Jehovah
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Jehovah is the conversion of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה (YHWH) to Latin. YHWH is the personal name of God in the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Old Testament to Christians.[2][3][4]
The majority of scholars agree that the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton is possibly—but most likely—Yahweh. The pronunciation of this name was simply lost because in Second Temple Judaism during the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE, saying this name began to be discouraged because it was "too holy". So instead of saying YHWH, Jews used other ways to refer to their God, like Adonai.
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- ↑ Exodus 6:3 KJV
- ↑ Stahl, Michael J.. The "God of Israel" in History and Tradition. Vetus Testamentum: Supplements 187 (2021). Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. p. 52–144. ISBN 978-90-04-44772-1. doi:10.1163/9789004447721_003.
- ↑ Stahl, Michael J.. The "God of Israel" in History and Tradition. Vetus Testamentum: Supplements 187 (2021). Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. p. 52–144. ISBN 978-90-04-44772-1. doi:10.1163/9789004447721_003.
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"Jehovah" at Exodus 6:3 (King James Version)
The name Iehova at a Lutheran church in Norway
A 1552 Latin translation of the Sefer Yetzirah, using the form Iehouah for the "magnum Nomen tetragrammatum"
The spelling of the Tetragrammaton and connected forms in the Hebrew Masoretic text of the Bible, with vowel points shown in red
The "peculiar, special, honorable and most blessed name of God" Iehoua, an older English form of Jehovah (Roger Hutchinson, The image of God, 1550)
Jehovah in King James Bible 1853 Isaiah 12:2
Semi-dome over apse in Saint Martin's Catholic Church of Olten, Switzerland, completed in 1910
Similar Greek name Ιεωα in Col. 15 line 10 in PGM VII 531 dated to the 3rd-century CE.
Excerpts from Raymond Martin's Pugio Fidei adversus Mauros et Judaeos (1270, p. 559), containing the phrase "Jehova, sive Adonay, qvia Dominus es omnium" (Jehovah, or Adonay, for you are the Lord of all)
Geneva Bible, 1560 (Psalm 83:18)
Yahweh 5 (2008-02-15)Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing / Brill. p. 823–824. ISBN 978-90-04-14596-2.
