Your use of Yehova prompted two lines of thought.
(We’ve been tangling so long that I hope you understand that I’m weary of tangling for its own sake.)
So, first, I suggest it’s a choice not made solely on the basis of internal evidence to present the Name as Yehova. There are impressive, though not conclusive, reasons to support a different construction of the Tetragrammaton, where the Heh implies a vowel and the Vav is something like a ‘W’.
I’m not here to argue one or the other. I just want to note that either construction depends on information outside of the TaNaKh itself.
Second, we. I just suggest that we need “Origin Stories” for the Scriptures and their authority. We have, as you know, not only the text but the process of determining which texts are authoritative and which are not.
And then there’s the problem of textual variants. It’s not enough, I think, to say that the Textus Receptus is authoritative. Such a statement leads to wondering, “Sez who?” How and why should the Christian think that these people have the authority and grace to select books and textual variants?
Im not asking for a defense of your answer. I AM asking for an account of what your answer is. How do people of your opinion decide that these books and these variants are the real deal and those are not.
I recognize that that’s a hug3 digression from the topic at issue. But someday I would be grateful for an answer.
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The vowel pointings in the Aleppo and the St Petersburg codices show beyond a shadow of doubt that the name is Yehova.
There is no “w” sound in Hebrew names.
What other authority can there even be?
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