Hebrew? does anyone know how to spell Yahweh?

Question

does anyone know how to spell yahweh in hebrew. i have the alphabet i just need the names of the letters in order.

Answer 1

yod-heh-vav-heh

well, but backwards. from left to right it would be heh-vav-heh-yod.

Answer 2

Everyone is right almost.

It is spelled with the Hebrew letters Yod, then a heh, then a vav, then another heh. But the guy who said it was written right to left was correct.

Incidentally the pronunciation is conjecture, and probably wrong. Josephus, a Jewish-ROman historian, mentions that the high priest had it vowelized (hebrew usually has no vowels) on his head piece, and that it had four vowels.

Religious Jews won't pronounce it at all, and won't write it, or say it, even in spelling the word to you, without puting more of an interuption between the letters than is customary between other letters except for truly holy, ritual functions like a prayer book or a scroll.

They will say or write, "yud and hey, vav and hey;" or write y - h v- h. I wrote it longways above out of respect for jewish belief. See there.

Interestingly, in Judaism, the first syllable is one name, and the second syllable is another name. That's why the first hey and vav dont need a destinctive seperation. Also while the first syllable will be used in prayer as its own name, the second syllable isn't because it is the name of the divine glory, called the Shekhinah.

It's helpful sometimes on the internet to ask a question like this, because you can discern who's really an Orthodox Jewish and who's faking it to have fun on the internet. Lady Suri for example, didn't put in seperations more than for any other speeled word, so, by Orthodox Judaism's standards she's a blasphemer now, and has no portion in the world to come. If she is forgiven, she will merely be punished by either dying early or not having any heirs.

Obviously, with penalties like that, Orthodox Jews are extremely careful, so it's likely she's a poser and not the real deal.

Answer 3

Hebrew reads from right to left, instead of left to right like English.

Yod (Sometimes spelled yud), he (pronounced like hay), vav (sometimes spelled waw), and he (again).

Those are the consonants. The vowels have been lost throughout history.

Ask me, a professed Deist, how I know? I was once in the Messianic Jewish movement before seeing the light.

Answer 4

Since u have the hebrew alpabet- check these letters-"YHWH" this are the letters inscribed on the tablets carried by Moses. Scholars inserted vowels to be able to pronounce this name thus, came "YaHWeH"

"Y' was then pronounced as "J" and "W" was then pronounced as "V". Thats why modern scholars came up with the name "JeHoVaH".

God bless...

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh
Yahweh is a proposed English reading of יהוה‎ (the Tetragrammaton), the name of the god of the Jews or the people of Israel, as preserved in the original consonantal Hebrew Bible text. The four Hebrew consonants read JHWH (in German transcription) or YHVH (in English transcription). It is also common to use YHWH

Answer 6

In Hebrew?

HWHY

Hebrew reads from right to left.

Answer 7

its tetragrammaton, it has no vowels, all Semitic languages have no vowel point, languages like Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic, also variation of eastern languages have no capital letters unlike the roman alphabet.

When the name of god is uttered Yahweh without the vowels its unpronounceable.

Answer 8

There is no 'W' sound in the Hebrew language...r u sure that's how it's pronounced? my guess is that it starts with a yud and ends with a hey

Answer 9

its yud- heh- vav- keh
written from write to left, but you shouldn't write it- it's a desecration if you throw out the paper accidentally, or rip it, or burn it- it would have to be buried a special way.
if you want to write it, change one of the 'heh's to a 'kuf', then you can do whatever you like with the paper

Answer 10

Yud hey vav hey. Why? You shouldn't be writing it out. It's sacred.

Answer 11

YHWH we put the vowels in there ,so we could pronounce it