Yah-weh definition 3068. Yhvh ► Strongs Concordance Yhvh: the proper name of the God of Israel Original Word: יְהֹוָה Part of Speech: Proper Name Transliteration: Yhvh Phonetic Spelling: (yeh-ho-vaw) Short Definition: 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). Whenever they read Scripture aloud and encountered the divine name, they substituted another Hebrew word, Adonai (which means Lord or my Lord), in its place. Eventually Hebrew developed written vowels, which appeared as small marks called vowel points and were placed above and below the consonants of a word. In the sixth or seventh century some Jews began to place the vowel points for Adonai over the consonants for Yahweh to remind the reader of Scripture to say Adonai whenever he read Yahweh. About the 13th century the term Jehovah appeared when Christian scholars took the consonants of Yahweh and pronounced it with the vowels of Adonai. This resulted in the sound Yahowah, which has a Latinized spelling of Jehovah. The first recorded use of this spelling was made by a Spanish Dominican monk, Raymundus Martini, in 1270. Interestingly, this fact is admitted in much Jehovahs Witness literature, such as their Aid to Bible Understanding (p. 885). This is surprising because Jehovahs Witnesses loathe the Catholic Church and have done everything in their power to strip their church of traces of Catholicism. Despite this, their groups very name contains a Catholic invention, the name Jehovah. Jehovahs Witnesses blast orthodox Christendom for hiding the name of God by replacing Jehovah with the Lord whenever Jehovah appears in Scripture. They charge this is a Jewish superstition that dishonors God (which it does not). Yet their own organization has a name that was invented as a result of the same thinking that produced use of the Lord. .............The Fingerprint of God - Fibonacci numbers - Inspirational Videos godtube/watch/?v=9CB2FJNU
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