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YHWH is usually expanded to Yahweh in English. [11] Modern Rabbinical Jewish culture judges it forbidden to pronounce this name. In prayers it is replaced by the word אֲדֹנָי (Adonai, Hebrew pronunciation: ' My Lords ', Pluralis majestatis taken as singular), and in discussion by HaShem 'The Name'.
The Tetragrammaton in Phoenician (12th century BCE to 150 BCE), Paleo-Hebrew (10th century BCE to 135 CE), and square Hebrew (3rd century BCE to present) scripts. The Tetragrammaton [note 1] is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה (transliterated as YHWH or YHVH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible.
A few modern versions use the Tetragrammaton or equivalents like "Yahweh" or "Jehovah" to replace the words κύριος (Lord) and θεός (God) in the text of the New Testament as it appears in the manuscripts. Some long predate Howard's 1977 hypothesis and so are not linked with it. 135 such adaptations have been listed.
An Adonaist is a sect or party who maintain that the Hebrew language vowel points ordinarily annexed to the consonants of the word "Jehovah", are not the natural points belonging to that word, and that they do not express the true pronunciation of it; but that they are vowel points belonging to the words, Adonai and Elohim, applied to the ineffable name Jehovah, which the Jews were forbidden ...
The New Living Translation (1996), produced by Tyndale House Publishers as a successor to the Living Bible, generally uses L ORD, but uses Yahweh in Exodus 3:15 and 6:3. The Holman Christian Standard Bible (2004, revised 2008) mainly uses L ORD, but in its second edition increased the number of times it uses Yahweh from 78 to 495 (in 451 verses ...
Whenever 'ḥ' is used, it refers to ḥet. Resh is represented by an 'r,' though it's equivalent to Spanish 'r,' Spanish 'rr,' or French 'r,' depending on one's dialect. In all other regards, transliterations are according to the modern Hebrew pronunciation, based on the Sephardi tradition.
Some claim that the pronunciation was lost, or unknown. However, most prominent, authoritative reference works today support the view that the Name Yahweh was known, and is the most accurate spelling in to the English language. [5] [6] The Encyclopedia Judaica makes the following statement: The true pronunciation of the name YHWH was never lost.
Qudšu was later used in Jewish Aramaic to refer to God. [4]Words derived from the root qdš appear some 830 times in the Hebrew Bible. [9] [10] Its use in the Hebrew Bible evokes ideas of separation from the profane, and proximity to the Otherness of God, while in nonbiblical Semitic texts, recent interpretations of its meaning link it to ideas of consecration, belonging, and purification.