For all the GOD SQUAD out there, What does jehovah mean?

Question

Of course you will all say GOD.
But you are wrong.

OK so nobody online knows the answer.
It means 'THAT WHICH IS' which basically means gravity, flatulence, goat or tree. Just a cop out answer cause he didnt have a scientific answer to life. Luckily that led to the deaths of millions of people.

Answer 1

The personal name of Almighty God is translated into English as "Jehovah". The meaning of that name can be approximated by the expression "I Shall Prove To Be What I Shall Prove To Be".

(Exodus 3:13-14) Moses said to the true God: “Suppose I am now come to the sons of Israel and I do say to them, ‘The God of your forefathers has sent me to you,’ and they do say to me, ‘What is his name?’ What shall I say to them?” 14 At this God said to Moses: “I SHALL PROVE TO BE WHAT I SHALL PROVE TO BE.” And he added: “This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, ‘I SHALL PROVE TO BE has sent me to you.’”

Leeser, “I WILL BE THAT I WILL BE”
Rotherham, “I Will Become whatsoever I please.”


That Exodus 3:14 expression is rich in meaning, but the Scriptures themselves actually include the Divine Name itself nearly 7000 times. The name "Jehovah" is an English translation of the Hebrew name pronounced as or similar to "Yahweh" or "Yehowah"; the exact original pronunciation is unknown. The four Hebrew characters corresponding to the letters "YHWH" are well-recognized as the biblical personal name of Almighty God, and are universally designated as "the Tetragrammaton" or "the Tetragram".

For centuries, most Jews have superstitiously refrained from pronouncing aloud any form of the divine Name. They base that superstition on the third of the Ten Commandments given to Moses:
(Exodus 20:7) You must not take up the name of Jehovah your God in a worthless way
http://watchtower.org/e/bible/ex/chapter_020.htm?bk=Ex;chp=20;vs=7;citation#bk7

Over the centuries, that Jewish superstition has expanded to also forbid writing or engraving any form of "YHWH", even when simply copying from one of the nearly 7000 occurences in the Hebrew Scriptures. In recent centuries, some superstitious Jews have even forbade unabbreviated EUPHEMISMS for "YHWH"; capitalized terms such as "Tetragrammaton" and (amazingly) even "the Name" are forbidden by such superstitions.

More recently, the Jewish superstition has ballooned out of all reasonableness by also forbidding respectful impersonal TERMS referring to the Almighty; thus many Jews insist upon writing "G-d" or "G~d" rather than "God". They may even refrain from capitalizing impersonal terms such as "Creator" and "Almighty".

Naturally, the religious and superstitious practices of a person are between him and his Creator. However, in recent decades these superstitious Jews have worked to impose their superstitious sensibilities beyond their religious communities, and onto the entire populace. Thus, although "YHWH' is unanimously recognized as the personal name of God, few today use any form of it in their writings and conversation.

Interestingly, Christendom has largely joined with superstitious Jews in suppressing the use of "Yahweh" and "Jehovah". However, it seems that Christiandom's anti-YHWH bias largely devolves from their hatred of Jehovah's Witnesses, the religion almost single-handedly responsible for the growing public recognition that the Almighty God of Judaism and Christianity actually does a personal name.

It seems that too many are more interested in coddling superstition than in allowing intellectual honesty and respect for the Almighty.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/na/
http://watchtower.org/e/20040122/

Answer 2

The personal name of the only true God. His own self-designation. Jehovah is the Creator and, rightfully, the Sovereign Ruler of the universe. "Jehovah" is translated from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton, , which means "He Causes To Become." These four Hebrew letters are represented in many languages by the letters JHVH or YHWH.

The name first appeared in an English Bible in 1530, when William Tyndale published a translation of the first five books of the Bible. In this he included the name of God, usually spelled Iehouah, in several verses,# and in a note in this edition he wrote: "Iehovah is God's name . . . Moreover as oft as thou seist LORD in great letters (except there be any error in the printing) it is in Hebrew Iehovah." From this the practice arose of using Jehovah's name in just a few verses and writing "LORD" or "GOD" in most other places where the Tetragrammaton occurs in the Hebrew text.

In 1611 what became the most widely used English translation, the Authorized Version, was published. In this, the name appeared four times in the main text. (Exodus 6:3; Psalm 83:18; Isaiah 12:2; 26:4) "Jah," a poetic abbreviation of the name, appeared in Psalm 68:4. And the name appeared in full in place-names such as "Jehovah-jireh." (Genesis 22:14; Exodus 17:15; Judges 6:24) However, following the example of Tyndale, the translators in most instances substituted "LORD" or "GOD" for God's name. But if God's name could appear in four verses, why could it not appear in all the other thousands of verses that contain it in the original Hebrew?

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The above information was taken from the article: God's Name and Bible Translators

Answer 3

The name Jehovah means "He Causes to Become". "Jehovah" is the best known English pronunciation of the divine name. The oldest Hebrew manuscripts present the name in the form of four consonants, commonly called the Tetragrammation. These four letters may be transliterated into English as YHWH or JHVH. The Hebrew consonants of the name are known, but vowels didn't come into use until much later (after 1,000 C.E.) (within the Hebrew language.) In most bibles, at Psalms 83:18 it will use God's name, Jehovah. (His name originally appeared over 7,000 times in the Hebrew scriptures before it was removed because of a superstitious idea that it was wrong even to pronounce the divine name)

Answer 4

God Is the empirical name for the being God, YHWH (Jehovah) is His name.
There are about 9 or more names we can ad onto Jehovah IE, Jehovah Nissie
Jehovah Raphah
There are lots more these secondary name actually name attributes of God, I am sorry I do not know them but they can be looked up on the web






As Utuk says

Answer 5

Jehovah doesn't really mean anything. The word is Yahweh (Yah-way). Yahweh is the name of the Christian God. It was mixed up to look like Jehovah many year ago so people could worship God freely without facing persecution.

Answer 6

Jehovah means God in Hebrew.

Answer 7

Jehovah is derived from the Hebrew YHVH (or Yahwei), which is from a root meaning "He who is" or "he who exists." The Greek equivalent is "On." The vowels of Jehovah are taken from the word Adonai, which was always pronounced instead of YHVH.

Answer 8

The name Jehovah comes from the Hebrew verb ha·wah′, “become,” and actually means “He Causes to Become.” Peace.

Rachel

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Answer 9

Actually Jehovah is the Greek translation from the Jews one wich is Jawe or Yew, which may be means "I am".

Answer 10

Who cares what it means? It is God's NAME.

My name means elf-ruler. And yet, I am but a simple mother and home-maker.