Religion and Spirituality: What's the name of the Jewish God?

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Religion and Spirituality: What's the name of the Jewish God?
Yahweh is the covenant name of God. Occurs 6823 times in the OT First use Gen. 2:4 (Jehovah Elohim). From the verb "to be", havah, similar to chavah (to live), "The Self-Existent One," "I AM WHO I AM" or 'I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE" as revealed to Moses at the burning bush, Ex.3. The name of God, too sacred to be uttered, abbreviated ( . . . . ) or written "YHWH" without vowel points. The tetragrammaton. Josh., Judges, Sam., and Kings use Jehovah almost exclusively. The love of God is conditioned upon His moral and spiritual attributes. (Dan. 9:14; Ps. 11:7; Lev. 19:2; Hab. 1:12). Note Deut. 6:4, 5 known to Jews as the Sh'ma uses both Jehovah and Elohim to indicate one God with a plurality of persons.





EL: God ("mighty, strong, prominent") used 250 times in the OT See Gen. 7:1, 28:3, 35:11; Nu. 23:22; Josh. 3:10; 2 Sam. 22:31, 32; Neh. 1:5, 9:32; Isa. 9:6; Ezek. 10:5. El is linguistically equivalent to the Moslem "Allah," but the attributes of Allah in Islam are entirely different from those of the God of the Hebrews. ELAH is Aramaic, "god." Elah appears in the Hebrew Bible in Jer. 10:11 (which is in Aramaic, and is plural, "gods"). In Daniel (the Aramaic sections) Elah is used both of pagan gods, and of the true God, also plural. Elah is equivalent to the Hebrew Eloah which some think is dual; Elohim is three or more. The gods of the nations are called "elohim." The origin of Eloah is obscure. Elohim is the more common plural form of El. Eloah is used 41 times in Job between 3:4 and 40:2, but fewer than 15 times elsewhere in the OT. See the Catholic Encyclopedia entry on Elohim.





ELOHIM: God (a plural noun, more than two, used with singular verbs); Elohim occurs 2,570 times in the OT, 32 times in Gen. 1. God as Creator, Preserver, Transcendent, Mighty and Strong. Eccl., Dan. Jonah use Elohim almost exclusively. See Gen. 17:7, 6:18, 9:15, 50:24; I Kings 8:23; Jer. 31:33; Isa. 40:1.





EL SHADDAI: God Almighty or "God All Sufficient." 48 times in the OT, 31 times in Job. First used in Gen. 17:1, 2. (Gen. 31:29, 49:24, 25; Prov. 3:27; Micah 2:1; Isa. 60:15, 16, 66:10-13; Ruth 1:20, 21) In Rev. 16:7, "Lord God the Almighty." The Septuagint uses Greek "ikanos" meaning "all-sufficient" or "self-sufficient." The idols of the heathen are called "sheddim."





ADONAI: Lord in our English Bibles (Capitol letter 'L ', lower case, 'ord') (Adonai is plural, the sing. is "adon"). "Master'' or "Lord" 300 times in the OT always plural when referring to God, when sing. the reference is to a human lord. Used 215 times to refer to men. First use of Adonai, Gen. 15:2. (Ex. 4:10; Judges 6:15; 2 Sam. 7:18-20; Ps. 8, 114:7, 135:5, 141:8, 109:21-28). Heavy use in Isaiah (Adonai Jehovah). 200 times by Ezekiel. Ten times in Dan. 9.
Reply:Much of this answer is fine - but it starts with a total fabrication! "Yahweh" appears NOWHERE in the Tanakh ("Old Testament). The tetragrammaton, YHVH, does - but those vowels do NOT belong with it. Report Abuse

Reply:answer: JP is correct. The Hebrew language did not contain vowel symbols - so one is left with the initials YVHV (there is no "w" in Hebrew). No one knows what went between those letters.





Yahweh is a guess.





Jews do NOT use Yahweh and they wouldn't use the name if it were known. What is used is Adonai, Eloheim, HaShem, etc.
Reply:Unknown. The name has been lost since a little after the fall of the Second Temple.





The problem is, traditional Hebrew scripts contained no vowel markings. There are eight distinct places a vowel or vowel sound could be placed, and ten potential vowel sounds in Hebrew (ignoring an elevent that can be at the end of the word only). This means there are over 100,000,000 possible pronounciations.





Jehovah cannot be one of them though. Hebrew has no hard-J sound.


Yahweh cannot be one of them either. Hebrew has no W sound.





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Seeing a lot of people saying "yahweh".





I'd love to know how the name included a phonome that didn't even exist in the language. Someone care to explain?
Reply:The most holy name is YHVH. It was only ever spoken aloud by the High Priest in the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur. Hebrew is written without vowels (like other semitic languages) and we no longer know the way the High Priest pronounced the name. We have many other names for G-d - HaShem (the name), Adonai ('Lord'), Eyeh Asher Eyeh (which G-d gives as a name when Moses asks, and means I am what I am/I will be what I will be/etc) and many others. All of these are attempts to describe the indescribable, to name the unnameable. The name is not, as such, important. What matters is that our understanding of the divine is as being ONE.
Reply:I have my own name, within my heart. A name that hasn't been defiled by religion, I keep it to myself. You can do the same, if you are so inclined. :)





There is no "right" name for God. The I Am is the closest and the first words uttered by God when asked.
Reply:In Judaism we have many names for G-d. The holiest name, that was never spoken aloud, was YHVH. We don't know how it was pronounced; Hebrew has no vowels. Early Christian theologians wrongly inserted vowels and ended up with 'yahweh' and 'jehovah'. Neither is Jewish, we use neither.





The person who said 'yeshua' is both lying and insulting Judaism. **Some** Christian evangelists think that if they make Jesus sound 'more jewish' by calling him 'yeshua' it will encourage Jews to worship him. Newsflash to those evangelists: NO, IT WON'T.





As Jews we don't worship other dead Jews. We don't worship ANYONE or ANYTHING BUT G-D.





We call G-d 'Hashem', or 'the name'.


And 'Hamakom' or 'the place'.


And 'Adonai' or Lord (we use this mostly in prayer)





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Reply:the JEWISH god has many, many names, none of which are written down. to do so would be heresy. YWHW is not a name, so yahweh, jehovah, and other variants are not accurate.
Reply:There are 72 names, none of which we are worthy to utter aloud.





Whoever is writing that YHWH means Yahweh is quite ignorant.
Reply:I AM.
Reply:The great I AM
Reply:Jehovah didn't you see indiana jones? Starts with an I though!
Reply:the christian, jewish and islamic god are all the same people just htey all have different names for them. The jewish call the god bt the name of Yahweh
Reply:Yeshua.
Reply:YAHWAY
Reply:Yahweh
Reply:yahweh