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What does Yahweh mean? |
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Basically, when God says, "I am that I am," he is giving the translation of what the word "Yahweh" means. In other words, he is saying "My name is the fact that I exist." Etymologically, the word "Yahweh" is related to words that mean "to be" or "to create."
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Yahweh - Yahweh is the Hebrew God worshiped exclusively when the Hebrews became monotheists, c. 1000 BCE. This is the God in the Old Testament. The Hebrews believe that if they place their trust in Yahweh, then they will be provided for.
The name "Yahweh" is often translated "Jehovah."
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The Hebrew Alphabet has no vowels (a,e,i,o,u). Since god is un-nameable, the Hebrews assigned the conconants YHWH as label for their god. By adding vowels (modern alphabet) the name YaHWeH, and YeHoWaH (Jehovah) was arrived at.
Yaweh is the acepted name of god to the Hebrews. Jehovah was a misquote.
Yahweh
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Because the name was no longer pronounced and its own vowels were not written, its own pronunciation was forgotten. When Christians, unaware of the Jewish tradition, started to read the Hebrew Bible, they read יְהֹוָה as written with YHWH's consonants with Adonai's vowels, and thus said or transcribed Iehovah. Today this transcription is generally recognized as mistaken, however many religious groups continue to use the form Jehovah, because it is familiar and because the correct pronunciation of יהוה is unknown. (See Jehovah.)
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The name Yahweh appears to be a finite causative verb from the Northwest Semitiv root hwy, which means 'to be, to come into being' which would mean that the divine name would mean 'He causes to be, or exist,' i.e. 'He creates.' Apparently Amorite personal names after 2000 BC lend support to this Haupt-Albright view, 'demonstrating that the employment of the causative stem yahweh was in vogue in the liguistc background of early Hebrew.'
Source: Ungers Bible Dictionary p1375.
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