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oh, tell us, please, what is the meaning of the name Jehovah?
It is a verb, you know.... the Name that Jehovah gave Himself...
it means 'He causes to become'.
yep.
If you would prefer to call Him 'Yahweh', I doubt He would care. The most important thing is that people KNOW HIM. Psalms 83:18 says what??
It is a translation and linguistic issue. You see, Jeremiah, Jonah, Jessica, etc. are actually Yirmiah, Yonah and Yiska in the Hebrew. As pointed outby other poster, at the time the Christian bible was being translated, the letter "J" was pronounced as our letter "Y" is. So the translators actually intended to write Yeremiah, Yonah, and Yessica. Later more modern translations for some reason chose to keep the original spelling despite the pronunciation changes.
That's true of G-d's Name as well. Spelling it with a "J" is due to the old pronunciation. Your entire sect is named after a transliteration error.
This is a false equivalency.
Blah, blah, nlah, getting to the point...
I quoted it to you above in Ex. 3. Moses asks G-d what Name he should tell the Jews. G-d's response is "I will Be".
The "J" should be replaced with a "Y" to reflect modern pronunciation of those letters.
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once more, I will share this information with you, and let it answer your statements about why you think the name of God is not important--the Bible itself tells us otherwise.
The Tetragrammaton and the Divine Name in the Hebrew Scriptures | NWT
Jehovah God himself directed Bible writers to use his name. For example, he inspired the prophet Joel to write: “Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” (
Joel 2:32) And God caused one psalmist to write: “May people know that you, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth.” (
Psalm 83:18) In fact, the divine name appears some 700 times in the book of Psalms alone—a book of poetic writings that were to be sung and recited by God’s people. Why, then, is God’s name missing from many Bible translations? Why does this translation use the form “Jehovah”? And what does the divine name, Jehovah, mean?
Excerpts from the Psalms in a Dead Sea Scroll dated to the first half of the first century C.E. The text is in the style of the Hebrew letters commonly used after the Babylonian exile, but the Tetragrammaton appears repeatedly in distinctive ancient Hebrew letters.
Those who say that the divine name should not be used because it is not known exactly how to pronounce it will nevertheless freely use the name Jesus. However, Jesus’ first-century disciples said his name quite differently from the way most Christians do today. To Jewish Christians, the name Jesus was probably pronounced
Ye·shuʹa‛. And the title “Christ” was
Ma·shiʹach, or “Messiah.” Greek-speaking Christians called him
I·e·sousʹ Khri·stosʹ, and Latin-speaking Christians
Ieʹsus Chriʹstus. Under inspiration, the Greek translation of his name was recorded in the Bible, showing that first-century Christians followed the sensible course of using the form of the name common in their language. Similarly, the New World Bible Translation Committee feels that it is reasonable to use the form “Jehovah,” even though that rendering is not exactly the way the divine name would have been pronounced in ancient Hebrew.
