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Yahwah
7,29.08 | Michael

Posted on 07/29/2008 7:58:19 PM PDT by MichaelTheeArchAngel

'''Yahwah'''

'''Yahwah''' is God’s personal name based upon the ancient Semitic language. Take note that the letter 7 in Biblical Hebrew was known as waw and pronounced as w, as in Yhwh, “Yahwah.” In Modern Hebrew 7 is known as vav and pronounced as v. The derivation of Yahwah is from the ancient Semitic words HaYah and HaWah. HaYah means “The Life or The Living.” HaWah means “The Beginning or The happening.” This is a partial list of words associated HaWah: Be, is, was, became, happened and appeared.

'''Yahwah reveals His name to Moses'''
'''Exodus 3:13-15.''' 13 And Moses said to Elohiym, “Suppose I go to the siblings of the Israelites and say to them, 'The Elohiym of your forefathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is His name?' What shall I say to them?” ''(Elohiym means, “God of The Living.”) It can also be translated as “god-s of the living” or “god-s of life,” for those who have life immortal.'' 14 And Elohiym said to Moses, “The Living that Lives. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'The Living has sent me to you.” ''(HaYah) in the ancient Semitic language means: The Living, or The Life.)'' 15 And Elohiym also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ''''Yahwah''', the Elohiym of your forefathers; the Elohiym of Abraham, the Elohiym of Isaac and the Elohiym of Jacob has sent me to you.' That’s my name forever, the name by which I’m to be remembered, from generation to generation.”
'''Psalms 22:22.''' I will declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation I will praise you.

'''Psalm 66:4.''' All the earth bows down to you; they sing praise to you, they sing praise to your name." Selah. (Selah means to pause and consider.)

'''Psalms 83.''' 16 Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your name, O '''Yahwah'''. 17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace. 18 Let them know that you, whose name is '''Yahwah''', that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.

'''Isaiah 63:16.''' For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us or Israel acknowledge us; you, '''Yahwah''', are our Father; our Redeemer from old is your name.

'''Isaiah 42:8.''' I’m '''Yahwah'''; that’s my name! I will not give my glory to another…

'''Jeremiah 15:16.''' When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight, for I bear your name, '''Yahwah''', Elohiym of Host.

'''Joel 2''' 26 You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of '''Yahwah''' your Elohiym, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed. 27 Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am '''Yahwah''' your Elohiym, and that there is no other; never again will my people be shamed. 28 "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. 29 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of '''Yahwah'''. 32 And everyone who calls on the name of '''Yahwah''' will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as '''Yahwah''' has said, among the survivors whom '''Yahwah''' calls.

'''A brief history lesson'''

After 300 B.C. Adonai became more frequently used than Yahwah. And the Books of Esther, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon do not use the name Yahwah. The title “Lord” (Adonai) is usually a substitute for the divine name: Yahwah.
Origen reported that when Jews read the name Yahwah, they would pronounce it Adonai, while non Jews would pronounce it Kurios.

In the Greek translation of the Old Testament (Septuagint), written before the time of Christ, “Yahwah” was written in Hebrew consonant characters. In the Dead Sea Scrolls, the scribes out of respect for the name wrote it in ancient Hebrew script rather in their normal script. Later on, Christian scribes replaced the Hebrew characters in the Greek Bible with Kurios. Scribes translating the Hebrew Bible showed that Yahwah should not be pronounced, but read as Adonai by substituting the Hebrew vowels of Adonai for those of Yahwah when writing the divine name. Later on, readers who did not know this history did not pronounce Yahwah; but neither did they pronounce Adonai, as the scribes intended. As a result the Middle Ages readers of the Hebrew Bible began pronouncing precisely what was written, and the mixture of consonants from Yahwah and vowels from Adonai, producing the pronunciation of Jehovah, a word that never existed for speakers of ancient Hebrew.

The word "Jehovah" comes from the fact that ancient Jewish texts used to put the vowels of the Name "Adonai" (the usual substitute for YHWH) with the consonants of YHWH to remind people not to pronounce YHWH as written. A sixteenth century German Christian scribe, while transliterating the Bible into Latin for the Pope, wrote the Name out as it appeared in his texts, with the consonants of YHWH and the vowels of Adonai, and came up with the word JeHoVaH.

The number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet, their order, their names, and their phonetic values are virtually identical to those of the Aramaic alphabet, as both Hebrews and Arameans borrowed the Phoenician alphabet for their uses during the end of the 2nd millennium BC. The modern script used for writing Hebrew (usually called the Jewish script by scholars, and also traditionally known as the square script, block script, or Assyrian script; not to be confused with the Eastern variant of the Syriac alphabet) evolved during the 3rd century BC from the Aramaic script, which was used by Jews for writing Hebrew since the 6th century BC. Prior to that, Hebrew was written using the old Hebrew script, which evolved from the 10th century BC Phoenician script.

The original pictograph used in the Early Semitic script is a Y shape, a picture of a tent peg. The tent pegs were made of wood and may have been Y-shaped to prevent the rope from slipping off.

The Modern Hebrew name for this letter is “vav”, a word meaning “peg” or “hook”. This letter is used in Modern Hebrew as a consonant with a “v” sound and as a vowel. If the Modern Hebrew letter appears as (וֹ), it is the vowel sound “ow” and if it appears as (וּ), it is the vowel sound “uw”. When used as a vowel the ancient pronunciation was also an “ow” or “uw”. In each consonant, vowel letters of the Ancient Hebrew language the pronunciation of the consonant is closely related to the pronunciation of the vowel such as the letter “hey” is “h” and “eh,” and the pronunciation of the letter “yud” is “y” and “iy”. For this reason, it is probable that the original pronunciation of the letter Y was with a “w”. In Modern and Ancient Arabic language, this letter is also pronounced with a “w”. Therefore, the original name of this letter would have been “waw” instead of “vav”.

'''In regards to the consonant “W” in the name YHWH'''

Wāw serves several functions in the Arabic language. Perhaps foremost among them is that it is the primary conjunction in Arabic, equivalent to "and"; it is usually prefixed to other conjunctions, such as ولكن wa-lakin, meaning "but". Another function is the "'''oath'''", by preceding a noun of great significantly valued by the speaker. It is often literally translatable to "By..." or "I swear to...", and is often used in the Qur'an in this way, and also in the generally fixed construction والله wallah ("By Allah!" or "I swear to God!").

An '''oath''' (from Anglo-Saxon āð, also called plight) is either a promise or a statement of fact calling upon something or someone that the '''oath''' maker considers sacred, usually a god, as a witness to the binding nature of the promise or the truth of the statement of fact.
Chapter 69 of Enoch

This requested Michael, to show him the hidden name that he might enunciate it in the '''oath''', so that those might quake before that name and '''oath''' who revealed all that was in secret to the children of men. And this is the power of this oath, for it is powerful and strong, and he placed this '''oath''' (Akae) in the hand of Michael. ''(Akae) is not a word, it is most likely an authors note, it could mean, “Also Known As Elohiym” or “Also Known As Eagle.” Michael’s seal could be the double winged eagle found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The four winged Cherubim in Ezekiel may also have a relationship. ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwah


TOPICS: Judaism; Mainline Protestant; Theology
KEYWORDS: arabic; elohiym; hebrew; holyspirit; yahwah
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To: MichaelTheeArchAngel

Vav is a consonant. Shuruk/milupim is a vowel which looks like a dagesh vav.


41 posted on 07/30/2008 8:50:15 AM PDT by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: MichaelTheeArchAngel
When you cut and paste a Wiki article
without doing the research,
you get wrong every time.

42 posted on 07/30/2008 8:52:08 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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To: mkjessup
There was grace and salvation without shedding blood in the OT, so why would there suddenly be a need to crucify/shed blood?

Micah
6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

43 posted on 07/30/2008 8:59:32 AM PDT by Netizen
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To: Netizen
There was grace and salvation without shedding blood in the OT, so why would there suddenly be a need to crucify/shed blood?

So you are saying that Jesus dying on the Cross was unnecessary and not required?
44 posted on 07/30/2008 9:02:57 AM PDT by mkjessup
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To: mkjessup
So you are saying that Jesus dying on the Cross was unnecessary and not required?

That's right. Crucifixion is a Roman means of death penalty generally reserved for those they saw as a threat. The mission of Jesus was to preach a message of repentance, which he did.

45 posted on 07/30/2008 9:08:16 AM PDT by Netizen
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To: Netizen; mkjessup
Why then :

NAsbU Genesis 22:8 Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the lamb
for the burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai

46 posted on 07/30/2008 9:17:09 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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To: evets

Is that the “Mormom” Jesus?


47 posted on 07/30/2008 9:18:31 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Netizen; All
So you are saying that Jesus dying on the Cross was unnecessary and not required?
That's right. Crucifixion is a Roman means of death penalty generally reserved for those they saw as a threat. The mission of Jesus was to preach a message of repentance, which he did.


Well there sure was a major mixup on that Day at Golgotha, now wasn't there?

DO you know Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour?

Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?
Are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His Grace this hour?
Are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb?

Are you washed... in the Blood?
In the soul-cleansing Blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless are they white as snow?
Are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb?

As I live and breathe, I tell you without absolutely any doubt, that one Day you will breathe your last, and if you die without Jesus Christ, your soul will be lost for all Eternity.

You can come to Him today as your Saviour, or end up facing Him as your Judge when it's too late.

If you do not know Him, choose wisely while you can.
48 posted on 07/30/2008 9:25:08 AM PDT by mkjessup (Heaven or Hell, the choice is yours. Jesus made it possible to choose Heaven.)
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To: XeniaSt
Genesis 22:8 Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.

Abraham was being tested, as we all know.

And I would suggest that it isn't necessary to worry about what Abraham said on that occasion, and that what is needed is to focus more on what Jesus Christ said about how to reach the Father.
49 posted on 07/30/2008 9:30:35 AM PDT by mkjessup
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To: XeniaSt
Throughout the Jewish scriptures, the prophets declared that repentance and charity are more pleasing to God for atonement than a blood sacrifice.

Too, often people inject things into the text that are not there, trying to fulfill their own prophecies.

One could also view this instance as God didn't want the shedding of human blood and brought forth an animal.

Hosea 14
2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

The 'calves of our lips'. Animal sacrifice was to be replaced with prayer.

50 posted on 07/30/2008 9:33:31 AM PDT by Netizen
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To: mkjessup
And I would suggest that it isn't necessary to worry about what Abraham said on that occasion, and that what is needed is to focus more on what Jesus Christ said about how to reach the Father.

And just what did Jesus say about that:

Matthew 9:13
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Matthew 19
16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

51 posted on 07/30/2008 9:43:06 AM PDT by Netizen
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To: mkjessup
If you do not know Him, choose wisely while you can.

I think you need to do more than know Yah'shua.

I just had two Mormon missionaries at my door.

I asked them if they knew Jesus.

Their answer was: Yes, he WAS a jew.

I told them that he was a Jew
and is a Jew
and will return to rule and reign
over all the world as a Jew
on the throne of King David in Jerusalem.

They thanked me and walked away confused.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
52 posted on 07/30/2008 9:46:45 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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To: Netizen

I’m waiting to hear if you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

All of your knowledgable quotations, and citing of Scripture will come to naught if your answer is “no”.

Or have you not heard that even the Devil can quote Scripture if it fits his purpose?


53 posted on 07/30/2008 9:48:04 AM PDT by mkjessup
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To: XeniaSt
If you do not know Him, choose wisely while you can.
I think you need to do more than know Yah'shua.


What do you contend needs to be done over and above knowing Jesus Christ as one's Saviour?

We are saved by Jesus Christ alone, by virture of His Blood, shed upon the Cross for the redemption of our sins.

That is our eternal bottom line. We can accept Christ's free gift of salvation, or reject it in favor of our own flawed interpretations and solutions which will ultimately fail us.
54 posted on 07/30/2008 9:52:14 AM PDT by mkjessup
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To: mkjessup

Bookmarking for later, have to (*gasp*) go offline for a while.


55 posted on 07/30/2008 9:54:11 AM PDT by mkjessup
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To: Netizen
It was YHvH who initiated the request.
NAsbU Hosea 6:6

For I delight in loyalty(lovingkindness) rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of Elohim rather than burnt offerings.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai

56 posted on 07/30/2008 9:54:49 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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To: mkjessup
We must call on His NAME :

Yah'shua

YHvH be my salvation.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai

57 posted on 07/30/2008 9:57:38 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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To: forkinsocket
Oooooh. Forkinsocket knows how to do a Hebrew ad hominem.

I still haven't heard a vav pronounced as a "W," ever. (Except for the "Yahweh" folks.)

ML/NJ

58 posted on 07/30/2008 10:06:43 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: mkjessup
Well there sure was a major mixup on that Day at Golgotha, now wasn't there?

If there were a mix up, it would have been that God and Jesus were at odds.

Luke 22
41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

Two conflicting wills.

According to Matthew 6:24, you cannot serve two masters. Some day you will have to choose between our Father YHWH and the man Jesus, choose wisely.

59 posted on 07/30/2008 10:10:22 AM PDT by Netizen
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To: ml/nj

Ooooh ML/NJ can’t tell the difference between Hebrew & Arabic.

This will teach you to speak nice Hebrew similar to mine.

http://sagavyah.tripod.com/ALEFBET.html


60 posted on 07/30/2008 10:13:37 AM PDT by forkinsocket
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