Does Yahoo know their name in Elijah's name means God's name? Was that by choice or chance? Interesting?

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W99 2/1p.30 “Jehovah” or “Yahweh”? “The prophet Elijah’s name is ’E·li·yah´ or ’E·li·ya´hu in Hebrew. According to Professor Buchanan, the name means: “My God is Yahoo or Yahoo-wah.” “Nevertheless, in the introduction to his recent translation of The Five Books of Moses, Everett Fox points out: “Both old and new attempts to recover the ‘correct’ pronunciation of the Hebrew name [of God] have not succeeded; neither the sometimes-heard ‘Jehovah’ nor the standard scholarly ‘Yahweh’ can be conclusively proven.” “Yet, the very names of Biblical figures—the correct pronunciation of which was never lost—provide a tangible clue to the ancient pronunciation of God’s name. On this account, at least some scholars agree that the pronunciation “Jehovah” is not so “monstrous” after all. “Jehovah” has been the most popular pronunciation of God’s name.” Odd Elijah means, “My God is Yahoo”. So constitutionally can it be used as God’s voice to the world? Is that a good question to ask on Yahoo Answers?

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Answer 1

>>That is an interesting point. I never thought about that before. My guess is that it is by chance, at least where Yahoo is concerned. I do not agree however with your assessment of "Jehovah". I also do not think that Yahoo is "God's voice to the world". In fact, I get the feeling that they are anti-Judeo/Christian beliefs mostly from their very left-leaning articles and omission of decorations on HOLYdays.

Answer 2

This questioner notes an amusing coincidence!

Amazingly, it is LIKELY that the personal name of God was pronounced similar to "Yahoo-uh" or "Yahoo-ah" by true worshippers in the bible.


The name "Jehovah" is an English translation of the Hebrew name which has been assumed to have been pronounced as "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 Christendom'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/


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 3

The name of "Elijah" means - the Lord is my God , that is the meaning in most American definitions. Elijah had the ability to bring fire down from heaven and shut heaven, so that it did not rain. Basically put he was a figure , prophet , that was affiliated with fire. Interesting. when God spoke to Moses it was through a firery Bush.

Answer 4

at first in 1994 it was named Jerry's guide to the world wide web
then it was named "Yahoo"- "yet another hierarchal officious oracle"
and the general definition as in Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift, rude, unsophisticated, uncouth

It made lots of money so they kept the name YAHOO!

Answer 5

Cool Get off of this site athiests cause this site has been marked HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA