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   From: none@none.non   
      
   On Oct 19, 2025, James wrote   
   (Message-ID:):   
      
   > God's Personal Name: What is it?   
   >   
   > NO ONE TODAY KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. PERIOD.   
   >   
   > It is found in the Bible in the form of 4 Hebrew consonant letters:   
   > YHWH (some say YHVH)   
   > Those 4 Hebrew letters are called the Tetragrammaton. They occur in   
   > the Bible about 7000 times.   
   >   
   > The favored English name by Hebrew Scholars is the TRANSLITERATED name   
   > "Yahweh". But each language has its own pronunciation of the   
   > TRANSLATED name. Here are some examples:   
   >   
   > English= Jehovah. (Latinized) KJV Bible Ps 83:18.   
   > In Danish "Jehova"   
   > In Fijan "Jiova"   
   > In Italian "Geova"   
   > In Japanese "Ehoba"   
   > In Spanish "Jehová"   
   > In French "Je'hovah (conventional literary form)   
   > In German "Jehovah" (German Elberfelder version)   
   > (See Deut 4:2)   
   >   
   > But for English, the most known name for God is the Latinized name   
   > "Jehovah". It has been around since the 17th century. The popular King   
   > James Version of 1611, recorded it in a few places such as Ex 6:3 and   
   > Ps 83:18.   
   >   
   > Notice:   
   >   
   > "Biblical scholar Francis B. Dennio said: "Jehovah misrepresents   
   > Yahweh no more than Jeremiah misrepresents Yirmeyahu. The settled   
   > connotations of Isaiah and Jeremiah forbid questioning their right."   
   > Dennio argued that the form Jehovah is not a barbarism, but is the   
   > best English form available, being that it has for centuries gathered   
   > the necessary connotations and associations for valid use in English."   
   > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah)   
   >   
   > A superstition arose around the 2nd century BCE that said NOT to   
   > pronounce the divine name. The reasons are unclear, but one reason is   
   > that the divine name was too holy to pronounce. Yet the Bible recorded   
   > it almost 7000 times   
   >   
   > Anyway, they substituted the Tetragrammaton for "Lord" or "God". And   
   > most ALL translations follow that example. For example, compare the   
   > two:   
   >   
   > -- King James   
   > Exodus 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob,   
   > by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to   
   > them.   
   >   
   > -- New King James   
   > Exodus 6:3 "I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God   
   > Almighty, but by My name, Lord, I was not known to them.   
   >   
   > So is "Jehovah" a legitimate name for God? Again notice:   
   >   
   > ""the English form Jehovah is an Anglicized form of Yehovah,"[18] and   
   > preserves the four Hebrew consonants "YHVH" (with the introduction of   
   > the "J" sound in English).[18][20][21] 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.[22]"   
   > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah)   
   >   
   > So "Jehovah" "preserves the four Hebrew consonants of "YHVH"" and   
   > today is the most used name for God.   
   >   
   > The Septuagint (OT in Greek instead of Hebrew) of today is of the 4th   
   > or 5th centuries C.E. And sure enough, by that time pronouncing the   
   > Tetragrammaton was not done. But in it's place they inserted the words   
   > "Lord" or "God".   
   >   
   > BUT the original Septuagint DID contain the Tetragrammaton. A fragment   
   > of the Septuagint (2nd half of Deuteronomy) DID contain the   
   > Tetragrammaton. (See Inventory Number 266 of the Fouad Papyri) It has   
   > a date by scholars of around 2nd or 1st B.C.E.   
      
   The septuagint was written in Greek.   
      
   “And I appeared to Abraam and Isaac and Jacob, being their God, but I did   
   not manifest to them my name Lord.” (Exo 6:3, Brenton)   
      
   “And G2532  I appeared G3708  to G4314  Abraham, G*    
   and G2532  Isaac, G*  and G2532  Jacob, G*    
   [3God G2316 1being G1510.6 2their]. G1473  And G2532 G3588    
   my name, G3686 G1473  the LORD, G2962  was not G3756    
   manifested G1213  to them. G1473 ” (Exo 6:3)   
      
   >   
   > The NWT has restored the OT Tetragrammaton in all of its nearly 7000   
   > places.   
   >   
   > Sincerely James   
      
   NWT Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.   
      
   Throughout that chapter the word “God’ was used.   
      
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