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It has been stated that Jehovah's name occurs 6973 times in the original writing. The translators of the King James version of the Bible translated it LORD in all but 4 places, why do you suppose that happened?
The vast majority of Jewish and Christian biblical scholars and linguists do not believe “Jehovah” to be the proper pronunciation of YHWH. There was no true J sound in ancient Hebrew. Even the Hebrew letter vav, which is transliterated as the W in YHWH is said to have originally had a pronunciation closer to W than the V of Jehovah. Jehovah is essentially a Germanic pronunciation of the Latinized transliteration of the Hebrew YHWH. It is the letters of the tetragrammaton, Latinized into JHVH, with vowels inserted. “Yahweh” or “Yehowah” is far more likely to be the correct pronunciation.
It has been stated that Jehovah's name occurs 6973 times in the original writing. The translators of the King James version of the Bible translated it LORD in all but 4 places, why do you suppose that happened?
It has been stated that Jehovah's name occurs 6973 times in the original writing. The translators of the King James version of the Bible translated it LORD in all but 4 places, why do you suppose that happened?
Because the name Jehovah never actually appears. They used YHWH because they didn't use vowels.
If you'd bother to read the translator notes of any Bible, they'll tell you that they used "LORD" as a substitute for a name was that really is not pronounceable.
Jesus called the Father (Jehovah) the Lord of heaven and earth, in Matthew 11:25, Luke 10:21.
So, it is accurate to say that Jehovah is the one Lord.
See also 1 Corinthians 8:6, Ephesians 4:5, and 1 Corinthians 12:3.
The reason why they substituted LORD for Jehovah had to do with the fact that they were superstitious about pronouncing the divine name.
That is what we have been told Faith, the real truth is that satan tries to hide Jehovah's name. The truth is Jehovah did not allow removal of it, in fact I believe it is found in every Bible today in it's shortened form, but since His name has been declared in all the earth, He has allowed it to be removed from some in it's entirety but still has Jah in places. I find that interesting.Thanks for your comment.
The vast majority of Jewish and Christian biblical scholars and linguists do not believe “Jehovah” to be the proper pronunciation of YHWH. There was no true J sound in ancient Hebrew. Even the Hebrew letter vav, which is transliterated as the W in YHWH is said to have originally had a pronunciation closer to W than the V of Jehovah. Jehovah is essentially a Germanic pronunciation of the Latinized transliteration of the Hebrew YHWH. It is the letters of the tetragrammaton, Latinized into JHVH, with vowels inserted. “Yahweh” or “Yehowah” is far more likely to be the correct pronunciation.
I don't know why it is rendered LORD in the King James and other translations. I haven't bothered to find out why.
Yet, every single English translation that translates the Divine name into English uses Jehovah.
As you stated there is no J in Hebrew, but again we are speaking English.
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