There is much profit in studying the Hebrew names connected to Jehovah, what they mean, and how they applied to the individuals bearing those names. Please search them out and add them to this thread. They all end in "-iah" (KJV) or "Yah".
We could begin with Isaiah (Strong's 3470). The Hebrew name is Yeshayah (yesh-ah-yow), and literally means "Jah has saved" hence "salvation of Jehovah". When you study the prophecy of Isaiah, that is precisely what you find. It is primarily about Christ -- Yeshua -- God is [our] Salvation, even though there are several prophecies pertaining to judgment. The Ethiopian eunuch was reading the Isaiah scroll and was saved through the ministry of Philip the evangelist (Acts 8:26-40). The Isaiah scroll dating from around 200 BC was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls and was almost identical to that of the Masoretic Text from 900 AD. No coincidence.
I guess the first thing a person would profit by in studying the name of Jehovah, is realizing this name does not exist in Hebrew, and that the Jews consider this a perverted name, or the Name of the Lord which is YHWH.
There are no J's in the Hebrew language.
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
“Jehovah — False reading of the Hebrew YAHWEH.”
(“Jehovah,”
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1973 ed.)
Encyclopedia Americana:
“Jehovah — erroneous form of the name of the G-d of Israel.”
(
Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 16., 1972 ed.)
Encyclopedia Britannica:
“The Masoretes who from the 6th to the 10th century worked to reproduce the original text of the Hebrew Bible replaced the vowels of the name YHWH with the vowel signs of Adonai or Elohim. Thus
the artificial name
Jehovah came into being.”
(“Yahweh,”
The New Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. 12, 1993 ed.)
The Jewish Encyclopedia:
“Jehovah — a mispronunciation of the Hebrew YHWH the name of G-d. This pronunciation is grammatically impossible.”
(“Jehovah,”
The Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 7, 1904 ed.)
The New Jewish Encyclopedia:
“It is clear that the word Jehovah is an artificial composite.”
(“Jehovah,”
The New Jewish Encyclopedia, 1962 ed.)
The
Jewish Encyclopedia states that YHWH is "the distinctive personal name of the God of Israel", and describes the form "Jehovah" as "a philological impossibility".
Jehovah is a compound word
A compound word is two words together to form one word.
Example:
halleluyah – to praise the lord in song
Strong’s
# 3470 - Isaiah - Yĕsha`yah - from
(03467) and (
03050)
(03467) - yasha`- to save, be saved, be delivered
(03050) = yah - lord
Yĕsha`yah - the compound word means:
the lord is deliverer [savior]
Let’s look at the other part of the compound word “Jehovah”.
Yah - strong’s number
3050
The other part of this compound word is:
Hovah Strong’s number
1943
- ruin, disaster
Another form for
1943 is:
havvah Strong’s number
1942
- desire
- desire (in bad sense)
- chasm (fig. of destruction)
- engulfing ruin, destruction, calamity
KJV (15) - calamity, 4; iniquity, 1; mischief, 1; mischievous, 1; naughtiness, 1; naughty, 1; noisome, 1; perverse thing, 1; substance, 1; wickedness, 3;
# 1942 is from the word - hava'
- to fall
Hoveh on the other hand means: 1st person, male, present tense - to be i.e. I AM - though written with a double vav
In modern Hebrew grammar this matter is so serious and important, that the verb ‘to be’ (‘I am’) is not used in the present tense at all!
Usage of the Hebrew verb ‘HOVEH’ (I am) would imply referring to oneself as being the Almighty!
JLB
