "I worship my god, you worship yours.  No problem."  No one rejected the gods of others.  But now, Israel is explicitly rejecting all other gods but their own.\n\nThis unfortunately set the groundwork for intolerance and exclusivism in the religions which would grow out of Judaism -- Christianity and Islam.\n\nBut there is more to the One God idea than just this.  The ancient Greek philosophers reasoned that there was one supreme "good" which we may call God.  The Hindus reasoned that there was only one God, and that God made Himself/Herself known in many different forms and names.  But ultimately, there is only one God.\n\nIt seems that the philosophically minded, and the mystics of several traditions gravitate towards the idea of the One.  They find unity in diversity.  I think it probably just comes from an observation of nature, and noticing that everything seems interconnected in a very fundamental way.
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Short answer:  the BASIC order of our letters goes back through Latin, through Greek to Phoenician and the earliest alphabets invented by speakers of "Northwest Semitic" languages (the group that includes Hebrew).   This order (with modifications necessitated by differences in the languages adapting the letters to their own languages) goes back to at least the mid 2nd millennium BC,  but we really don't know why they did it this way.\n\nIn fact, the very NAME "alphabet" betrays these roots!\n\n-----------------\nFuller answer (hang on!):\n\nThe LATIN letters were derived from a form of the GREEK alphabet, and the term "alphabet"  is based on the first two letters of the Greek alphabet --"alpha" and "beta" (so the idea of the word is the same as "a-b-c's").  But these Greek names are rather odd --meaningless, in fact. Why?  That's because the Greeks borrowed a number of the NAMES for their letters from the source of the letters themselves, the seafaring traders of Phoenicia.   The Phoenicians did not invent this system themselves, but were part of a cluster of related "Semitic" languages spoken centered in the regions later called Syria & Palestine.  The letter-names are derived from actual words which BEGAN with the sound that letter is used to represent (e.g., "aleph", meaning "ox").\n\nWe can actually still see much of the original Semitic order of the letters in the Latin alphabet, and even more in the Greek.   The original letters were at times used to represent a different sound from the original letter, esp when the original letter represented a sound unlike any in the language doing the borrowing.   (This is how the Greeks came up with the first set of VOWELS, which were not part of the original Semitic alphabet.)     The major changes/differences in ORDER were caused when the borrowing language dropped a letter it could not use...  and more often by adding letters needed in the borrower's language.  These new letters were most often added at the end, after "T", the final letter in the Semitic alphabets.  Later, after the early Latin alphabet was well-established, some letters"split" into variants, which were listed next to their "parent" letter.   Thus "I" and "J" come from one letter, "U" "V" and "W" were from one letter.\n\nSo when was did the SEMITIC order of the alphabet come about, and why?     Our earliest proven examples of the letters in the basic order used to this day are clay tablets the list the letters in order (perhaps for training scribes?) from the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit (the language, re-discovered in the 1920s is called "Ugaritic").  These show us that this order existed by at least 1300 BC. (with some additional letters for sounds that  were no longer found in later languages like Phoenician, Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic).\n\n(A few centuries later we find reflections of this order in the Bible.   The clearest examples are "acrostic" poetic passages in which  succeeding verses or sets of verses begins with the next letter of the alphabet. Psalm 119 is the most well-known example of this practice, and many English Bibles even mark the successive stanzas as "Aleph" "Beth", etc. ) \n\nBut we still do not know why they adopted THIS order!    Perhaps there is some ancient lost memory device or set of devices (story?  set of sentences?) in which this particular order was found useful for remembering the various letters.   Perhaps certain sounds were thought easy to group together (think of how "l m n" flows for us).      Many believe the inventors of the alphabet were speakers of a Semitic language living in or near Egypt.    So it is possible that the IDEA for an alphabets owed something to a part of the system of Egyptians hieroglyphics.  In that case, perhaps the gr
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Yes I do wonder.. I wonder what you are trying to say.  I know the Watchtower uses Ps 83:18 to say we have to use the name Jehovah when talking about GOD as if GOD is too dumb to know who we are referring to.   In reality, they even admit that Jehovah was not GOD's name but since they had millions of things printed before realizing that, they had to stick with it.  Yahweh is far more accurant but in reality GOD has many names but the name HE is most accurately know by is I AM.  This is the same name JESUS used for Himself in John 8:24   \n\nMore important, GOD wants a relationship with us far more then a formal agreement.  My kids knew I was their dad long before they knew my NAME!
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House of Yahudah(Judah) the original Hebrew.
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Here is the Tetragrammaton of God's name:   יהוה \n\n\nIt is too much to copy and paste . . . so there is it clean and simple . . . If you want to read . . . read the sources.
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Psalm 83:18 does say Gods name is Jehovah. In the original hebrew manuscripts the tetragramaton appeared almost 7000 times. Over the years many bible translators have removed the name Jehovah because some religions believe that the name is too sacred to pronounce. \n\nCould you really call someone who you don't know their name your best friend or even friend? Jehovah God tells us we can draw close to him and he wants us to use his name. \n\nOn the official web site of Jehovah's Witnesses there is a part that explains more. www.watchtower.org
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To be precise, the original name was "Ba`al Zebul".  This was an honorific title "the Lord, the Prince", that the Phoenicians used for their god not his name; his "proper name"was Hadad.  ("Zebulon" is, however, a Hebrew word from the same root.)\n\nNow keep in mind that to the people of Israel the worship of this god of the Phoenicians, and the various practices that went with that practice, was undermining the worship of THEIR God (Yhwh, traditionally "the LORD").  So don' be surprised if they didn't want to use this flattering title for him!!\n\nSo what happened at some point is that speakers or perhaps later scribes who did not want to write such a name for this god of the pagans made a slight change, a wordplay, on the name, changing it to "Ba`al Zebub",  or "Lord of the flies".\n\nActually, the original name DID persist, and the NT writers use the old form which comes through Greek as "Beelzeboul"  (though the variant Beelzeboub, our modern "Beelzebub" is also found).\n\nDo note that the use of this name for a DEMON, in fact for THE demon par excellence --"Satan"--  came MUCH later than the OT uses of "Ba`al Zebub", at a time when the worshp of the OT "Baal" storm and fertitiliy gods had died out.  In other words, by the time it became an alternate name for "the Devil" no one was even worshiping the old fertility God.\n\n(On the importance of this god -- we have many examples of this title "the Prince" used for him in ancient tablets from the Phoenician coast [the ancient port city of Ugarit].  These tablets also help to demonstrate that the name of Queen JEZEBEL, daughter of a Phoenician king, actually means "Where is the Prince?"   It is a cry of worship, calling for this god to come and act.   The same sort of expression is used by Elisha in 2 Kings 2, where he calls out "Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?" when calling on God to part the wates of the Jordan.)
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the name given to the Bible  is called "Injiel". such as Torah is for children of Israel. and Quran is for the muslims. \n\n God mentioned in the Quran that the earth and heavens created in 6 days, then  He rose over his Throne. sadly there is errors in the Bible translation, they translate "ROSE OVER HIS THROWN" as "TAKING A REST", which is wrong. \none day to God is equal to 1000 years. \n\n[54] Indeed your Lord is Allâh, Who created the heavens and the earth in Six Days, and then He rose over (Istawâ) the Throne (really in a manner that suits His Majesty). He brings the night as a cover over the day, seeking it rapidly, and (He created) the sun, the moon, the stars subjected to His Command. Surely, His is the Creation and Commandment. Blessed be Allâh, the Lord of the 'Alamîn (mankind, jinn and all that exists)! \nQuran 7:54
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The Romans didn't use the letters Y or J, but they pronounced J like "iye", so, for example, the Roman god of doors, Janus, is pronounced "iyanus". So yes, anything that starts with a J is pronounced with a Y.
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I agree with you, depending upon your language preference it varies, but his name is Jehovah , or JHVH, or in hebrew Yahweh YHWH, it used to be in most bibles but today it's been removed from most