One God, many names
YHWH
The Tetragrammaton.
The four letters throughout the Bible, translated as "The LORD."
Yahweh
You shall not take the Name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Exodus 20:24
Ahyah Asher Ahyah
"I Am that I Am" or "I Shall Be that I Shall Be"
Yah
The Short Poetic form of Yahweh
Adonai
Title, Lord
El Shaddai
God Almighty
Elohim
Divine Being
El Elyon
God Most High
Yahweh Elohim
Yahweh My God
Yahweh Yireh
Yahweh Our Provider
Yahweh Nissi
Yahweh Our Banner
Yahweh Shalom
Yahweh Our Peace
Yahweh Sabaoth
Yahweh Commander of Heavenly Armies
Yahweh M'Kaddesh
Yahweh Our Sanctifier
Yahweh Raah
Yahweh My Shepherd
Yahweh Tsidkenu
Yahweh Our Righteousness
Yahweh Shammah
Yahweh is Present
Yahweh Rapha
Yahweh Our Healer
Yahweh El Olam
Yahweh God Everlasting
Yahweh El Gibhor
Yahweh Mighty God
Yahweh Asah
Yahweh Our Maker
Immanuel
God with Us
Yahshua
Yahweh is Salvation
Adonai Yahweh El Shaddai
Lord Yahweh God Almighty. For many years it was appropriate to say: "We don't really know the correct and proper Name of God, as it has been lost, and we definitely don't know how to pronounce it." That is not true today, due to archeological finds, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a better concept of history, and understanding of scripture and the Hebrew language.
The Jewish scholars of Judaism, both primitive and modern, also, are more open in admitting why the Masoretes hid the Name of God, a Name too sacred — they believed — for even Jews to pronounce, let alone outsiders, foreigners, and heathen. When the Tetragrammaton is combined with the vowels of Hebrew "Adonai," a name is produced "that cannot be pronounced," not because it is too holy, but because it is literally impossible to pronounce (in English it has been transliterated as "Jehovah").
"Blessed be Abram of God Most High," says the king-priest of Salem. Israelite tradition recorded Abraham as responding in the name of his own God. "I swear to YHWH" -- possibly pronounced Yahweh, not Jehovah, and never spoken by devout Jews — "God Most High."
"Erroneously written and pronounced Jehovah, which is merely a combination of the sacred Tetragrammaton and the vowels in the Hebrew word for Lord, substituted by the Jews for JHVH, because they shrank from pronouncing The Name, owing to an old misconception of the two passages, Ex. 20:7 and Lev. 24:16...To give the name JHVH the vowels of the word for Lord [Heb. Adonai], is about as hybrid a combination as it would be to spell the name Germany with the vowels in the name Portugal - viz., Gormuna. The monstrous combination Jehovah is not older than about 1520 A.D."
"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 words Adonai or Elohim. Thus, the artificial name Jehovah (YeHoWaH) came into being. Although Christian scholars after the Renaissance and Reformation periods used the term Jehovah for YHWH, in the 19th and 20th centuries biblical scholars again began to use the form Yahweh. Early Christian writers, such as Clement of Alexandria in the 2nd century, had used a form like Yahweh, and this pronunciation of the tetragrammaton was never really lost. Other Greek transcriptions also indicated that YHWH should be pronounced Yahweh.
God bless you and your family!
Art et Amour Toujours
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