YAHWEH's Holy and Sacred Name
YAHWEH's Holy and Sacred Name,
YHWH is very specific about It!
The Name of G-d
When dealing with the subject of G-d, it helps to clear up confusion to remember that G-d exists simultaneously in two realms. G-d exists in the uncreated realm and the created realm at the same time.
The name of G-d deals with the Created Realm
Shemoth (Exodus) 3:13 Then Moshe said to G-d, "Indeed, when I come to the children of Yisrael and say to them, "The G-d of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they say to me, "What is His Name?' what shall I say to them?" 14- And G-d said to Moshe, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Yisrael, "I AM has sent me to you."' 15- Moreover G-d said to Moshe, "Thus you shall say to the children of Yisrael: "The L-RD G-d of your fathers, the G-d of Abraham, the G-d of Isaac, and the G-d of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.' NKJV
This is the common translation of these verses as rendered in the New King James Version. Here is a more accurate translation of this same verse without changing G-d's name from the original Hebrew but using the English alphabet spelling.
This is MY NAME forever,
and this is MY memorial to all generations.
"And Moshe said to YAHWEH: behold when I
come to the children of Yisrael and say to them: the Elohim (Almighty
One) of your fathers has sent me to you; and they say to me; 'What is
His Name?' What shall I say to them? And Elohim said to Moshe: EHYEH
ASHER EHYEH! (I shall be what I shall be!). And he said: say thus to the
children of Israel: EHYEH (I shall be) has sent me to you. And Elohim
again said to Moses: Thus shall you say to the children of Israel: YHWH,
the Elohim of you fathers, "Elohey Abraham", "Elohey Yishaq" we "Elohey
Ya'aqob" has sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is My
Mention to all generations!"
EHYEH is the first person singular,
simple future tense of the Hebrew verb HAYAH, to be. You may recognize
this word as being commonly translated as 'was' in Bereshith (Genesis)
1:2.
Another way to translate this is 'I am becoming what I am
becoming'
Strong's Concordance #1261 - hayah. A prime root to
exist, be, become or come to pass.
Another translation would be:
I bring to pass what I bring to pass.
These are all more
meaningful than simply I Am What I Am.
This expanded meaning is
consistent with The Reluctant Messenger's view that we are the part of
G-d that is growing and becoming our true destiny as G-d's children. In
other words, G-d is still becoming whatever it is G-d is becoming
through us.
Another common misconception involves YAHWEH.
G-d said this is my name forever.
It is quite interesting how
most of the English Bibles have come to translate YHWH as L-RD.
After the Exile ( 6th century BC), especially from the 3rd. century BC
on, Jews ceased to use the name YAHWEH for two very different reasons.
As Judaism began to become a universal religion through its
proselytizing in the Greco-Roman world, the more common noun elohim
(q.v.) meaning 'G-d' tended to replace YAHWEH to demonstrate the
universal sovereignty of Yisrael's G-d over all others. At the same
time, the divine name was increasingly regarded as too sacred to be
uttered; it was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the
Hebrew word Anonai (My Lord), which was translated as Kyrios (Lord) in
the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament.
Have you ever wondered why some Jewish sects consider it blasphemy to use any name for G-d except YHWH?
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We are specifically
commanded by Scripture to use the true Name of the Creator (see Devarim
(Deuteronomy) 6:13; 10:21, Tehillim (Psalms) 105:1, First Chronicles
23:12 for only a very few examples.)! According to Joel 3:5 (Hebrew
Text) deliverance is to be had ONLY by calling upon this name! Some
claim that it is a desecration of the Name to have it used so
familiarly. No! It is a desecration to substitute a lesser title (as
ADONAY, My Supreme L-rd, applied to YHWH 134 times in the Hebrew text,
but never to be substituted for YHWH) for the Creator's Name. We would
not have been commanded by YHWH Himself to bless and swear by His name
if this implied desecration of disrespect. Therefore, walking in the
light of this truth, we must realize that there is NO room for the use
or mention of any of the names of pagan gods in conjunction with the
Name YAHWEH. Calling upon Jesus - alias YAHSHUA, YESHUA, YAHVAHSHUA, - the
master, the "messiah", the unknown G-d, the trinity, the "son" of G-d,
G-d the son, etc. is idolatry and incompatible with calling upon YAHWEH.
It is NOT enough to pronounce, those who have taken to themselves
ANOTHER (beside YAHWEH). I shall NOT offer their blood-drink offerings
(the lord's supper) nor mention their name with my lips!" Tehillim
(Psalms) 16:4. "And make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let
it be heard out of your mouth!" Shemoth (Exodus) 23:13. "The gods that
have NOT made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the
earth and from under the heavens." YermeYah (Jeremiah) 10:11.
Source: karaite-korner.org
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Another common misconception is that it has been lost forever how to pronounce YAHWEH.
The Encyclopedia Britannica comments:
"Early Christian writers, such as Clement of Alexandria in the 2nd
century, had used the form YAHWEH, thus this pronunciation of the
Tetragrammaton was never really lost. Greek transcriptions also
indicated that YAHWEH should be pronounced YAHWEH," 15th Edition, Vol. X,
p. 786.
Here is what the noted Encyclopedia Judaica says about
this issue: "The true pronunciation of the name YAHWEH was never lost.
Several early Greek writers of the Christian Church testify that the
name was pronounced ‘YAHWEH.’ This is confirmed, at least for the vowels
of the first syllable of the name, by the shorter form Yah, which is
sometimes used in poetry (e.g., Ex. 15:2) and the yahu or yah that
serves as the final syllable in very many Hebrew names," Vol. 7, p. 680.
Mark and Rogers’ A Beginners Handbook To Biblical Hebrew on page 7
reads: Originally Hebrew had no written vowels; the following
consonants, however, were often used to indicate long vowels: a, h, w,
y.
The yothe = y, he = h, and waw = w, which are used in YAHWEH’s
Name are understood as being consonants which can be merged into vowels.
Vowel sounds are spoken with the mouth open.
Fagnani and
Davidson’s Hebrew Primer and Grammar states on page 10: The four letters
a, h, w, y may lose their consonantal force and be merged into vowels.
According to a first century historian the pronunciation
consisted of four vowel sounds. Pronounced 'E' as in He, 'A' as in
Father, 'U' like the 'u' in true and and the final 'A' vowel sound,
because it comes at the end of the word is a long 'A', as in faith. This
becomes easy to remember in our English language, with these few words:
'He, Father, True, Faith'.
There are three Hebrew Alphabets that
have a permanently long sound in their pronunciation. Is it coincident
that these three letters happen to be the Yôdh the Hë and the Wãw ? Also
we know that the emphasis in Hebrew is most of the time on the last
syllable, this would make the Name phonetically sound like:
E
Yah ew Wáy. e a u a Long e, short a, long u, and long a.
(E like
in in the letter 'e' but shorter and immediately joint to the next yah
sounds like: yarn , ew like in: new, but less pronounced, more the
phonetic 'w' sound immediately joined to , way just like: in hey)
Notes:
EL.
1) G-d, G-d-like one, mighty one
1a) mighty men, men of rank, mighty
heroes
1b) angels
1c) G-d, false G-d, (demons, imaginations)
1d) G-d, the one true G-d, Jehovah
ELOWAH
1) G-d
2)
false G-d
ELOHIM (plural of Elowah.)
1a) rulers, judges
1b) divine ones
1c) angels
1d) G-ds
2) (plural intensive -
singular meaning)
2a) G-d, G-ddess (See I Kings 11:5).
2b) G-dlike
one
2c) works or special possessions of G-d
2d) the (true) G-d
YAHWEH is very specific about HIS NAME.
HE commands that HIS people call on HIM by the only NAME that ensures
yeshua. The New Testament Book of Acts tells us, "Neither is there
yeshua in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved," Ma'aseh Shlichim (Acts) 4:12.
This is the same thing as the various descriptive titles for YHWH that
some erroneously think are names, like eloah ("mighty one"), el shaddai
("the all-powerful") and adon/adonai ("sovereign"). Others are confused
by attributions that are sometimes used in connection with His Name,
like YAHWEH-Yireh ("YAHWEH provides"), YAHWEH-Zidkenu ("YAHWEH our
righteousness") and YAHWEH-Rapha ("YAHWEH our healer").
Regardless of certain titles and attributions, He still
has only one Name YAHWEH. He inspired the prophet YeshaYahu
(Isaiah) in 42:8 to write, "I am YAHWEH: that is MY NAME: and MY honour
will I not give to another, neither MY praise to graven images."
Tehillim (Psalms) 83:18 confirms that HE has but one NAME: "That men may
know that YOU, whose NAME alone is YAHWEH, are the most high over all
the earth." Nowhere in the pages of the Bible can we find a statement
saying HE has many names. But we can find many passages attesting to HIS
one true NAME.
Yoel (Joel) 2:31-32 'The sun will be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day
of YAHWEH comes. And whoever will CALL WITH THE NAME OF YAHWEH will be
delivered; for in Mount Zion in Yerusalem there will be deliverance, as
YAHWEH has said, among the remnant who has escaped of those whom YAHWEH
calls.
Timtheous Alef (1 Timothy) 6:16 'Who alone has
immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; Whom
no man has seen, nor can see; to Whom belongs honour and power
everlasting. HalleluYAHWEH! Praise YAHWEH!'
In today's modern
translations, ALL the place names and the personal names, which
originally bore the honour of YAHWEH's NAME, have been changed; every
trace of YAHWEH's NAME is hidden. The result of this is: a student
can read the majority of the later English translations of the
Scriptures, and the NAME of the ONLY ONE Who inspired those Scriptures
to be written, is not even hinted at!
According to the inspired prophecies, the MESSIYAH'S NAME was to MEAN: YAHWEH is Salvation; which is exactly what the NAME YAHSHUA means!
YAHSHUA means "YHWH is Yeshua" (Strong's).
The Saviour was NAMED YAHSHUA because that is what the malak (angel) said
it was supposed to mean. YAHSHUA literally means YHWH is yeshua: "HE (YHWH)
shall save HIS (YHWH's) people from their sins." Tehillim (Psalm) 100 and
Strong's concordance or your dictionary will confirm this fact.
MESSIYAH
was YHWH in the flesh.
What about Jehovah? According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1991 under the heading "YAHWEH", here is how this name came into being:
"The Masoretes, who from about the 6th to the 10th century worked to
reproduce the original text of the Hebrew Bible, replaced the vowels of
the NAME YHWH with the vowel signs of the Hebrew word Adonai or Elohim.
Thus the artificial name Jehovah (YeHoWaH) came into being."
Other verses in Scripture with YAHWEH and name:
Bereshith (Genesis) 4:26, 12:8, 13:4, 21:33, 22:14, 26:25, Shemoth (Exodus)) 3:15, 15:3, 17:15, 20:7, 33:19, 34:5,14, Vayiqra (Leviticus) 18:21, 19:12, 22:2,32, 24:11,16, Devarim (Deuteronomy)) 5:11, 6:13, 10:8, 10:20,12:11, 14:23-24, 16:2,6,11, 18:5,7,22, 21:5, 26:2, 28:58, 32:3, Yahshua Ben Nun (Joshua) 9:9, Schmuel Alef (1 SchmuEl) 12:22, 17:45, 20:42, Schmuel Bet (2 SchmuEl) 6:2,18, 7:26, 22:50, Melechim Alef (Kings) 3:2, 5:3,5, 8:17,18,20,44, 9:3, 10:1, 14:21, 18:24, 18:32, 22:16, Divre Hayamim Alef (1 Chronicles) 13:6, 16:2,8,10,29, 17:24, 21:19, 22:7,8,19, 23:13, 29:16, 2 Divre Hayamim Bet- (2 Chronicles) 2:1,4, 6:7,8,10, 12:13, 14:11, 18:15, 33:4, 33:18, NechemYah (Nehemiah) 9:5, Iyob (Job) 1:21, Tehillim (Psalms) 7:17, 8:1,9, 9:10, 18:49, 20:1,:5,7, 25:11, 29:2, 34:3, 54:6, 74:18, 83:16, 86:11, 92:1, 96:2,8, 99:6, 102:15,21, 103:1, 105:1,:3, 106:47, 113:1-3, 115:1,116:4,13,17, 118:10,11,12,26, 119:55, 122:4, 124:8, 129:8, 135:1,13, 143:11, 145:21, 148:5,13, Mishle (Proverbs) 18:10, 30:9, YeshaYahu (Isaiah) 12:4, 14:22, 18:7, 24:15, 25:1, 26:8, 26:13, 30:27, 42:8, 47:4, 48:1-2, 50:10, 51:15, 52:5, 54:5, 56:6, 59:19, 60:9, 63:16, YermeYah (Jeremiah) 3:17, 7:11,30, 10:6,16, 11:21, 12:16, 13:11, 14:7,9,14,15, 15:16, 16:21, 23:6, 25:29, 26:9,16,20, 27:15, 29:9,21,:23,25, 31:35, 32:18, 33:2, 44:16,26, 46:18, 48:15, 50:34, 51:19, 51:57, Echah (Lamentations) 3:55, Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 20:44, 36:20,23, 39:7, 48:35, Yoel (Joel) 2:26,32, Amoz (Amos) 4:13, 5:8,27, 6:10, 9:6,12, Mikah (Micah) 4:5, 5:4, 6:9, TzephanYah (Zephaniah) 3:9,12, ZecharYah (Zechariah) 5:4, 10:12, 13:3,9, 14:9
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