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Memra d'Adonai – 'The Word of the L ORD ' (plus variations such as 'My Word') – restricted to the Aramaic Targums (the written Tetragrammaton is represented in various ways such as YYY, YWY, YY, but pronounced as the Hebrew Adonai) Mi She'amar V'haya Ha`olam – 'He who spoke, and the world came into being'.
Jellicoe cites various scholars (B. J. Roberts, Baudissin, Kahle and C. H. Roberts) and various segments of the Septuagint concluding that the absence of Adonai from the text [clarify] suggests that the insertion of the term Κύριος was a later practice; [193] that the Septuagint Κύριος is used to substitute YHWH; and that the ...
The second part, Yah, is a shortened form of YHWH, and is a shortened form of his name "God, Jah, or Jehovah". [3] The name ceased to be pronounced in Second Temple Judaism, by the 3rd century BC due to religious beliefs. [15] The correct pronunciation is not known. However, it is sometimes rendered in non-Jewish sources as "Yahweh" or "Jehovah".
Thus Jehovah was obtained by adding the vowels of Adonai to the consonants of YHWH. [16] Jehovah appears in Tyndale's Bible, the King James Version, and other translations from that time period and later. In Christianity, certain hymns dedicated to God invoke the divine name using the vocalization Jehovah, such as Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah ...
The name Iehova at a Lutheran church in Norway [13]. Most scholars believe the name Jehovah (also transliterated as Yehowah) [14] to be a hybrid form derived by combining the Hebrew letters יהוה (YHWH, later rendered in the Latin alphabet as JHVH) with the vowels of Adonai.
According to some, the Thirteen Attributes begin with the first "Adonai", in verse 6, and end with the word "ve-nakeh" in verse 7. [9] The single attributes are contained in the verses as follows: יְהוָה YHVH (compassion before a person sins [10]); יְהוָה YHVH (compassion after a person has sinned [10]);
Some translations use a form of "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" only sporadically: Inconsistent translation of tetragrammaton, both "Ever-living" for the tetragrammaton, as well as "Jehovah", Numbers 14, Ferrar Fenton Bible 5 Sacred Name Bibles. The Complete Bible: An American Translation by John Merlin Powis Smith (1939), e.g. Exodus 3:15, 6:3, 17:15
In English, they prefer to use the form Jehovah. [34] According to their New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, the name Jehovah means "He causes to become". [35] Though scholars prefer the form Yahweh, Jehovah's Witnesses maintain that the name Jehovah is the most well known form in English.