Is God's Name Jehovah?

Question

Is God's name Jehovah? If it is, who calls him that? Certainly not Jesus. Jesus undoubtedly calls him Pop or Dad or Father. So who else is up there who calls God Jehovah, says things like "Good Morning, Jehovah, How ya doin' today?"

Maybe all the people from Earth, when they go to Heaven, they talk to God and call him by his first name? "Hi Jehovah! Sure is a nice place you got here!"

I'm sorta wonderin' why God would even have a name, if nobody calls him that. And who gave him that name anyway?

Answer 1

Well it just so happens, it's in the Bible that God's real name is ....ANDY! Yep it's true.
It says Andy walked with me. Andy talked with me!!!
LOL

Answer 2

There are many names for God. Like those of the angels, each has a descriptive meaning. Jehovah is God the creator with his creation. El Shaddai is God the all mighty. Etc.

We use the Word God as a descriptive for all these. But reading the correct hebrew and greek words for God actually gives more relvance to the scriptures when they are read. Especially as the devil is often refered to as God in the old testament, and the angels are once referred to the same way.

Answer 3

Having to do this by transliteration of Hebrew is not easy, but I will give it a shot. The Torah, where the name of G-d is located, is all consonants. No vowels. So transliterating four letters of "the name" into English gives YHVH.

Notice no "J" There is no "J" in Hebrew. So right there you know the claim that the name starts with a "J" sound is incorrect. The name actually starts with a sound sort of like a "Y".

Now, as to the vowels. With no vowels listed, you can stick in any that you want, unless you know Hebrew and know the proper vowels.

Here is one theory of how the Christians picked vowels. Another term used for G-d in the Torah is "Adoni." (Pronounced AD on i) Stick the same vowels in with the consonants of YHVH and you get YA-HO-VIH. Throw in a little vowel creep (ever hear someone from Boston talk? Same idea, language changes) and some sloppy pronunciation (ever hear someone say ve-hick-le?) and you get JA HO VAH. Was that his name as pronounced at the time by the Jews? I highly doubt it. I bet if you said that to Him, He would correct you.

Answer 4

Right wing Christians are suppose to be using it.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/11/robertson_says.html

Earlier this week, I had several people in my taxi who were attending a conference of Jewish Educators. I didn't ask what denomination of Judaism they were, but when I asked what version of God's name they use, they said Jehovah. These people were from all over the country.

Remember, though we don't know the proper pronunciation of God's name, because they didn't use vowels, the same applies to Jesus. Jesus is a translation of the probable version handed down over time.

Answer 5

yes gods name is Jehovah it means "he causes to become". fitting for the creator. he has a personal name just like everyone else. how would you feel if your best friend called you up and said " hey person how have you been?" God and Father are titles. and his name is in the original Greek and Hebrew text over 7000 times so yes alot of people used it and many still do, from what I understand it was only taken out because of superstitions.If you look on some sites that let you look up scriptures from several different bibles you'll find it in alot of them.

Answer 6

i'm oftentimes not this candid, however the call, Jehovah, has pop out of Bibles so as that the recognize Jehovah God isn't linked with Jehovah's Witnesses. interior the older King James Bibles, besides as many different Bibles (even Spanish Bibles), used the Lofty call Jehovah. it somewhat is that straightforward. i admire the call of Jehovah God, as a results of fact it has saved me extra advantageous than as quickly as.

Answer 7

God said I AM the LORD thy God.

I AM is ANY HYH
LORD is YHVH (Jahovah / Yahweh)
God is ELHYM (plural of ALH, EL, ELYH)(Elohim)

The Yahweh Elohim; the El Elyon or LORD God; God Most High is the everlasting name of the God of Israel.

In transcribing Gods Name into other languages one got Jehovah. There are no vowels in YHVH so added the vowels of Adonai (also Lord) to YHVH, and there wasn't any Ys so changed the Y to a J that made that sound in that language.

God has a name. But do not use the name of the LORD thy God in Vain, God will not hold you guiltless. (Guilty of disrespecting / hating God).

There are many names of God. Others are Healer, Savior, etc... All you need to do is get a book on the names of God. I have one titled, Praying the Names of God by Ann Spangler.

Answer 8

I have several King James Version predating 1990 and you can find God's name Jehovah at Exodus 6:3, at Psalms 83:18, at Isaiah 12:2 and Isaiah 26:4. His name in Hebrew is Yahweh, which has been translated Jehovah in English. Jehovah gave himself this name which means; he causes to become, meaning he can become anything he so wills to fulfill his purposes. In the Bibles his name has been removed and replaced with the titles God and Lord, if you examine closely, every place that you see the word God or Lord where the od and ord are small capital letters, his name should be there, long ago the Jews removed God's name and replaced them with the titles God and Lord and stopped pronouncing his name out of fear of using it in vain. God's name belongs in the Scriptures more than 6000 times and Yes, Jesus used Jehovah's name in the Greek Scriptures, the fact that Jehovah's name is used more than 6000 times in the Scriptures, shows the importance of using his name, in fact in the Lord's Model Prayer, Jesus says Our Father let your Name be sanctified or hallowed which means; be made holy, how can we make his name Holy if we do not use it at all, we make it Holy by using it in our prayers and in our worship of him.*********** kenchatham and others who say there is no J in Hebrew, what about Jonah, Job, Jesse, Jeremiah, Joel, Jezebel, Jotham Joshua, Josiah and the list goes on, what?, do we just stop using these names then? ************

Answer 9

Right off in answering the question, we don't know his true name.
The vowels were removed by the Hebrew scribes because they thought if they use his name in full, they would take God's name in vain.
Today the widely use of God's name is Jehovah in almost every country.
The other secondary thoughts you project are wrong in mixing human, earthly things with what is spiritual in the spirit realm, which we have little info. of.
Peace.....

Answer 10

Yes, it is.

Read Exodus 6:3 "by my name Jehovah was I not known," or Psalms 83:18 "his name alone is Jehovah," or Isaiah 12:2 "Jehovah is my strength," or Isaiah 26:4 "for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength."

ALSO, names AND words such as Hallelujah means (Praise Jehovah), so any word in the Bible ending with "jah" would have a reference to Jehovah in its meaning. Usually in reference to his glory, greatness, etc. Such as Adonijah, etc.

While names who ended with "el" merely referred to "god" such as Michael, Gabriel, etc. Michael = who is like God?

Answer 11

Have you never heard of Jehovah's Witnesses?
Psalms 83:18 shows that Gods name is Jehovah.

Je·ho′vah) [the causative form, the imperfect state, of the Heb. verb ha·wah′ (become); meaning “He Causes to Become”].

The personal name of God. (Isa 42:8; 54:5) Though Scripturally designated by such descriptive titles as “God,” “Sovereign Lord,” “Creator,” “Father,” “the Almighty,” and “the Most High,” his personality and attributes—who and what he is—are fully summed up and expressed only in this personal name.