The LORD’s Name is YEHOVAH
A Study of God’s name, Yehovah.
God’s name is the four-letter Hebrew word יהוה YHVH Yehovah, which are embedded in the Masoretic text over 6000 times, yet when translated into our English language most had been translated as Lord, or LORD, which are titles, but not His name. His name is the Tetragrammaton יהוה Yehovah, or YEHOVAH (but there are no capital letters in Hebrew).
It wasn’t until 1524 that Gian Giorgio Trissino, an Italian Renaissance grammarian, invented the letter ‘J’ that this new letter started to take a hold in the writings of western Europe, including our English language. Even in 1611 when the first edition English Bible, the King James was published, the prophet Jeremiah was known as Ieremiah. Similarly, the name Jehovah is a very late comer.
But the Orthodox Jews have gone overboard, so holy is His name, they believe, thus they refrain from even calling His name, referring to him as HaShem, that is, “The Name,” which isn’t His name. His name is Yehovah, and is also not Yahweh, which is the counterfeit Samaritan version of using His name.
It is the same with the name Jesus we used today; His name in the 1611 King James version is Iesus; and further back if His name was used in His time two thousand years ago, He would have been known as Yeshua instead of Iesus. But never mind, as had often been the case, the essence is far more important than the form.
But God, the Father, His name Yehovah, is specifically stated, and should be used. The following verses translated as the LORD erred in translation. Titles are okay, but sometimes He asked us pointedly to call on His name:
I am the LORD; that is My name. And My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to graven images. Isaiah 42:8
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. Joel 2:32
“I am sought of them that asked not for Me; I am found of them that sought Me not. I said, ‘Behold Me, behold Me,’ unto a nation that was not called by My name. Isaiah 65:1
When we call our God, the LORD, we err, because his name is not the LORD, which is a title. His name is YEHOVAH!
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