What is God's name?

Question

It's in the Bible.

hint
34:14

Answer 1

No it isn't...not His actual name.

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Reason...because if you speak God's name you will gain great power...and the only person suspected of doing so(besides a prophet) is Lilith..

Answer 2

God's name is translated by different languages, i.e. "Jehovah" (Hebrew) or YHWH or JHVH. Most languages require a consonant in order to pronounce His name. God's personal name first occurrs in Gen 2:4. The divine name is a verb, the causative form, the imperfect state, of the Hebrew verb "ha-wah", (to become). Therefore, the divine name means "He Causes to Become". The greatest indignity that modern translators render to the Divine Author of the Holy Scriptures is the removal or the concealing of his peculiar personal name. Actually His name occurs in the Hebrew text 6,828 times as "YHWH or JHVH". Unfortunately, even the King James version has removed Jehovah's name; however, His name is only revealed in Psalm 83:18, the rest of the Bible refers to Him as Father, Lord, The Lord, God, Heavenly Father, all representations of who He is, but not his name. Almost as if those who removed His name did so by translating as a child would refer to his parent. Yes, we are Jehovah's children, but He is the Creator and should be fully recognized on a more personal level since the Bible also speaks about many other gods, although He is the Creator. The Devil was a god....we call him by his name...Satan. Does not Jehovah deserve more respect than the Devil?

Answer 3

I will answer seriously as I will take your question to be straight forward.

In the original book the central character was a god who would swoop down from heaven and spend a bit of time on earth. Make him happy and things went OK. Make him angry and he did the usual god things and people got hurt.

The author wanted to give this god an unpronounceable name and since the book, written about 900 to 950 BCE, was first discovered by a German Anthropologist, he translated the Aramaic as JHVH, later translated as YHWH by the English and since mankind never takes a hint was, of course, pronounced as Yahweh.

The best translation of the book of “J” is by Bloom and Rosenberg. This is the stuff of scholars and not to be read by the average faithful who demonstrate little or no real interest in any actual history about their religious fantasy.

I probably shouldn’t have answered this but sometimes…I just can’t help myself.

Jim D

Answer 4

Elohim, The most common name in Hebrew of those portions of the Hexateuch instead of Yahweh or Jehovah!
In Hebrew texts, the group of 4 letters (JHVH,JHWH,YHVH,or YHWH) representing the name of god, that is considered ineffable. The common transliteration Jehovah is the result of a combination of the tetragrammaton with the vowel points of Adonai "my lord,"
that is substituted in reading the name. So the most common name is Jehovah! Point being, people do not study enough to understand !

Answer 5

actually, no its NOT.

At the time of the scriptual writtings, it was considered PROFANE to use the name of god in a written format. Many representatives were used by the various authors of the time period, depending upon their sect. Some REPRESENTATIVE examples were El, Elohim, Jehovah, Adoni, even ba'al or BAAL.

Over the centuries, many different sects have sprung up revolving around this name or that name, though many of which were derived from alternate translations of the scriptures.

Answer 6

Jehovah, Psalm 83:18.

Answer 7

Yahweh according to the bible.

Answer 8

there are many names of God listed in the Bible, most people would say Yahweh (abbreviated YHWH in the OT)
or Jehovah

Answer 9

According to a show i saw on tv called The Librarian, His name is "Me" because god is in all of us. I dont know if they used a reference from the bible or if they made it up.

Answer 10

God or Allah

Jesus is only the son of God and a prophet