Jehovah Jehovah at Exodus 6:3 (1611 King James Version) is a Latinization of the Hebrew (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible, which has also been transcribed as Yehowah or Yahweh. Most scholars believe Jehovah to be a late (c. 1100 CE) hybrid form derived by combining the Latin letters JHVH with the vowels of Adonai, but some hold there is evidence that the Jehovah form of the Tetragrammaton may have been in use in Semitic and Greek phonetic texts and artifacts from Late Antiquity.[5][6] Others say that it is the pronunciation Yahweh that is testified in both Christian and pagan texts of the early Christian era.[5][8][9][10][11] Karaite Jews,[12] as proponents of the rendering Jehovah, state that although the original pronunciation of יהוה has been obscured by disuse of the spoken name according to oral Rabbinic law, well-established English transliterations of other Hebrew personal names are accepted in normal usage, such as Joshua, Isaiah or Jesus, for which the original pronunciations may be unknown.[12] They also point out that the English form Jehovah is quite simply an Anglicized form of Yehovah,[12] and preserves the four Hebrew consonants YHVH (with the introduction of the J sound in English).[12][13][14] Some argue that Jehovah is preferable to Yahweh, based on their conclusion that the Tetragrammaton was likely tri-syllabic originally, and that modern forms should therefore also have three syllables. appears 6,518 times in the traditional Masoretic Text
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