How come Jehovah is only mentioned 3 times in the bible and god is mentioned numorous times
2006-06-10 15:25:56 · 15 answers · asked by chuck s 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and Jehovah is his real name
2006-06-10 15:26:43 · update #1
Unknown other than God has many names in Hebrew. There are no "J"s in the Hebrew alphabet.
GOD’S NAME
The Massorah has a rubric calling attention to these first 4 acrostics. This locks in the name of God according to Hebrew and Biblical scholars. The name also being spelled backwards for Divine reasons, a subject for another time.
Est.1:20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
( shall give to their husbands honour both to great and small ) Hebrew ( Hi Vekal Hannashim Yittenu ) HVHY
Est.5:4 And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
( let the king and Haman come this day ) Hebrew ( Yabo Hammelek Vehaman Hayyom ) YHVH
Est.5:13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
( this availeth me nothing ) Hebrew ( zeH eynennV shoveH leY ) HVHY
Est.7:7 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
( that there was evil determined against him ) Hebrew ( kY kalethaH elayV haraaH ) YHVH
Also a 5th acrostic of “ I am”, ( I am that I am ) Hebrew ( ehyeh asher ehyeh ) Exo.3:14
Est.7:5 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
( Who is he, and where is he ) Hebrew ( huE zeH veeY zeH ) EHYH “I am”
The Massorah has a special rubric calling attention this acroustic.
Psa.96:11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
Hebrew ( Yismehu Hashshamayim Vethagel Haarez ) YHVH
2006-06-10 15:31:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
First, Do you realize that "Jehovah" is a mistranslation of Yahweh. When this one guy who was translating the scriptures/some texts he misread Yhwh as being Jehovah instead of being Yahweh?
As far as how many times something is mentioned in the Bible, I'm not sure. Go ask a theologian or someone like that.
2006-06-10 15:35:51 · answer #2 · answered by akknaley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear Chuck,
The Bible refers to YHWH as being the name of God. An approximate pronounciation is Yahweh, not Jehovah.
The Bible uses the name YHWH for God many many times (in the Hebrew Old Testament). Out of respect for God, this has been translated into the English as LORD (Lord spelled in all capitals), in the King James Version of the Bible.
Cordially,
John
2006-06-10 15:34:05 · answer #3 · answered by John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah is God in a different language. Haha. You think that all over the world, in a million different languages, God is the only same word? haha. God is English translation, they usually say Jehovah when people back then were actually speaking.
2006-06-10 15:30:32 · answer #4 · answered by bballsistaKT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because men wrote the bible and men have translated it and edited it for centuries. Men are fallible even when claiming to be inspired by Jehovah or God.
2006-06-10 15:29:12 · answer #5 · answered by nquizzitiv 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
during translation from the original languages,they took out Jehovah's name some 7 thousand times and replaced it with Jehovah's many titles.God is a title,lord is a title,mr. is a title,would you like people to call you by a title, or would you want to have them call you by name?anyway,there is your answer.
2006-06-10 15:32:44 · answer #6 · answered by vieja 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
*coughs* Yeshua is the original Aramaic proper name for Jesus the Nazarene, who lived from about 6 B.C.E. to 27 C.E. (A.D.) The word "Jesus" is actually a mis-transliteration of a Greek mis-transliteration. The Emperor Constatine even mistook Jesus for Apollo, the son of the Greek god Zeus. In Hebrew Yeshua means Salvation while the name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English whatsoever.
And I'm not even Christian and I knew that.....
2006-06-10 15:34:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the translation.
The original manuscripts seem to have used the divine name nearly 7000 times in the Holy Scriptures. It seems that superstition and Satanic influence have played a large role in working to erase that name from usage.
2006-06-11 18:14:59 · answer #8 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah is whos real name?
2006-06-10 15:29:07 · answer #9 · answered by got2know 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the bible is a work of fiction, just written by some really bad writers, now if say clive barker or stephen king would have written the bible it would have been understandable and entertaining
2006-06-10 15:34:39 · answer #10 · answered by Jrizzt J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋