What is another name for Jehovah?

Answer 1

The closest thing would be Tetragrammaton which is what we call the name of God as it is written in Hebrew. It means "a word having four letters".

You see, the name of God was so holy to the Jews that they wouldn't say it aloud. They still don't. Only a very select few in the history of their religion have ever dared utter the name of God (Moses being one of them). So long has it been that they no longer know how to correctly say it. Most theologians have settled on Yahweh (said YAH-vay). The Hebrews would say other words like Adonai (Lord) or Elohim (god - one of many) or El Shaddai (God of the Mountain) instead of the real name. They would use the vowel signs from the intended word over the tetragrammaton so that the rabbi would know which word to use.

This is how the misnomer "jehovah" came to be. You see, when the old hebrew texts were translated into Latin, they had some problems. First, there is no Letter Y in Latin, so they had to use "I" to make the same "yah" sound. Second, Hebrew and Latin treat W and V in reverse. In Hebrew, W makes a V sound, and in Latin, there is no V sound, so V makes a W sound. So, what should have been YHWH became IHVH (no vowels in Hebrew, only vowel signs). So, someone looking at the vowel signs for Adonai, would see JaHoVaH, which became Jehovah. And because we Anglicize everything, the Yah became Juh, and the Wah became Vah. So, Yahweh (YAH-vay) became JaHoVaH (yah-ho-WAH) became Jehovah (Juh-HO-vuh).

So, think about that the next time you say an Our Father... Hallowed by THY name...

Answer 2

The true name is Yehowah. Jehovah is a German-Anglicization of the true Hebrew name Yehowah (YHWH).