Why do people think God' s name is Jehovah?
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In the Hebrew OT, YHWH (still to close to the name of God for Hebrews to feel safe) was frequently replaced with Adonai - Hebrew for "Lord." (which is why the Greek NT uses Kurios - "Lord").  Your 13th Century monk used the vowled from Adonai with YHWH to form YaHoWaH - but in Ecclesiastical Latin 'J' and 'W' did not exist, so it became Jaehovah.\n\nMajor literary works, like the KJV, do as much to create language as to use the existing language.  So now, in English, Jehovah is the word for the name of God; in Hebrew it's YHWH.  Just like my name is Mark in English, Marco in Italian, and Maruku in Japanese - people use the letters and sounds available to them within the structure of their own language.
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This is so, because, The god of this system of things is Satan the devil(2Corinthians4:4 and he is blinding the minds of people to not believe or see the truth and follow him and his way rather than listen to the true God Jehovah this is because Satan has inspired many religions so that if he doesn't get you with one he will with another and in this way he has camouflaged the true religion that is inspired by the true God Jehovah!
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And not at all in the Hebrew Bible.\n\nHowever, the KJV (A.V.) almost always used the "LORD" [usually that is a large capital "L" and small capitals "ORD" to indicate it is God's name, the "I AM", the tetragrammaton, which others mis-translate as "Jehovah".
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There is a true God, who has as many definitions as there are people - and then there is a biblical god Jehovah, who was an ancient desert-people deity of storms and thunder who later became elevated to the god of the Jews. Few people ever consider the idea that the genuine "Creator" or "Almighty" is only seen in tiny, rare glimpses in the bible. The real God is in truth and science, and in the highest levels of human logic and understanding. Christians do a disservice to the true God by believing all the mythologies about hellfire and the wrath of Jehovah, but Christianity is a religion as much about mindless obedience born out of fear as it is about salvation and love.
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From:  King James Bible\n\nExodus 6:3  And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.\n\nPsalms 83:18  That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.\n\nIsaiah 12:2  Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.\n\nIsaiah 26:4  Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:\n\nGod’s reply in Hebrew was: ’Eh·yeh′ ’Asher′ ’Eh·yeh′. Some translations render this as “I AM THAT I AM.” However, it is to be noted that the Hebrew verb ha·yah′, from which the word ’Eh·yeh′ is drawn, does not mean simply “be.” Rather, it means “become,” or “prove to be.” The reference here is not to God’s self-existence but to what he has in mind to become toward others.
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I am one of those people! Sorry; it's such a habit that I'm not aware of it.\nIn Judaism, G-d's Name is so sacred & holy that it is never written out. We don't even say His Name. The terms you may hear others use such as YHVH or Jehovah are highly offensive & never used because they are inaccurate.\nWhen Jewish people pray, we use the term "Ha Shem" which literally means "The Name". We may also use the term "Adonai" which means "L-rd".\nHope this helps!\nAnd, it's wrong for me to write the word "Adonai". For me to write it like Jews do, it needs to be missing a vowel, but you'd then ask what THAT means!!!!!!!!!!! It should say "Ad-nai".
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Jehovah isn't his name it is a title.     \n\n It is called the unspeakable name, because God told them not to take his name in vain.  This is because the name of God has power.    Since it is so powerful to speak it  nonchalantly causes a "waste" of the power of his name.   The people back in Moses' day were so scared of taking that name in vain, the never spoke it.   They called him Jehovah, or the God.   The would not even write it.  If they felt it necessary to write it they left out letters.   \n\nPeople too freely speak the name of Christ now days (myself included.)   We should hold it more sovereign than we do.   There is power in the name of Christ.
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Probably because you call him G-D, call him by his name "Yah" short for Yahweh and he will answer. Calling him G-D could mean any God. He answers to his name, That why he tells it to us over 6,000 times. "whatever you ask in his name he will do"
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Jews do that... in the Old Testament it says "Thou shalt not take the "LORD GOD'S" Name in vain.  Jews have a very strict "law" that prohibits from using the name of god (which, btw, is NOT lord god, nor is it GOD).  But out of respect they decline from using GOD altogether and instead use G_D or something similar.
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"God" is a title.  Most christians unknowingly follow an old jewish custom of not saying God's name, which in english is Jehovah.\n\nMost modern day translations of the Bible have taken the name out and replaced it with GOD, LORD, or other such titles.  Most bibles even explain their reasonings in the forward.\n\nYou can actually find the name used in the King James Version at Psalm 83:18, Exodus 6:3, Isaiah 12:2, and Isaiah 26:4
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So how does someone's name have anything to do with myth and superstition?\n\nAnyway, as others have pointed out, the name of Immanuel is more of a descriptor than a birth name.  It's a lot like the man born as Sidartha came to be know as The Buddha or just buddha, meaning "enlightened one".  \n\nJust because you don't believe what someone else does, it doesn't make all your counter arguments right.  I think it's being petty to pick apart every detail such as names and nicknames and hold it up as proving or disproving the existence of God or the nature of Jesus.
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I am one of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses.  We are more familiarly known as Jehovah's witnesses, but we are Christian as we believe in what Jesus said. Jehovah is God's name.  The Tetragrammaton (There is no font to write the actual 4 lettered name) appears in the original bible text more than 7000 times but has been removed from most translations as it is supersticiously thought to be too holy to utter.  Jesus is God's first and only begotten angelic son, created untold ages before man.\n\nWe believe that man's home, the Earth, is where we were meant to be all along.  The free gift we recieve if we want it is everlasting life on Earth, not in heaven - although some do go there to rule with Jesus as kings and priests.  There are many other things we believe - it's from the Bible, ask one of us for more information.
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To answer this question, we need to go back to the tetragrammaton, YHWH.\n\nThese were the letters used to designate the Divine Name.  They appeared in the bible more than 6,000 times in the Old Testament alone.  The exact pronunciation has been lost, so we don't know exactly how it's pronounced.  To be fair, most of the original pronunications have been lost and all the pronunciations we have today are what they have evolved into.  With that said, the Common pronunciation of YHWH is Yahweh in Hebrew, Yah for short.  There are other pronunciations such as Yeowha, Yevah, Yeohwah, etc.\n\nThe Common English translation is Jehovah.  This name can be seen in many or the names of the bible.  EliJAH, AdoniJAH, etc.  There are many debates about the use of either name, and more people seem to prefer Yahweh to Jehovah, but my personal believe is that Yahweh is incompatable with the English translated names.  If we use the Hebrew Yahweh, then it stands to reason that we should use the Hebrew for the other names as well.\n\nJesus was NOT Jesus name in the bible.  At least, not his original name.  Jesus pertains to the son.  The NT was written in Greek, and his name was pronounced roughly Ieosous.  Christ was proncounced Christos.  Jesus is actually a degredation of the the name from Greek to our modern day English.  Yeshua, also appropriately pronounced Yehoshua, are the Hebrew forms of Ieosous, or Jesus, and are appropriately translated into Joshua.  This name means literally "Jehovah is Salvation," and is used to draw attention back to Jehovah the Supreme Being.\n\nSo Jehovah is God, Jesus is the son.  Jesus was probably there during the time the Proverbs were written, but it was most likely Jehovah who was being refered to.
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the long hair and skirts are another religion,we don't lie,we do take no for an answer,we go with the Bible and that is the whole basis of our beliefs,Ps.83:18 will tell you who Jehovah is,He has witnessed all things by mankind.why did you ask that question? you need help with your hate issue,most the people here don't hate.but,this is satans world,never can tell how some people will spread his emotion of choice.
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"god" little "g" is a descriptive term.\n"God" big "G" is a proper noun and the common name that Christians use to address God.\n\nThere are numerous other names for God, for example:\nthe Great IAM, the Lord Almighty, the Creator, the Lord of Hosts, Father, the God of Abraham, Master, Father, Savior, and the list goes on.  \n\nThis follows Jewish tradition not to utter the true name of God, because the Name is holy (holy enough to need to capitalize the word "Name"), and to utter it is to risk using his Name in vain and there by breaking the 2nd Commandment.\n\nThe true pronounciation of the name of God from Genesis (YHWH) is actually a mystery, since you will never get a Hebrew to say the Name.  Most scholars believe it is pronounced "Yahweh" but no one knows for sure.\n\nThere is one name of God that everyone knows... Jesus.\n\n(Or Yeshua by the Hebrews, Jesu / Yesu by non-English speakers)\n\nA name is just how you know someone... the name is not as important as how well you know that Someone. ;)
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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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jews can say jehovah it's not even his name his name is Yah(Yahweh) the israelites didn't want to say his name, god never told them not to say his name.\n\nPsalm 79:5-6"How long, LORD? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire? Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy NAME.\nJeremiah 10:25"Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy NAME:\n\nGod always declare his name "i am the LORD(YHWH) thy God" call on him by another name is forbidden "for he is a jealous God and his Glory shall not be give unto another" or another name. his name is use 6,823 times and yall say he don't like us to use it. If he didn't want us to use it why tell Moses his name to teach to the israelites. Please don't do what the Israelites did, because God curse he, see they gave there land away and nobody knows what happen to the 12 tribes of Israel, do what they did recieve there punishment.