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Yahweh is the most commonly used name for God in the Old Testament. It occurs more than 6,500 times. It is the same name as Jehovah. Jehovah is actually a sort of “made up” word with an interesting story. Ancient Hebrew was written using only consonants—no vowels. (It was as if we spelled the name Hazel as HZL.)
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Jesus is Jehovah Tsidkenu—The Lord Our Righteousness The prophet Micah wrote that the Messiah would come from Bethlehem of the tribe of Judah (Micah 5:3; Matthew 2:4-6). The human genealogies of Jesus, recorded in Matthew 2:1:1-17; Luke 3:23-38, make a point of the fact that He was a descendant of both Judah and King David.
The name Jehovah is an English translation of the Hebrew name for God —the four letters יהוה (YHWH), known as the Tetragrammaton. The exact pronunciation of the divine name in ancient Hebrew is not known. However, the form “Jehovah” has a long history in the English language, first appearing in William Tyndale’s Bible translation of ...
Its name is Jehovah Shammah —God Is There (Ezekiel 48;35). John says of the New Jerusalem, “God is with men, and He will dwell with them. . . . God Himself will be with them” (Revelation 21:3). In vision, God takes Ezekiel to a high mountain to show him the restored city (Ezekiel 40:2). John says that an angel “carried me away in the ...
Jehovah Shalom. Jehovah Shalom means “The Lord is Peace” or “The Lord Is Our Peace.” It is one of the many names for God in the Bible. We find it in Judges 6:24 in connection with the story of Gideon. Jehovah Shalom and Gideon. The book of Judges tells of the days when the children of Israel were just settling into the “Promised Land.”
In the Bible, God says: “I am Jehovah. That is my name.” (Isaiah 42:8) Although he also has many titles, such as “God Almighty,” “Sovereign Lord,” and “Creator,” he honors his worshippers by inviting them to address him by his personal name.—. Genesis 17:1; Acts 4:24; 1 Peter 4:19. Many translations of the Bible contain God ...
The most frequently used name of all is Yahweh, the personal and covenant name for God; it occurs more than 6,500 times in the Old Testament. By some counts there are at least a hundred or more names or titles for God in the Bible. Jehovah Rapha in Exodus 15:26. In Hebrew, rapha means “to heal.” So Jehovah Rapha means “the Lord who heals ...
Jehovah Sabaoth is one of God’s names in the Bible. It occurs more than 270 times in the Old Testament. It combines God’s personal name, Jehovah (Yahweh), with the Hebrew word, sabaoth, meaning “host” or “multitude.”. So Jehovah Sabaoth means “The Lord of Hosts.”.
Jehovah is God’s personal name in Scripture. So Jehovah Rohi means “the Lord Is My Shepherd.”. It is one of God’s many names in the Bible. Both rohi and raah come from a Hebrew root word meaning “to feed” and came to mean a shepherd who feeds his flock. The image of God caring for us like a loving shepherd cares for his sheep is one ...