JEHOVAH IS THE NAME OF GOD: Did you know this?

I'm one of Jehovah's witness so you have no argument. If people would put scriptures in the correct context ,as most say Gods is his name,or lord. They should read the new kjv that put Jehovah;s name back home.

JEHOVAH—the name of the Sovereign Lord of the universe. It is the name by which he himself chose to be identified. The Tetragrammaton (as the four Hebrew letters of God’s name are known) occurs in the Hebrew text of the Bible nearly 7,000 times—far more often than does any descriptive title for God. That name is no mere label. It distinguishes the true God from all other gods, including man-made gods. It is the name that all intelligent creatures should know, honor, and sanctify.

The name Jehovah identifies the Creator of heaven and earth (Ge 2:4), the God and Father of Jesus Christ (Mt 4:10; Joh 20:17), the One who has promised to establish “new heavens and a new earth” in which righteousness will prevail.—Isa 65:17, 25; 2Pe 3:13.

Surprisingly, many Bible translations today do not contain the divine name at all. Why? A superstitious idea arose among the Jews that it was wrong to pronounce that name. This resulted first in avoiding spoken use of the divine name among the Jews, then in removal of God’s personal name from Greek manuscripts of the Holy Scriptures. Eventually, in most translations of the Bible the divine name was completely replaced by expressions such as “Lord” and “God.” It is noteworthy that only the most vital name of all—Jehovah—was tampered with; other Bible names were not.

Yet, it is vital for all mankind to know the divine name. (Ro 10:13) This involves much more than just knowing what God’s personal name is. It includes knowing also the person represented by the name and living in a way consistent with the purposes connected with that name. It is the responsibility of all who worship the true God to be diligent in making his name known to others, as Jesus did. (Joh 17:6, 26) Jehovah God promises to bless those who know, use, and honor his great name.—Ps 91:14.

“Jah,” the shorter form of the divine name, occurs in the Greek expression hal·le·lou·i·a', a transliteration of the Hebrew ha·lelu-Yah', “Praise Jah, you people!” Re (4 times) 19:1, 3, 4, 6.—See Ps 104:35 King James Bible(Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD. )

The Tetragrammaton [יהוה] appears more than 7000 times in all transaltions, how they translated the Tetragrammaton [יהוה] is another story.

Earlier translations translated it LORD or GOD, the King James translated the Tetragrammaton [יהוה] Jehovah in 4 places and all others LORD or GOD.

Every translation derives with different ways they translate [יהוה] (Tetragrammaton) so no matter how they translate it still comes from one word [יהוה] the Tetragrammaton.

Yĕhovah is the correct translation but since there's no "Y" it is pronounced with a soft "g" , this is know by all language translators so the correct way to pronounce God's name in English is [JEHOVAH]!

Is God’s name Jehovah?

The name Jehovah occurs a few times in the King James Bible. This name, however, arose by mistake. Harper’s Bible Dictionary says that it was “the result of the translators’ ignorance of the Hebrew language and customs” (1985 edition, p. 1036). The book World Religions From Ancient History to the Present says: “The name Jehovah is a medieval misreading and does not occur in the Hebrew Bible (edited by Geoffrey Parrinder, p. 386).

The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible says that the name Jehovah is “an artificial name” (vol. 2, p. 817).

Asimov’s Guide to the Bible says that the name Jehovah “arose by mistake” (vol. 1, p. 135).

...Let us try to understand here how this mistake arose, and how we may correct it.

The most famous name for God in the Old Testament is called the Sacred Tetragrammaton, which means a word consisting of four letters. No one today knows how to pronounce the tetragrammaton, because all four letters, YHWH, are all consonants. How can you pronounce a word without vowels?

The word Jehovah is a mistaken pronunciation of this word. The mistake arose when a Christian scholar Petrus Galantinus (around A.D. 1520) combined the consonants YHWH with vowels belonging to a different word Adonai. The vowels a, o, and a of Adonai, were dovetailed into the four letters to form YaHoWaH. This was written out Jahowah because in Latin the initial J is pronounced like initial Y in English (see Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, vol. 1, p. 135). Jahowah was further anglicized Jehovah (see also The Oxford English Dictionary, 1933 edition, reprinted 1961, p. 564).

Even those who continue in this mistake today admit that the name Jehovah arose in this fashion. For example the book The Divine Name that will Endure Forever, says on page 8:

“When it came to God’s name, instead of putting the proper vowel signs around it, in most cases they put other vowel signs to remind the reader that he should say ‘Adho’nai. From this came the spelling Iehoauah, and eventually, Jehovah . . .” (published by Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1984).

The same book says on page 7: “The truth is, nobody knows for sure how the name of God was originally pronounced.”

I am amazed at how people are still using the argument that there is no J in Hebrew, well if that is the case WHY DO YOU SAY JESUS and not "Yeshuah" double standards I think, or did you really believe that his name was Jesus !! Sorry you can't have you cake and eat it at the same time.

If you Google "new divine name King James Bible" you will find that there is a new KJB that has put Jehovah back into the bible 6,000 times!

Where, though, did pronunciations like Yahweh/Jehovah come from? These are forms that have been suggested by modern scholars trying to deduce the original pronunciation of God's name. Some—though not all—feel that the Israelites before the time of Jesus probably pronounced God's name Yahweh. But no one can be sure. Perhaps they pronounced it that way, perhaps not.

Nevertheless, many prefer the pronunciation Jehovah. Why? Because it has a currency and familiarity that Yahweh does not have. Would it not, though, be better to use the form that might be closer to the original pronunciation? Not really, for that is not the custom with Bible names.

To take the most prominent example, consider the name of Jesus. Do you know how Jesus' family and friends addressed him in day-to-day conversation while he was growing up in Nazareth? The truth is, no human knows for certain, although it may have been something like Yeshua (or perhaps Yehoshua). It certainly was not Jesus.

No one says that we should not use the name of Jesus when in the original hebrew Jesus is "Yeshua"

However, when the accounts of his life were written in the Greek language, the inspired writers did not try to preserve that original Hebrew pronunciation. Rather, they rendered the name in Greek, I·e·sous'. Today, it is rendered differently according to the language of the reader of the Bible. Spanish Bible readers encounter Jesús (pronounced Hes·soos'). Italians spell it Gesù (pronounced Djay·zoo'). And Germans spell it Jesus (pronounced Yay'soos).

Must we stop using the name of Jesus because most of us, or even all of us, do not really know its original pronunciation? So far, no translator has suggested this. We like to use the name, for it identifies the beloved Son of God, Jesus Christ, who gave his lifeblood for us. Would it be showing honor to Jesus to remove all mention of his name in the Bible and replace it with a mere title like "Teacher," or "Mediator"? Of course not! We can relate to Jesus when we use his name the way it is commonly pronounced in our language.

By Gods name you mean the Father?

Jehovah if anyone is the name of Jesus

prehuman existence in the OT!

There as been no proof that Jehovahs name taken

out of bible. All scrolls found dont show that name.

Where JWs have added the name where 'J' verses are

only 'amended' it where it suited them,

There was 50 other places like 1 Peter 3:15 which they

didnt include BECAUSE it showed that Jesus was Jehovah!

Obviously you are one of Jehovah's Witnesses as I am. I want to point something out, though, so that those who read your comments are not confused about what you are saying. As you said, Jehovah is God's name according to the Bible. But when you said that "he" sat at the right hand of God, you did not identify the "he". Thus it looks like you are classifying God as sitting at the right hand of God, which of course is not true and I know that's not what you meant. So, to elaborate on what you said, Jesus - the Son of God - is the "he" that sat at the right hand of God because Jesus is the one being talked about in Hebrews 1:3, 4 which say: "(3) He is the reflection of [his] glory and the exact representation of his very being, and he sustains all things by the word of his power; and after he had made a purification for our sins he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty in lofty places. (4) So he has become better than the angels, to the extent that he has inherited a name more excellent than theirs."

Hebrew has a verb that may be translated as "to exist unconditionally and permanently". There is a separate verb to mean "exist" in our usual sense of the word. The verb can only be used to describe God - since by definition God is what exists unconditionally and permanently - and only God can use it in the first person singular. In Hebrew, the word is Yahweh and it is how God described himself to Abraham.

Although Yahweh was much used in early Old Testament writing, it was subsequently considered too holy a word for anyone to speak. Jesus used the word in John 8:58 which is why his hearers were about to stone him to death. When reading from a scroll that included the word Yahweh, the lector would replace it with Adoni - a word meaning "the Lord".

Early Hebrew writing had no vowels. Later, diacritic marks were introduced into Hebrew to indicate vowel sounds. Some early scrolls had diacritic marks added to them, but when the scribes came across the consonants for Yahweh, they added the diacritic marks for Adoni.

The Old Testament in the Christian Bible used a Koine Greek translation known as the Septuagint and the Western Church used the Latin translation of this by Jerome. For centuries the Greek and Latin were regarded as the immutable word of God. However around the 12th century, Christian scholars started studying ancient Hebrew manuscripts and came across this hybrid of Yahweh and Adoni and rendered it Jehovah. That Christian howler stuck with the Western Church until we started being polite to Jews in the 19th century and they pointed out our mistake. The word would have been quietly assigned to the dustbin of literary howlers, had an all-American branch of the Arian heresy not decided to resurrect it as the name of their God and religion.

If Jehovah really is the name of God, then JWs should acknowledge that Jesus claimed to be Jehovah in John 8:58. So was he a blaspheming liar - or was he God as Christians believe? Please don't knock on my door again until you have the answer.

That's your translation of the name of God, that's OK if you want to use it.

I would not say it is wrong or right, per se, but it would still be a translation, as there is no "J" sound in the Hebrew language (Jesus is also a translation, actually a contraction that means "YHWH is salvation"

That word Jehovah was invented by trying to fit the vowels from the translation of Jesus' name Yeshua into the tetragrammaton (YHWH, usually translated "The LORD"). While others have translated it "Yahweh"

If you read an actual translation of the scriptures instead of the poorly and totally un-precedented re-write "New Word Translation" this would be more clear to you.

JEHOVA IS NOT HIS NAME. There is NO 'J' in the Hebrew language, so unfortunately this is not correct. Just like 'Jesus' is not the name of Messiah.

Just like Simon Peter was NOT HIS NAME. His name was Simon Kheefus. 'Kheefus' in Hebrew meaning rock, or stone. Translated to Greek; 'Stone in Greek is 'petros' so therefore we get the nickname 'ptr'. So, you have Simon Peter.

There is no such thing of a 'Jew' in the Hebrew language being that there is no 'J'

One famous scholar calls this 'J-walking' and when you 'J-walk' you should be arrested.