![]() If it is accurate to state that the Hebrew word YAHAVAH is the combination of two words, YAH and HAVAH, the meaning of YAHAVAH would simply be “Yah is” or an equivalent of saying “ha YAH”, “the God”, as it is written in Exodus 3:14. Its meaning in essence is “to exist”, “to be” or “is”. But there is a Hebrew word pronounced “havah” (Strongs 1933 & 1934). NOTE: The Hebrew letter “vahv” can be pronounced either as a “w” or a “v”. If the word was pronounced Yahweh, there is no Hebrew word that I have knowledge, that is represented by these last two Hebrew letters which are pronounced “veh” or “weh”. What is most commonly pronounced as “Jehovah” I pronounce as YaHaVaH. But what does the last part of YAHAVAH, “havah”, bring to the meaning of the word?Īs a sidebar there is a controversy in the pronounciation of the four Hebrew letters which I pronounced as YaHaVaH and others pronounced as Jehovah and still others “Yahweh”. Now YAH from a past word study on this blog is the word for “God” with a sense of “The Giving One”. The first part of the word YAHAVAH is the Hebrew word, YAH. ![]() “Lord” is not a translation of the word “Yahavah”. It was by a Jewish custom assimilated by Christians that YAHAVAH was substituted by the Hebrew word, “adonai”, meaning and translated “Lord”, that “Lord” became the dominant word by far used to substitute (not translate) the word, YAHAVAH. Whenever they read Scripture (Old Testament) aloud and encountered the divine name, they substituted another Hebrew word, “Adoniy” (which means “Lord”), in its place.” The following exert explains why this Hebrew word is translated “Lord”: “Shortly before the first century A.D., it became common for Jews to avoid saying the divine name for fear of misusing it and breaking the second commandment (“You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain,” Dt 5:11). It is translated “Lord” 6,510 times God 4 times Jehovah 4 times and 1 other time a variant. The Hebrew word I pronounce, YAHAVAH (Strongs 3068), and others pronounce Jehovah or Yahweh, is found 6,519 times in the OT.
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