what is Gods name?...psalms 83:18...exodus 6:3?

Question

Psalms 83:18 That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah,
You alone are the Most High over all the earth.

Exodus 6:3 And I used to appear to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty, but as respects my name Jehovah I did not make myself known to them.

Answer 1

Jehovah is God's name.

Isaiah 42:8 states it too.

Before they started replacing the name with LORD or God, there use to be over 7,000 occurences of the name of God.

Answer 2

Jehovah (or more correct transliterated Yahwah) is often considered to be "the" name of God. And as such, treated with respect. The Jews, rather then mispronounce the name, would say (and write in the margin) the Word "Lord" instead. It has become a tradition to this day that most Bible translations use the word "LORD" (all in caps) for the name Jehovah.

Realize that the Bible is a progressive revelation. There were many things that Moses learned, that Abraham did not. (The 10 commandments, the priesthood, the tabernacle). There were many things that David learned that Moses did not. (The details of the crucifixion in Pslams 22, the power of praise and worship, the kingship). There are things revelaed to Isaiah that were unknown to the others. (The virgin birth, the new heaven and earth)

Moses was the first to have the name "Jehovah" revealed to him. Abraham had the name "God Almighty" revealed to him because it was the name for the convenant that Abraham had with God. Jehovah was the name for Moses' covenant. Jesus is the name for our convenant.

Answer 3

The One True God has many different names, Yes he is Jehovah, He is also Called Father, He is call I AM, that I AM, Creator, eternal spirit. The Lord, The almighty, The first & the last, All these names point to God the ONE TRUE SPIRIT. But yet we have to see what God's redemptive name is, Jesus is NOT God & neither was God Jesus, But God did dwell in Jesus Christ only after Jesus was baptized, & then God dwell in Jesus Christ first as the redeemer, then as the Holy Ghost, So there is only ONE REDEMPTIVE Name, & that is Jesus The Christ. Did not Jesus said, I have came in my father's name. And this is where many gets the Godhead all mess up. These people that try to say that Jesus was God himself, is just as bad as the trinity people saying that there is 3 persons in the Godhead, God & the Holy Ghost is not & never was a person, but a SPIRIT, & For the Jesus is God people, Let me ask you this, Why did not God dwell in Jesus until Jesus was baptized at age 30, That is when God or we can also say The Holy Ghost came & took his abode in Jesus Christ without measure. And God did NOT die, Jesus Did. Can you imagine how bad this world would have been if God died. Just for those 3 days, If satan had the power to kill God as many thinks, Then do you think satan would have let Jesus Christ rise from the dead, NO, But God was NOT dead, Jesus the Christ was, God was & is & will be alive & well forever.

Answer 4

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.


Interestingly, Encyclopaedia Judaica says that “the avoidance of pronouncing the name YHWH ... was caused by a misunderstanding of the Third Commandment.”
http://www.jehovantodistajat.fi/e/20040122/article_02.htm

(Psalms 83:18) That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth

(John 17:26) [Jesus said] I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them

Answer 5

Jehovah (in the original it writes the tetragrammaton). Also, why did he not let his name be known to Abraham who was considered a righteous man and a friend of God? I've always wondered.

Answer 6

we can say that the Scriptures clearly teach that only one God exists. Yet this one God is described by different names in Scripture. The different names reflect different attributes of His character. Thus we should not assume any contradiction between the creation account in the first two chapters of Genesis merely because two different names for God are employed.

Answer 7

This is a great question. It appears that the covenant name of God YHWH was spoken directly to the patriarchs quite often (i.e. it was used in Genesis many times, before Moses even came on the scene). Your passage in Exodus 6:3 is the scene where Moses sees the burning bush and experiences God for the first time. He states very clearly that he DID appear to the patriarchs, but they didn't know him by/according to/as respects to "my name".
This could mean a couple of things: 1) the patriarchs knew their God but he was not fully disclosed...perhaps God didn't use his name for identification (known as El or Elohim, or even Adonai), but the composer(s) of Genesis knew him and attached the name YHWH to the writings retrospectively, or (2) since names in antiquity have direct connection to someone's personality or character (i.e. Jacob = the supplanter became Israel=struggles with God after he confessed his name "my name is Jacob" "you will now be known as Israel"), the patriarchs didn't understand who God really was...not fully. Later we will see that God makes it very clear to Israel who he is when he gives the law which required holiness (a law that had not been given to the patriarchs). See Exodus 33:18 where Moses states that he wants to see God's glory (His full nature), which is something that had not been completely revealed. God refuses, but does offer to reveal more of himself...something that had not been revealed to the patriarchs before (they didn't know me (truly) according to my name).

Now think about the name of God, YHWH, which is a very holy name. Most aggree that it comes from a form of HYH, which is the common verb that English speakers would call a "to be" verb ("I AM David"). Therefore, it probably means what most tranlators believe, "I AM". Many speculate as to what it really means (so do WE even really know God according to His name?), but I believe that it probably is a hifil causative...meaning "I cause to be" or "I cause existence". Moses would come to see more of God than anyone else in the Old Testament. And God would reveal what His name means in Exodus 34:6-7 by repeating his name YHWH twice sequentially...a pattern never repeated again in the Old Testament: "gracious" and just. God is merciful but will always punish the guilty (requiring a sacrifice...SOMETHING must die when sin is commited. This, in my view, foreshadows the need for a human savior to act as a sacrifice for sins...Christ, Jesus of Nazareth).

Consider one more thing. The hebrew word "yedah" (YDA) means either to know facts or to know intimately (Adam "knew" Eve...and then she had a baby!). A person knows George Bush, but knows his/her wife or husband on a much different level. Therefore, the Psalmist (Ps. 83:18) calls for the Jewish nation to get to know intimately the one that they knew about.
Therefore, the Israelites knew him, but did not fully know him.

Answer 8

God has many names...each one describing the attribute with which He interacts with his creation at any particular moment. The tetragrammaton, which should never be pronounced except by the High Priest in the Temple and whose correct pronounciation is unknown except to a very few, is the name describing the attribute of mercy.

Answer 9

The names you mentioned are God's revelation of His names to the children of Israel. For New Covenant Christians we are all God's children and therefore God is our Father. Even the Holy Spirit within us addresses God as "Abba Father". God is our Father.

Answer 10

The name of God is LORD and not Jehovah.

It was claimed by the Ministers of Jehovah's Witness that they have changed the name of God in their translation of their bible which they have taken from the word YWHA.Hebrew word have no letter J and this is one proof that they have changed it