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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.
The Beta Israel pronounce the Tetragrammaton as Yahu, but also use the Geʽez term Igziabeher. [24] The Tetragrammaton appears in Genesis [25] and occurs 6,828 times in total in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia edition of the Masoretic Text.
Some pronounce it as fourteen words composed of three letters each, while others pronounce it as seven words composed of six letters each. The scholars of this land [Spain] follow the latter method, and such is the tradition received from Hayy, but I heard that the scholars of Ashkenaz pronounce it as fourteen three-letter words.
Some hold that there is evidence that a form of the Tetragrammaton similar to Jehovah may have been in use in Semitic and Greek phonetic texts and artifacts from Late Antiquity. [15] Others say that it is the pronunciation Yahweh that is testified in both Christian and pagan texts of the early Christian era. [15] [16] [17] [18]
Jah or Yah (Hebrew: יָהּ , Yāh) is a short form of the tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the personal name of God: Yahweh, which the ancient Israelites used. The conventional Christian English pronunciation of Jah is / ˈ dʒ ɑː /, even though the letter J here transliterates the palatal approximant (Hebrew י Yodh).
Modern scholarship teaches that the Masoretes added the Hebrew vowel points Shewa, Holem, and Qamets to the the four Hebrew letters of unpointed tetragrammaton, not to help the Jewish reader to pronounce God's name correctly, but rather to indicate to the Jewish reader, that he was to read the name "Adonai", instead of reading God's name.
The usual Jewish practice at the time of the Masoretes was to pronounce it as "Adonai", as is still the Jewish custom today. [6] Occasionally, the Tetragrammaton is marked יֱהֹוִה (Deuteronomy 3:24, Psalms 73:28) to indicate a qere of אֱלֹהִים Elohim, another Divine Name. [7]
Jehovah-jireh in King James Bible 1853 Genesis 22:14. In the Masoretic Text, the name is יְהוָה יִרְאֶה (yhwh yirʾeh).The first word of the phrase is the Tetragrammaton (יהוה), YHWH, the most common name of God in the Hebrew Bible, which is usually given the pronunciation Yahweh in scholarly works. [1]