What is GOD’s NAME Really?
Is God’s name really even Jehovah? I don’t see how it could be. There was never any J sound or even any V sound in ancient Hebrew. There is a V sound in modern Hebrew, but not in the original ancient Hebrew, and there’s no J sound even in modern Hebrew. If YHWH is a correct transliteration from the four ancient Hebrew letters of Yad, Hey, Waw, Hey, then why would you wind up pronouncing YHWH as Jehovah when there is no J or V in YHWH. Wouldn’t it be something more like Yehowah or Yahuwah where you actually use the Y and the W from YHWH?
The four ancient Hebrew letters Yad-Hey-Waw-Hey (יהוה) are commonly accepted as transliterating into YHWH but is that even correct? And why do they say that the Hebrew alphabet contains only consonants and no vowels when several Hebrew letters have the ability to make vowel sounds as well?
Look at the sounds of the ancient Hebrew letters Yad-Hey-Waw-Hey on this chart from the Ancient-Hebrew org website.
https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/alphabet/hebrew-alphabet-chart.htm
Letter - Sounds
(Yad) - Y or EE
(Hey) - AH or H
(Waw) - U or O or W
(Hey) - AH or H
YHWH is indeed one possible choice of letters from the list of possible letter sounds, but if you pick the first sound listed for each letter above, instead of it transliterating into something unpronounceable like YHWH, it transliterates into the name of God being YAHUAH. This appears to be the correct letter sounds to choose because we can see examples of this same pronunciation of God’s name in the names of many of the prophets in the old testament. Many of these prophets had included within their name part of God’s name. For example, the original Hebrew pronunciation of the prophet Elijah’s name was Eliyahu. There are two shortened versions of YAHUAH God’s name. One is YAH and the other is YAHU, and the last half of Elijah’s/Eliyahu‘s name is “Yahu”. The first half of his name “Eli” means “My God” so the name Eliyahu means “My God is YAHU”.
God’s name is YAHU, which is just a shortened form of His full name YAHUAH. Even more fascinating is what this name actually means. In the Hebrew language, each letter has a meaning. The earliest ancient Hebrew was written with pictographic symbols.
(Yad) was a symbol of an arm with a hand.
(Hey) was a symbol of a man with raised arms, meaning look or behold.
(Waw) was a symbol of a tent peg or nail.
(Hey) again was the symbol of a man with raised arms, meaning look or behold.
(Yad) (Hey) (Waw) (Hey)
Hand Behold Nail Behold
So you could say that Yad-Hey-Waw-Hey means “Hand Behold, Nail Behold”, or as we would say it in modern English - *Behold the hand, behold the nail.*
Remember, this is the name of God in the Bible, the name (יהוה) that Jehovah’s Witnesses pronounce as Jehovah, and it actually means – Behold the hand, behold the nail. Think about that. It sounds like it’s talking about Jesus who would be nailed to the cross or wooden steak. Before the foundation of the world Almighty God chose to call himself “Behold the hand, behold the nail”. That is what the true name of God actually means. His name is “Behold the hand, behold the nail” and it is correctly pronounced YAHUAH.
For even more proof of this info check out “The Name of God Series” at: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLru2qbCMGOi4xaPtUfKykVU0HbOZK-LeJ
and these other references:
Is God’s name really even Jehovah? I don’t see how it could be. There was never any J sound or even any V sound in ancient Hebrew. There is a V sound in modern Hebrew, but not in the original ancient Hebrew, and there’s no J sound even in modern Hebrew. If YHWH is a correct transliteration from the four ancient Hebrew letters of Yad, Hey, Waw, Hey, then why would you wind up pronouncing YHWH as Jehovah when there is no J or V in YHWH. Wouldn’t it be something more like Yehowah or Yahuwah where you actually use the Y and the W from YHWH?
The four ancient Hebrew letters Yad-Hey-Waw-Hey (יהוה) are commonly accepted as transliterating into YHWH but is that even correct? And why do they say that the Hebrew alphabet contains only consonants and no vowels when several Hebrew letters have the ability to make vowel sounds as well?
Look at the sounds of the ancient Hebrew letters Yad-Hey-Waw-Hey on this chart from the Ancient-Hebrew org website.
https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/alphabet/hebrew-alphabet-chart.htm
Letter - Sounds
(Yad) - Y or EE
(Hey) - AH or H
(Waw) - U or O or W
(Hey) - AH or H
YHWH is indeed one possible choice of letters from the list of possible letter sounds, but if you pick the first sound listed for each letter above, instead of it transliterating into something unpronounceable like YHWH, it transliterates into the name of God being YAHUAH. This appears to be the correct letter sounds to choose because we can see examples of this same pronunciation of God’s name in the names of many of the prophets in the old testament. Many of these prophets had included within their name part of God’s name. For example, the original Hebrew pronunciation of the prophet Elijah’s name was Eliyahu. There are two shortened versions of YAHUAH God’s name. One is YAH and the other is YAHU, and the last half of Elijah’s/Eliyahu‘s name is “Yahu”. The first half of his name “Eli” means “My God” so the name Eliyahu means “My God is YAHU”.
God’s name is YAHU, which is just a shortened form of His full name YAHUAH. Even more fascinating is what this name actually means. In the Hebrew language, each letter has a meaning. The earliest ancient Hebrew was written with pictographic symbols.
(Yad) was a symbol of an arm with a hand.
(Hey) was a symbol of a man with raised arms, meaning look or behold.
(Waw) was a symbol of a tent peg or nail.
(Hey) again was the symbol of a man with raised arms, meaning look or behold.
(Yad) (Hey) (Waw) (Hey)
Hand Behold Nail Behold
So you could say that Yad-Hey-Waw-Hey means “Hand Behold, Nail Behold”, or as we would say it in modern English - *Behold the hand, behold the nail.*
Remember, this is the name of God in the Bible, the name (יהוה) that Jehovah’s Witnesses pronounce as Jehovah, and it actually means – Behold the hand, behold the nail. Think about that. It sounds like it’s talking about Jesus who would be nailed to the cross or wooden steak. Before the foundation of the world Almighty God chose to call himself “Behold the hand, behold the nail”. That is what the true name of God actually means. His name is “Behold the hand, behold the nail” and it is correctly pronounced YAHUAH.
For even more proof of this info check out “The Name of God Series” at: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLru2qbCMGOi4xaPtUfKykVU0HbOZK-LeJ
and these other references:
