Who is Yahweh??

Question

Who os Yahweh ?? Is He a GOD or the main GOD??

Answer 1

Yahweh is not a name. Nor is Jehovah a name. When Moses asked God in the burning bush, "If the people ask who sent me unto them, what shall I say is His name?"

God replied from the burning bush: "I Am Who Am, tell them I Am has sent you unto them..." Yahweh means, "I Am Who Am." If God has a name, it has not been revealed to us. "Jehovah" is a mistransliteration of the Hebrew word "Y-hw-h, or Yahweh."

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Answer 2

A study of the Bible shows that its Author appreciated the value of his name. Among his many titles are “the true God,” “the Most High,” “Sovereign Lord,” “Grand Creator” and “King of eternity.” In addition to these titles he has a distinctive name, sometimes referred to as the Tetragrammaton. It is so designated because of its four Hebrew letters that correspond to the English letters YHWH, or JHVH, the consonants forming the basis of the name “Jehovah.”—Gen. 5:22; Ps. 83:18; 69:6; Eccl. 12:1; 1 Tim. 1:17.

But how shall this Tetragrammaton be pronounced? The exact Hebrew pronunciation of it has been lost, since in ancient times Hebrew contained no written vowels and the pronunciation was handed down by word of mouth. By and large, there are two forms in use: “Yahweh,” with the accent on the second syllable, and “Jehovah.” Concerning the form “Jehovah,” a Jesuit writer says: “It is disconcerting to see the divine name written as Jehovah, a 16th-century . . . error for Jahweh.”—America, Nov. 27, 1971, p. 460.

Answer 3

The most ancient traditions declare that God was first known to Israel under the personal name Jehovah (Yahweh (YHWH) is the correct form of the word, Jehovah being a composite of the consonants of Yahweh and the vowels of 'ădhōnāy, or lord. Yahweh is retained here as the more familiar form).

Answer 4

But Moses said: ‘I am nobody. How can I do this? But suppose I do go. The Israelites will say to me, “Who sent you?” Then what shall I say?’

‘This is what you are to say,’ God answered. YHWH the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob has sent me to you.”’ And YHWH added: ‘This is my name forever.’

Yahweh is God's name in hebrew with the additional vowels. Hebrew do not have the vowels so it is written only as YHWH, the tetragammaton or the hebrew verb 'to be.' God's name means ' “I shall prove to be what I shall prove to be.”

This name appears more thatn 7000 times in the original scriptures but has been omitted and changed to Lord or God in today's translation.

As the name of God, he let Moses knew of it and all the people as an assurance that they will call on any other gods' names.

Today, the name is transliterated into the form Jehovah, Jahova, Yehowa, depending on the language.

Answer 5

It is the Hebrew name of God, Jehovah is the Anglo saxonized name of God.

Just like John is English, Juan is Spanish, Johann is German, and other various pronounciation depending on the language use.

You heard of Joshua and Jesus from the Bible but both names are the same coming from Yehoshua. The difference is Jesus was translated from the ChristianGreek Srciptures which translated Yehoshua Hebrew to Greek Iesous, before translating it to Jesus.

Psalm 83:18 (King James Version)
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18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

Answer 6

ONE of the Bible writers asked: "Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of both hands? Who has wrapped up the waters in a mantle? Who has made all the ends of the earth to rise? What is his name and what the name of his son, in case you know?" (Proverbs 30:4) How can we find out what God's name is? That is an important question. The creation is a powerful proof that God must exist, but it does not tell us his name. (Romans 1:20) In fact, we could never know God's name unless the Creator himself told us. And he has done that in his own Book, the Holy Bible.

On one celebrated occasion, God pronounced his own name, repeating it in the hearing of Moses. Moses wrote an account of that event that has been preserved in the Bible down to our day. (Exodus 34:5) God even wrote his name with his own "finger." When he had given Moses what we today call the Ten Commandments, God miraculously wrote them down. The record says: "Now as soon as [God] had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai he proceeded to give Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone written on by God's finger." (Exodus 31:18) God's name appears eight times in the original Ten Commandments. (Exodus 20:1-17) Thus God himself has revealed his name to man both verbally and in writing. So, what is that name?

In the Hebrew language it is written . These four letters, called the Tetragrammaton, are read from right to left in Hebrew and can be represented in many modern languages as YHWH or JHVH. God's name, represented by these four consonants, appears almost 7,000 times in the original "Old Testament," or Hebrew Scriptures.

The name is a form of a Hebrew verb ha·wah' (), meaning "to become," and actually signifies "He Causes to Become." * Thus, God's name identifies him as the One who progressively fulfills his promises and unfailingly realizes his purposes. Only the true God could bear such a meaningful name.

Do you remember the different ways that God's name appeared in Psalm 83:18, as set out in the previous section? Two of those translations had mere titles ("the LORD," the "Eternal") as substitutes for God's name. But in two of them, Yahweh and Jehovah, you can see the four letters of God's name. However, the pronunciation is different. Why?

How Is God's Name Pronounced?
The truth is, nobody knows for sure how the name of God was originally pronounced. Why not? Well, the first language used in writing the Bible was Hebrew, and when the Hebrew language was written down, the writers wrote only consonants—not vowels. Hence, when the inspired writers wrote God's name, they naturally did the same thing and wrote only the consonants.

While ancient Hebrew was an everyday spoken language, this presented no problem. The pronunciation of the Name was familiar to the Israelites and when they saw it in writing they supplied the vowels without thinking (just as, for an English reader, the abbreviation "Ltd." represents "Limited" and "bldg." represents "building").

Two things happened to change this situation. First, a superstitious idea arose among the Jews that it was wrong to say the divine name out loud; so when they came to it in their Bible reading they uttered the Hebrew word 'Adho·nai' ("Sovereign Lord"). Further, as time went by, the ancient Hebrew language itself ceased to be spoken in everyday conversation, and in this way the original Hebrew pronunciation of God's name was eventually forgotten.

In order to ensure that the pronunciation of the Hebrew language as a whole would not be lost, Jewish scholars of the second half of the first millennium C.E. invented a system of points to represent the missing vowels, and they placed these around the consonants in the Hebrew Bible. Thus, both vowels and consonants were written down, and the pronunciation as it was at that time was preserved.

When it came to God's name, instead of putting the proper vowel signs around it, in most cases they put other vowel signs to remind the reader that he should say 'Adho·nai'. From this came the spelling Iehouah, and, eventually, Jehovah became the accepted pronunciation of the divine name in English. This retains the essential elements of God's name from the Hebrew original

So we learn that Yahweh, or Jehovah is the name for the one and only true God, the Creator, and that Jehovah wanted us to know and use his great name!

Answer 7

Yahweh is a Hebrew translation of the one and only true God who is commonly known in the English translation as Jehovah.
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Answer 8

It is a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah, translated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH.

Answer 9

He is the Hebrew conception of God.. Many besides the Hebrews imagined one god above the others.

Answer 10

The main God. YHWH, the Jews only wrote His name for a while. It was considered blasphemous to say His name.