TOP 10 REASONS why the Creator’s Name is not ‘YEHOVAH’ Reason 1: The Masoretic scribes meticulously captured 8 clear technical proofs in their Hebrew Bible manuscripts, proving that the vowels ‘Shᵉwa Cholem Qamets,’ on the Name are the vowels of Adonai. Together, these 8 proofs occur more than 1100 times in the Hebrew Old Testament. see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video6-yhwh, and www.HebrewGospels.com/video-7-yhwh Reason 2: Most people who insist that the Name is ‘Yehovah’ do so based on the erroneous assertion that Nehemia Gordon is a trustworthy, honest Karaite Jew who teaches the truth. see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video-8-yhwh Reason 3: The pronunciation ‘Yehovah’ has no Hebrew grammatical explanation. Nehemia Gordon, who is repeatedly portrayed as a “Hebrew scholar” is so desperate to explain the etymology of ‘Yehovah’ that he reads and writes Hebrew in the wrong direction! see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video1-yhwh Reason 4: The pronunciation ‘Yehovah’ never was a secret. Nehemia Gordon did not discover this pronunciation, nor the ‘missing vowel’ on the Name, so there is nothing to be excited about. see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video2-yhwh Reason 5: Contrary to the claims of Nehemia Gordon, the missing ‘Cholem’ on the Name just confirms that dummy vowels were placed on the name, both in the standard Masoretic manuscripts as well as the Aleppo Codex. For example, in the Aleppo Codex the ‘Cholem’ is usually missing on Adonai, and thus the missing ‘Cholem’ just confirms that Adonai’s vowels were placed on the Name יהוה . see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video5-yhwh Reason 6: The “10 Rabbis” (actually 16) whom Nehemia Gordon quotes in an attempt to prove that ‘Yehovah’ is the original Name, followed the kabbalistic ‘bible’ called the Zohar (a fraudulent, blasphemous, occult book) - and / or a tradition based on this book. This tradition holds to multiple erroneous sacred names, and does not give the original pronunciation. Some of these Rabbis even articulate that the vowels of Adonai were placed on the Name. see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video-9-yhwh, and www.HebrewGospels.com/video-10-yhwh Reason 7: It is common knowledge that the Name יהוה was read (pronounced) as Adonai and Elohim. In such ‘ketiv-qere’ situations the scribes never put the original vowels on the word in question. The Masoretic scribes always pointed the Name with the dummy vowels intended to be read (either from Adonai or Elohim) which, if ignorantly read with the consonants, would yield the two gibberish names “Yehovah” and “Yehovih” - not one original name. see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video3-yhwh, and www.HebrewGospels.com/video4-yhwh Reason 8: Contrary to the claims of Nehemia Gordon, the best Hebrew Bible manuscripts prove that the vowel points ‘Shᵉwa Cholem Qamets’ are the grammatically correct vowels to be placed on the Name for reading “Adonai” instead of the Name itself! see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video4-yhwh Reason 9: Nehemia Gordon convinces his unwitting followers of thousands of authentic Hebrew Bible manuscripts that supposedly prove in ‘black and white’ that Yehovah is the original, Hebrew pronunciation of the Name. However, he has not shown even one Hebrew Bible manuscript in which the Masoretic scribes indicated with their grammar and pointings that the original Name is ‘Yehovah.’ This also being the case for Nehemia’s “B52 Bomber” manuscript. see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video6-yhwh, and www.HebrewGospels.com/video-7-yhwh Reason 10: Nehemia Gordon’s supposed vowel rhyme of “Yahavah, Ahavah, and Yehovah” in John chapter 17 is completely fabricated and does not exist! see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video-8-yhwh For an in-depth explanation and evidence for the above claims, please visit: www.HEBREWGOSPELS.com/yhwh
Thank you, thank you, thank you. About 5 yrs ago, the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) spoke to me about "The Name of God". I went looking and ran into so much confusion that I gave up. Yet longing to know God's Name had continued to stir up within my heart. There is something so special in knowing the Father's Name, for He is our/my Father. When I read Paul's letter to the Church in Philippi 3, I hear him say :"that I may know Him". To know in this verse implies a deep, intimate knowing of the Anointed One; and to do that means knowing His character, His heart and His Name! God is not just the Creator and Giver of Life, but my Father/Abba, and the Shepherd of my soul, and to know Him is to yield myself completely to Him without reservation or doubt. In my prayer book I write Baruch HaShem. Now to finally settle that HaShem is Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the God and Father of my Beloved Yeshua, the Father of Glory!
Dr. Barrick mentions the "Egyptian" Alexandrian Jews @ 1:28. This fulfills Jeremiah's prophecy in Jeremiah 44:26: "But hear the word of Yahweh, all you Jews living in Egypt: ‘I swear by my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that no one from Judah living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name or swear, “As surely as the Sovereign Yahweh lives.” These Jews were known as Hellenistic Jews. As William Barrick points out they were the Jews responsible for removing the name Yahweh from use which Jeremiah prophesied. They were also the Jews who wrote the Septuagint. Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Greek culture. Until the early Muslim conquests of the eastern Mediterranean, the main centers of Hellenistic Judaism were Alexandria in Egypt and Antioch in Syria (now in southern Turkey), the two main Greek urban settlements of the Middle East and North Africa region, both founded at the end of the fourth century BCE in the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great. Both Early Christianity and Early Rabbinical Judaism were far less 'orthodox' and less theologically homogeneous than they are today; and both were significantly influenced by Hellenistic religion and borrowed allegories and concepts from Classical Hellenistic philosophy and the works of Greek-speaking Jewish authors of the end of the Second Temple period before the two schools of thought eventually affirmed their respective 'norms' and doctrines, notably by diverging increasingly on key issues such as the status of 'purity laws', the validity of Judeo-Christian messianic beliefs, and, more importantly, the use of Koiné Greek and Latin as liturgical languages replacing Biblical Hebrew. The influence of Hellonistc Jews can be seen even in synagogues using pagan imagery like the image of Medusa at Chorazin in Israel ( 3rd c CE.) The decline of Hellenistic Judaism started in the second century and its causes are still not fully understood. It may be that it was eventually marginalized by, partially absorbed into, or progressively became the Koine-speaking core of Early Christianity centered on Antioch and its traditions, such as the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch.
Jehovah is a name never revealed from God. We know this due to the fact that Jews added vowels from words like: Adonai, Eloah, and Elohim onto the consonantal name of God, YHWH (in Hebrew Yod-Hey-Waw-Hey). This was done to prevent the readers in the synagogues from saying God’s actual name, as the Hebrew words in the Hebrew Scriptures did not have vowels, so when the reader came upon the name of God, and saw the vowels added, he knew to say, “Adonai,” instead of inadvertently trying to pronounce the Name (HaShem). From Eloah, the vowels of e-o-a caused the concoction of YeHoWaH, or Yehovah. This became the Latin Iehovah, and with the letter “J” added to the English alphabet by the 17th century this euphonious name was changed to Jehovah. Jehovah, or Yehovah, has a sinister meaning, as Je-hovah, specifically “hovah”, means ruin, mischief, and calamity (see Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words # 1943). There is a Karaite Jew, who relies on Medieval sources to propagate the false name Yehovah. And yet the Jews have been adding vowels to the Tetragrammaton, the four letters of God’s name [YHWH] since, or before, the 11th century. This practice of the Jews adding vowels to the Tetragrammaton [fancy name for “the four consonant letters” of God’s actual name], which caused yet another variation, the vowels of Elohim. This led to e-o-i added to the Tetragrammaton to make YeHoWiH (see Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words # 3069). Many religious leaders of the church, pastors, teachers, and priests know that Jehovah, or Yehovah, are false names, and yet they will stand by their traditions, and YAHSHUA warned us about them: “He answered and said to them, ‘Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men…’ He said to them, ‘All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition’” (Mark 7:6-9). The vowel point under the Hebrew letter Yod, with the vowel called qamets (a for T), not the vowel sheva (e for :). That is YAH not Yeh. The command to Joseph, was, “...you shall call His name YAHSHUA…” (Matthew 1:21) “Jesus”, is a name never revealed by God. This name came into being through a process of linguistic evolution. Man took it upon themselves to transliterate the common Aramaic name Yeshua to the Greek Iesous. Iesous conformed to the Latin to become Iesus, and this was up to the year 1632 CE. the unrevealed common English name for Christ. After the year 1632, the name of our Lord changed yet again to Jesus. Why does it matter? Because the apostle Peter testified to the Sanhedrin that: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). When the apostle Peter testified in the name of YAHSHUA, the Sanhedrin reacted strongly. “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with YAHSHUA. And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, saying, ‘What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.’ So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of YAHSHUA. But Peter and John answered and said to them, ‘Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard’” (Acts 4:13-20). The name of YAHSHUA: Forbidden! Because the Jews heard “the name which is above every name,” YAH in His name! The apostle Paul on the road to Damascus encountered YAHSHUA, and he asked, “Who are You, Lord?” And in the Hebrew language, the Lord tells him, “I am YAHSHUA…” (see Acts 26:12-15). We know that the apostle Paul heard “the name which is above every name,” YAH, because he wrote this: “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved, and there is no rejecting this name, YAHSHUA! Many have said, “It is not about the name. It is about the Person.” According to the Gospel, this is false. As the Savior said, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God’” (John 3:16-18). You stand condemned, because you have not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God! “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name…” (John 1:12). Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! “If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name,’ Says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart’” (Malachi 2:2).
I am confused. Dr.Nehemia Gordon give a lot of teachings that it is Yehovah instead of Yahweh. He argues beside many arguments of the second temple period, that Gilbert Genebrard in 1699 changed the Name into Yahweh because he wanted the the name of God as Creator passed in?
With all this criteria examined there is only one name that has been preserved in history with manuscript documentation from various sources, that meets the rules of Hebrew Grammar and also the vowel deduction of Kativ Kere and that name is Yahweh. The name Yahweh is not made-up by scholars as we hear from time to time. (See image from Friedrich Delitzsch book Babel and Bible Page 71) These tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh and the Nag Hammadi, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15. Mari Tablets: biblicalarchaeologygraves.blogspot.com/2014/12/bonus-14-mari-tablets.html www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Mari (Akkadian Text: ARM 23, 86:7, ARM 23, 448:13) Other sources: Yahweh’s name found in Ethiopic Manuscript S.R. Driver. Recent Theories on the Origin and Nature of the Tetragrammaton, 1883. Essays in Biblical Archaeology and Criticism. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1885, p20. archive.org/details/studiabiblicaes01oxfogoog/page/20/mode/1up?view=theater
The name Yahweh is found documented in many ancient manuscripts. The Encyclopedia Judaica notes that the true pronunciation of Yahweh’s Name was never lost, being pronounced “Yahweh. There is a reason the name was “never lost” and the Jewish Encyclopedia clarifies this regarding the Samaritans, who were chastised by the Jews for using the true pronunciation Yahweh in the Jerusalem Talmud. “These details indicate that the long-sanctioned dread of uttering the Shem ha-Meforash (the explicit name) was by no means without exceptions, and that the correct pronunciation was not unknown. Abba Saul (2d cent.) condemned the profanation of the Tetragrammaton by classing those “that speak the Name according to its letters” (יהוה) with those who have no part in the future world (Sanh. x. 1); and according to ‘Ab. Zarah 17b, one of the martyrs of Hadrian’s time, Hananiah b. Teradion, was burned at the stake because he so uttered the Name. A Palestinian amora of the third century (Mana the Elder) exemplified the apothegm of Abba Saul (Yer. Sanh. 28b, above) by the statement, “as, for instance, the Samaritans who swear”; he meant thereby that in their oaths the Samaritans pronounce the Tetragrammaton exactly as it is written. According to Theodoret, the Greek Church father, who flourished in the fifth century, they gave it the sound of Ἰαβέ (see Löw, “Gesammelte Schriften,” i. 193). See reference Note: The Samaritans in most instances pronounce bet, vet, waw, pe and fe as a “b”. We often see as an alternative transcription in Greek sources. There was no Greek equivalent of [w], so they used a vowel combination to represent this. “Iaoue” (presumably Ἰαουέ) phonetically Yahweh if the w bears the sound of English: [jɑ-wɛ’].
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry Thank you very much for your response! I really appreciate your effort. I am going to study your answers. In Christ united.
but how can you prove that vav is pronounce supposed to be waw?no hebrew speaker was using waw but instead vav...how can you prove it?if david is dawid?how it is called david?
The V Is modern Hebrew. Not a SINGLE ancient Semitic language uses a V for the 6th letter. Even the languages that evolved from Ancient Hebrew do not use a V for the 6th letter. And concerning David, it is simple they wouldn't have called him David. It would have likely been something like Dah-wed. There is a V, but it is NOT the Waw, it is the Soft Bet. There is a very easy solution here. Call them, and ask. They will explain it.
He wouldn't think anything of such "late" manuscripts. Friedrich Delitzsch translated tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the name Yahweh (Babel and Bible Page 71). So does the Nag Hammadi (2nd century), as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15 in Greek (Yahw). The Jews chastised the Samaritans for using Yahweh in the Talmud see: Yer. Sanh. 28b.
A Gog of Magog Genocide! The syllables Ha-lle-lu-yah or “Halleluyah” were in use by the Muskogee and Algonquin-speaking nations of the east and southeast coast before colonists. There are two independent recorded instances where the word Halleluyah was in use in Native towns that had never encountered Europeans. Thomas Thorowgood(1) in the 1650s recorded Halleluyah and other syllables similar to the Tetragrammaton in use by the Powhatan. One hundred years later, James Adair(2) made the same observations while living for 40 years in Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek towns in the 1700s. Thorowgood had encountered with the Native Tetragrammaton variations. Vocables are a combination of syllables that are themselves compositions of the same core group of syllables; Yah, Weh, Yo, Heh, Wah, Ha, Ho, Hoi. It is interesting however that the names for God between these two geographically separated groups are similar. Yoweh sounds like a variation of Yahweh. Yo-he-wah sounds like a variation of Je-ho-vah. And Muskogee Yah, is analogous to the use of Yah in Hebrew. All three of those vocable sets are names for God in Muskogee and Tsalagi, just as their counterparts in Hebrew are names for God. As for the origin of the word Halleluyah in Native towns beyond the frontier in Adair’s life, in places that had never encountered a European, is history lost to genocide and time.
The name Yahweh is not made-up by scholars as we hear from time to time. (See Friedrich Delitzsch book Babel and Bible Page 71) These tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh and the Nag Hammadi, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15. Mari Tablets: biblicalarchaeologygraves.blogspot.com/2014/12/bonus-14-mari-tablets.html www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Mari (Akkadian Text: ARM 23, 86:7, ARM 23, 448:13) Other sources: Yahweh’s name found in Ethiopic Manuscript S.R. Driver. Recent Theories on the Origin and Nature of the Tetragrammaton, 1883. Essays in Biblical Archaeology and Criticism. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1885, p20. archive.org/details/studiabiblicaes01oxfogoog/page/20/mode/1up?view=theater
Your statement shows apparent lack of understanding of Biblical Hebrew. The waw was not originally pronounced as a bilabial “v” as it is in Tiberian Hebrew. The fact that the waw is frequently used as a mater lectionis for a long u sound would be impossible to explain if it was pronounced v, like the bet rafeh, rather as the semivowel w. Furthermore, there are many Hebrew words where a historical dipthong aw, as evidenced from Semitic cognates, has been reduced to a long vowel, e.g., in hiphil perfect of w-initial verbs hawrid > horid “he brought down”, or in the word yawm > yom “day”, and alternations between a dipthong and a long vowel, e.g.,absolute mawwet vs. construct mot “death.” Such correspondences are only understandable if the phonetic value of the waw was a semivowel.” Aramaic, Ugaritic and later Semitic languages like Arabic, Maltese, and Ge’ez, all use a double “u” comparatively for the 6th letter equivalent. This fact dynamites any possibility that the sixth letter had the sound of a “v” anciently, as these languages all derive from older Semitic languages through Aramaic and as far back as Phoenician, i.e. ancient Hebrew. Dr. Steven E. Fassberg, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard and teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a professor in the Hebrew language department and who headed the University’s Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and has contributed to numerous works such as The Encyclopedia Judaica, stated: “There is no doubt that the original sound was w and not v. Sometime during the history of the Hebrew language there was a shift from w > v in pronunciation, probably already during the Mishnaic Period [70 CE-200 CE]”
hey is where we get our upper case E which is pronounced just like hey (think fonzy) H is a different Hebrew letter (Strong's H2971) - let that marinate ;-)
Heh is a semi-silent H sound in Hebrew unless you see a mapiq, then it is a fully aspirated consonant. The E in english has nothing to do with anything.
A statement made by 19th-century Hebrew scholar Gesenius in his Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures reads: “Those who consider that יְהוָֹה [Ye-ho-wah] was the actual pronunciation [of God’s name] are not altogether without ground on which to defend their opinion. In this way can the abbreviated syllables יְהוֹ [Ye-ho] and יוֹ [Yo], with which many proper names begin, be more satisfactorily explained.” Nevertheless, in the introduction to his translation of The Five Books of Moses, Everett Fox points out: “Both old and new attempts to recover the ‘correct’ pronunciation of the Hebrew name [of God] have not succeeded; neither the sometimes-heard ‘Jehovah’ nor the standard scholarly ‘Yahweh’ can be conclusively proven.” No doubt the scholarly debate will continue. Jews stopped pronouncing the name of the true God before the Masoretes developed the system of vowel pointing. Thus, there is no definitive way to prove which vowels accompanied the consonants YHWH (יהוה).
Gesenius initially accepted the Tetragrammaton with the vowel points from Adonai, but then later retracted his support for this hybrid and was noted within Gesenius Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, “This opinion Gesenius afterward thoroughly retracted,” p. 337. Upon rejecting Yehovah, he supported the pronunciation Yahweh. There are early Greek sources 1-200CE like the Nag Hammadi (which preserved Elohim, Yaw and Yahweh in the text) the Semaritans and also early Church fathers that have preserved the name in Greek. This is the reason the Encyclopedia Judaica makes the claim, the name was never really lost.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry the Samaritans were not Jews but rather were placed to populate the area.... they WERE pagans and worshiped Zeus. They say so themselves when trying to avoid being persecuted stating they are outside people sent to populate the area please don't do to us what you are doing to the Jews based on our proximity.
The Samaritans were using the name before and after the 1st century. the Samaritans, were chastised by the Jews for using the true pronunciation Yahweh in the Jerusalem Talmud in the 2nd century. “These details indicate that the long-sanctioned dread of uttering the Shem ha-Meforash (the explicit name) was by no means without exceptions, and that the correct pronunciation was not unknown. Abba Saul (2d cent.) condemned the profanation of the Tetragrammaton by classing those “that speak the Name according to its letters” (יהוה) with those who have no part in the future world (Sanh. x. 1); and according to ‘Ab. Zarah 17b, one of the martyrs of Hadrian’s time, Hananiah b. Teradion, was burned at the stake because he so uttered the Name. A Palestinian amora of the third century (Mana the Elder) exemplified the apothegm of Abba Saul (Yer. Sanh. 28b, above) by the statement, “as, for instance, the Samaritans who swear”; he meant thereby that in their oaths the Samaritans pronounce the Tetragrammaton exactly as it is written. According to Theodoret, the Greek Church father, who flourished in the fifth century, they gave it the sound of Ἰαβέ (see Löw, “Gesammelte Schriften,” i. 193). See reference. Why would the Jews chastise a people for using Yahweh if the name Yahweh was wrong? The Yehovah crowd has some SERIOUS explaining to do, especially since they blaspheme His name saying it is from Jupiter.
I'm looking through the web to see whether it's a W or V and there's no definite answer. Even the wiki for the letter Waw says its pronounced both W and V with no indication as to when its either a W or a V.
Really? Almost all Hebrew classes and references show this. If you take accredited Hebrew, like we do at YRM you will never see a class that teaches the 6th letter has a "v" sound. Maybe some psudo Hebrew taught within the "messianic movement." We always say, do not go to the Hebrew Roots movement to learn Hebrew, as they are the ones who teach pseudo-Hebrew pushing their doctrines....ironic. Here is the department head of the Hebrew Language department, at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem explaining why the ancient pronunciation is a "w:" “I believe there are many ways to demonstrate that the waw was not originally pronounced as a bilabial ‘v’ as it is in Tiberian Hebrew. The fact that the waw is frequently used as a mater lectionis for a long u sound would be impossible to explain if it was pronounced v, like the bet rafeh, rather as the semivowel w. Furthermore, there are many Hebrew words where a historical dipthong aw, as evidenced from Semitic cognates, has been reduced to a long vowel, e.g., in hiphil perfect of w-initial verbs hawrid > horid ‘he brought down,’ or in the word yawm > yom ‘day.’ and alternations between a dipthong and a long vowel, e.g.,absolute , awwet vs. construct mot ‘death.’ Such correspondences are only understandable if the phonetic value of the waw was a semivowel,” Adina Moshavi, PhD. We also reached out to Steven Fassberg, PhD, professor at the Hebrew University and one of the world’s foremost experts in the Hebrew language and the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel. Regarding the gav-gaw question he replied: “gb (gav) is from the root gbb and gw (gaw) is from the root gww. Both are well attested roots in Semitic.” He continues…“There is no doubt whatsoever that vav was pronounced w in the Hebrew of the First Temple period and in Semitic languages.” Also, look at every semitic cognate, like Aramaic for instance. Every single one use a "W" double U sound for the 6th letter. The bilabial V is in the same class as the 2nd letter, the bet, closed mouth, not an open mouth vowel. Yod, heh, and waw are all semi-vowels (mentioned by Josephus), not consonants. This is the only letter "without the dagesh" that produces this sound in ancient Hebrew, not the waw.
There is no "V" for the 6th letter in Biblical Hebrew. Don't confuse Biblical Hebrew with modern Hebrew that the Jews speak today. Also, how do you get the O and V sound in Yehovah that you just posted with only one waw? Thats impossible. The waw was a vowel according to Josephus not a consenant V. In Biblical Hebrew the bet without the dagesh lene makes the V sound. The tetragrammaton does not contain a Bet. Look at the unchangeable vowel "shureq" to see the pronunciation of the waw anciently. Do we say Shal-V-m for Shalom? ...of course not. “There is no doubt that the original sound was w and not v. Sometime during the history of the Hebrew language there was a shift from w > v in pronunciation, probably already during the Mishnaic Period” Dr. Steven Fassberg, Head of the Hebrew University's Orion Center for the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls
@@maxsavage3998 , correct. Shall we add Jonathan (Yehonatan), Joshua (Yehoshua; Yeshua), Jehoseba (Yehoshabeat; Yehosheba), Jehoram Yehoram), etc. No Yah in any of them. Interesting.
I thought the same thing however after thinking about it I believe he was using the term Yahweh as an epithet. Like he said they did alot of things that were weird and unusual.
The diaspora changed the languages. The Assyrian and Babylonian captives and even the ones sent all through Russia and Europe. The language got mixed up people speak with accents and don’t pronounce words correctly so the language got changed. You have to read the original manuscripts to know for sure. I know a sage, a scholar and teacher who has read them all and I believe him rather than you. Only the TRUE Jewish people can tell us their history and this man has. So The Father’s Personal Name is YeHoVaH (יְהֹוָה). YEHOVAH. Pray and ask Him Himself to tell. If you sincerely ask Him He will tell you.
I think you will find this interesting. www.academia.edu/59960556/Gordon_The_Writing_Erasure_and_Correction_of_the_Tetragrammaton_in_Medieval_Hebrew_Bible_Manuscripts_abstract
Your comment means more than you know. We get rebuked by those who use TH-cam scholars every day and they completely discount modern scholarship, Hebrew grammar, phonology and archaeology. Yahweh bless!
Because the majority says something does not make it true. The source for the pronunciation yahweh is never provided, so where is the evidence to refute yehovah as the incorrect pronunciation.
What on earth is " a lay Rabbi"?!!! I attended an orthodox synagogue for 4 years and not once was the Tetragramaton ever pronounced, always being substituted with Adonai or HaShem.
🤔 So shouldn't the name of our faith be different since the name "Jesus Christ" is wrong hence from the title christian came about. Also what does YRM think about people saying that the name Yashua Hamasiach is Jesus Christ in Hebrew.
We don't use the term Christian, this was coined by the people of Antioch. Christ simply means anointed in Greek. We prefer to use Messianic. Yes, Yahshua Ha mashiach means Yahshua the Messiah in Hebrew. That was His name. The name Jesus is an amalgamation of a bad translation from Y'shua. He was never known by Jesus.
Even if Jesus did not exist they would follow Sun, Moon, and Star Worship! Revelation 17:17 The Roman Empire allowed Christianity but created a Pagan Jesus. Constantine made Christianity the main religion of Rome, and created Constantinople, which became the most powerful city in the world. Historians link the advent of Christianity to Sol Invictus partly because December 25 marked the so-called Feast of the Unconquered Sun before it became officially recognized as the birthday of Christ. The Winter solstice, alternatively called Yule or Sol Invictus, is a pagan celebration Emperor Aurelian established in 272 CE. Aurelian strengthened the position of the Sun god Sol Invictus as the main divinity of the Roman pantheon. He declared Dec. 25 as the birthdate of the “Invincible Sun” and made the day a feast-day. Deuteronomy 4:19 And when you raise your eyes to the heavens and see the sun and the moon and the stars-all the army of the heavens-do not get seduced and bow down to them and serve them. Jehovah your God has given them to all the peoples under the whole heavens.
Because of the third commandment for starters, "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your Elohim in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain" (Exodus 20:7 or perhaps Acts 2:21: "And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of Yahweh shall be saved." The very name of the Messiah means Yahweh is Salvation "Yahshua." There are man many scriptures that tell us to call on His name, that's why, because we follow scripture not man's reasoning! Every religion uses the name of their creator except Judaism and Christianity, they simply use the generic "god." Kind of weird don't you think?
But jesus name in Hebrew is Yehoshua meaning God to save or Yehovah to save so if you insist that yaweh is the proper name of god so Yehoshua must be Yahushua?
This video is giving a deceptive fable to come up with Yahweh. Vowels in Hebrew are represented by marks called points. Hebraist Dr. Nehemia Gordon did extensive research into ancient Hebrew texts and found that the vowel points for the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) always have been sheva, holem, and kamatz. Thus, the English pronunciation of the pointed Tetragrammaton (YHVH) can only be Jehovah. He concluded that the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) pronunciation cannot be Yahweh. Indeed, Dr. Gordon determined that the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) pronunciation in Hebrew has always been Yehovah (in English, it would be pronounced Jehovah). Dr. Gordon uncovered more than 1.000 ancient Hebrew Bible manuscripts containing the vowel points that render the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) in Hebrew as Yehovah; in English it would be pronounced Jehovah. Yahweh is a heathen tribal god. Edward Hendrie Author of "HOAX of Biblical Proportions"
"Hebraist Dr. Nehemia Gordon did extensive research into ancient Hebrew texts and found that the vowel points for the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) always have been sheva, holem, and kamatz." Extensive research? Then explain why we also see the vowel points for Elohim in the text: shewa, holem, hiriq. like in Judges 16:28 in the Masoretic text? The same rules apply, just like they apply for the vowels for Adonai which is where yehovah comes from. Isn't it interesting that we see a missing holem in Genesis 15:2... just like we see with the "case for the "full vowels by Gordon." Or removing the hateph seghol and reverting to a simple shewa in Ezekiel 24:24, following the rules of the gutturals, just like we see with the vowels for Adonai. I'm sure Nehemiah never brought any of this out? Why would he his audience does not know Hebrew. This is elementary Hebrew that doesn't require "extensive research." You might as well use the name Yehivih as it is every bit as valid as Yehovah in every way grammatically because both are simply kativ kere, one uses the vowels for Elohim, one uses the vowels for Adonai. Please explain in Hebrew Grammar? Yahweh's name is found in ancient Cuneiform texts dating to (1750BCE) See Babel and Bible page 71 where the name Yahweh is perfectly preserved 3 times in the text. We have been down this road 100's of times, and we have never gotten an explanation for this a single time. Also, why did he use YHWH in his own Ph.D. paper? Oh, and By the way, his Ph.D. is in Biblical Studies, not the Biblical Hebrew language. So let's not get it confused. There is a massive difference. www.academia.edu/59960556/Gordon_The_Writing_Erasure_and_Correction_of_the_Tetragrammaton_in_Medieval_Hebrew_Bible_Manuscripts_abstract Considering all of this "evidence," I wonder why he would revert to using such an error. Not even Gordon actually believes the nonsense he peddles. He stands in direct opposition to 99% of scholarship, and when push comes to shove, he will side with them so long as it gets him what he wants. in this case, a Ph.D. But if he was to stand on his position of Yehovah being correct, they NEVER would have passed it. The very people who are educating him would call out that error as it has been debunked decades ago. Why else would he abandon YHVH in Favor of YHWH? I'm sure he has a rock-solid explanation as to why he did such a thing. "Dr. Gordon uncovered more than 1.000 ancient Hebrew Bible manuscripts containing the vowel points that render the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) in Hebrew as Yehovah; in English it would be pronounced Jehovah." Dr Gordon's "ancient" Manuscripts are all dated to the 9th century and later. They have found Jars of grain older than his "Ancient" manuscripts. As evidenced in the link to His own Ph.D paper, Gordon is not above deception. He is also called out in MANY places as tampering with his "Evidence". There is an entire video series dedicated to exposing his obvious lies and his willingness to do things like - Misquote sources - Claim "Rabbi's Say xyz" while Leaving out critical details about sources, like the fact that most of the rabbis that he quotes (even then, he alters the quote so heavily they appear to agree with him)" are Kabbalistic. But when taken in their entirety actually disagree with him. - Writes books about a Messiah he himself doesn't accept. th-cam.com/play/PLL4I2Njj12SrsP5T1VyULObxD1ir_TR6i.html The list goes on. We avoid Gordon like the plague as he is not of Messiah, and he has been caught countless times peddling falsehoods to those too ignorant to dispute him. Again, read his Ph.D paper and try to come up with a reason he chose to use YHWH while telling people like you that "there was NEVER a W in Hebrew". Do yourself a favor, reach out to the Hebrew University and and ask them for yourself. Present Gordon's arguments and see what they say. We did.
In Hebrew, Adonai is spelled אֲדֹנָי the ending has the qamets vowel under the nun, which is a long vowel and has the long "a" sound like in father. This is why you typically see the spelling with the "nai" ending. The last "i" has the y sound for the yod.
I understood him to say that Adonai is a plural possessive (the "majestic plural like Elohim) which otherwise, as you said, would be Adoni, singular possessive.
No, they won’t, but the point is, that those who are doing wrong, will never like being corrected. No one likes being corrected, but it’s what you do after, that makes the difference. JW’s will never change as a group. But individuals who have earnest hearts will change and Yahweh will guide them to truth, like He has for our family!
No one today knows exactly how God’s name was pronounced in ancient Hebrew. Significantly, however, God’s personal name appears in the text of the Bible some 7,000 times. Jesus made God’s name manifest when on earth, and he instructed his disciples to pray for the sanctification of that name. (Matthew 6:9; John 17:6) Thus, one thing is certain-the use of God’s name is of utmost importance to Christian faith. Why, then, is the original pronunciation of that name uncertain today? A statement made by 19th-century Hebrew scholar Gesenius in his Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures states: “Those who consider that יְהוָֹה [Ye-ho-wah] was the actual pronunciation [of God’s name] are not altogether without ground on which to defend their opinion. In this way can the abbreviated syllables יְהוֹ [Ye-ho] and יוֹ [Yo], with which many proper names begin, be more satisfactorily explained.” Nevertheless, in the introduction to his translation of The Five Books of Moses, Everett Fox points out: “Both old and new attempts to recover the ‘correct’ pronunciation of the Hebrew name [of God] have not succeeded; neither the sometimes-heard ‘Jehovah’ nor the standard scholarly ‘Yahweh’ can be conclusively proven.” No doubt the scholarly debate will continue. Jews stopped pronouncing the name of the true God before the Masoretes developed the system of vowel pointing. Thus, there is no definitive way to prove which vowels accompanied the consonants YHWH (יהוה).
On the contrary it’s not agreed this is the Name of “God” because “God” was a late medieval adoption by the church. It’s agreed this is the Name of the Elohim but there’s no agreement anyone called “God” is involved. Infact, not only is that not agreed but the detail is over all ignored entirely.
Actually no, not at all. The name Yahweh has been found in antiquity. Friedrich Delitzsch (book Babel and Bible Page 71) translated tablets from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform, which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the pronunciation Yahweh. The Nag Hammadi, 2nd Century also uses the name Yahweh in Greek, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15, 3 parts of the tetragrammaton (short form) YAHW written in Greek. The Samaritans also preserved the name Yahweh and were chastised by the Jews for using it, see the Talmud reference: Yer. Sanh. 28b. Jehovah is a nonsensical name invented by early Christians who did not understand the concept of Ketiv Kere. The Jewish encyclopedia has a write up on this if you look up "Jehovah." The name Yahweh is easily proven if you just know where to look. I urge you to look up the references above for yourself. The truth does not hide if you simply follow it.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry don't agree we are dealing with semantics. Dont you think the Grand Creator of the Universe wouldnt want his name known? From the Almighty who names even all the quadrillions of stars and planets by name doesnt have a name? Jesus or Yehoshuah even made Gods name known yet the later 1rst and 2nd century fake christians and jews hid and had his name removed or hidden becauae of some kind of dark mentality or tradition. Jehovah Yawheh Yehovah Yahowah are pretty good for me and close enough. Fyi there is a first century Greek inscription written on stone of Gods name in Greek IAIO. Gods name should be translatable in any language because he Originated languages. So to say you cannot translate it is really nonsense.. In spanish Iehova in Italian its Geova. Just like Yehoshua Yoseph Yeremiah are hebrew names that are translated with Js. Jehovah never said you cannot translate His Holy name into other languages. To say that is going beyond Yawhehs word in the Torah and Greek scriptures. There is even hieroglyphics of Gods name.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry , You wrote: "Friedrich Delitzsch (book Babel and Bible Page 71) translated tablets from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform, which does contain vowels." How is this so? What does it say? How does this "verifies the pronunciation Yahweh? Any reference we can see? Please, thank you.
900AD is not ancient by any who takes Israel's history seriously. They have found jars of grain that predate these "Ancient" manuscripts in Jericho. The name Yahweh is not made-up by scholars as we hear from time to time. (See image from Friedrich Delitzsch book Babel and Bible Page 71) These tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh and the Nag Hammadi, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15. Here is a link to an image of Cuneiform tablets that predate the earliest Yehovah manuscript by about 3300 years that contain Yahweh's name exactly: i0.wp.com/yrm.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cuneiform-yahweh-assyrian.jpg?resize=768%2C1258&ssl=1
What is so hilarious is this guy can't correctly pronounce the sacred name of God of the jews. There isn't a "W" in the Hebrew alphabet. So I'm not going to listen to this guy.
What's REALLY hilarious, every single Biblical Hebrew class will teach the W as ancient. Modern Hebrew is the ONLY Semitic language with a V sound for the 6th letter. The W is without doubt ancient. We challenge you to look it up and study it for yourself. This is common knowledge that is being ignored to push a narrative. Simply having modern Hebrew in your username doesn't make you an expert in Biblical Hebrew. Here is a quote from Dr. Steven Fassberg, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard and teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a professor in the Hebrew language department, also confirms the use of the waw and the erroneous nature of Yehovah. He states, “The pronunciation you mentioned [i.e., Yehovah] is a mistake. The Hebrew consonantal text is YHWH and no one really knows how that was pronounced in Old Testament times. At a later date (the latter half of the 2nd millennium CE) Masoretes added vowel signs to the consonantal text. Whenever the Tetragrammaton was written, they added the vowel signs of the word ‘Adonay,’ which means ‘My Lord’ - there was a taboo on pronouncing the Divine name and one was supposed to read the word ‘Adonay - my Lord.’ Much later some started reading the vowel signs together with YHWH and came up with the nonsensical word Jehovah. I am eager to hear you refute His point. We get this a lot, people saying "you are wrong" and when they are challenged to explain, they tuck their tails between their legs and just drop a link to another video. You come onto our video and claim we are wrong, we take the time to respond, you need to take the time to explain yourself and show the world the correct answer to these questions. Simply posting a comment about how wrong someone is is not helpful to anyone seeking truth.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry I'll retract my first comment and I will concede to your position. ONLY if you can give me the accurate and the literal definition of the Biblical Hebrew word בראשית. If you cannot do this. Then you have to retract your statement and concede to my view that the biblical hebrew word vav is enunciated as a "v" and not a "w".
Your obvious blatent ignorance is exactly the reason we get people using this nonsensical name Yehovah in the first place. Geeeze Go take a biblical Hebrew class before making dumb comments.
“…there are many ways to demonstrate that the waw was not originally pronounced as a labiodental “v” as it is in Tiberian Hebrew. The fact that the waw is frequently used as a mater lectionis for a long u sound would be impossible to explain if it was pronounced v, like the bet rafeh, rather as the semivowel w. Furthermore, there are many Hebrew words where a historical diphthong aw, as evidenced from Semitic cognates, has been reduced to a long vowel, e.g., in hiphil perfect of w-initial verbs hawrid > horid “he brought down”, or in the word yawm > yom [יוֹם] “day”, and alternations between a diphthong and a long vowel, e.g., absolute mawwet vs. construct mot “death.” Such correspondences are only understandable if the phonetic value of the waw was a semivowel.” Professor Adina Moshavi, Ph.D. Semitic languages and Literature Biblical Hebrew syntax, Biblical Hebrew pragmatics Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew Language Department
J is not in Hebrew; V is not in Biblical Hebrew. YHWH is three-syllable word, to be transcribe as YeHoWah, not YeHoVah, nor as 2-syllable word Yahweh which was invented by Heinrich Wilhelm Gesenius 1869. If the vowel pointing of Adonai is used, it would Yahuah with 'W' for 'double u'.
You are correct regarding the yod having the sound of "y" but incorrect on your statement "the v is not in Biblical Hebrew." The second letter "bet" without the dagesh lene has the soft sound of "v." In contrast, the 6th letter "waw" only contains the "w" sound anciently, which is a weak letter, not the harsh "uuu" you are trying to interject. In fact, the yod, heh and waw are all weak letters in Biblical Hebrew and can be used as consonants and vowels (see Hebrew matres lectionis). The name Yahweh goes back much farther than William Gesenius. To say Gesinius invented the name is ridiculous. We can find the name Yahweh in Greek in the Nag Hammadi letters from about 100CE, written along side Elohim in Koine Greek. In fact the name Yahweh goes back anciently much much farther than that however. Friedrich Delitzsch in His book Babel and Bible, Page 71 translates tablets from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform (which does contain vowels). This also verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh, which is known to this very day by the Samaritans. The Samaritan High Priest in Israel confirms the name Yahweh, we have asked him personally. Your final statement is also incorrect, the vowels for Adonai, (Shewa, Holem, Qamets) are: ee- oo- ah Yeh-oo-ah, not Ya-who-ah. The qamets vowel is not used but an initial shewa "ee." Also, the holem has the sound of an "oo" like in role. The Shureq vowel that has the sound of "u" like in ruler is not used here, neither is the kibbutz. Yahuah is an impossibility from Biblical Hebrew Grammar in regards to using deduction from the word Judah, (YeHudah) which is what the Yahuah crowd uses to fabricate this name. A Hebrew consonant always has to have a vowel with it, not two vowels in a row "uu-ahh," which is created by removing the dalet and violates Biblical Hebrew grammar. Please see a much more detailed understanding of this here: yrm.org/yahuah-or-yahweh/
How funny to consult a scholar with a Reformed denominational background to explain the topic out of context. Nehemia Gordon's credentials are proven to be more trustworthy than this chap since he worked extensively with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Did Dr William Barrick do the same? Hardly.
@@elijah0127 Nehemia doesn't even believe in the Messiah, so lets not get into "Backgrounds" here. By scripture, that alone should be enough for us to discount everything he says. (1 John 2:22) "Nehemia Gordon's credentials are proven to be more trustworthy than this chap since he worked extensively with the Dead Sea Scrolls." Actually, his "extensive work" with the DSS was rechecking fragments that were already checked in a college classroom setting. He says so in his own podcast. www.nehemiaswall.com/bible-dead-sea-scrolls (around 1:15 seconds in) He worked alongside Emanuel Tov as an assistant. To say he worked "Extensively" with the Dead Sea Scrolls is simply untrue. He says so himself. How does this nonsense spread? Who is telling you this information? At some point we have to ask, why is no one calling out this nonsense? People come out of the woodwork to cheer him on as a scholar of the DSS when they clearly have no idea who he is and what he has done (as we have just demonstrated). They follow this guy around and believe he is the pre-eminent scholar on all things Hebrew and to question him is nigh on blasphemy. Well, we are here to tell you, prove all things; because not everything he teaches is truth, and that is provable. We have taken Biblical Hebrew classes for years because we got tired of the shady information from these people. We wanted to be able to prove these things for ourselves and when we started, it became crystal clear; what Gordon was teaching was not factual or honest. I pray you continue your research and study.
If it's credentials you want then look no farther that the Preeminent Hebrew Scholar Dr. Steven Fassberg of the Hebrew University. He was the Department Head of the Hebrew Language Department and of the Orion center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here is what he said when we posed the question about Jehovah: “The pronunciation you mentioned [i.e., Yehovah] is a mistake. The Hebrew consonantal text is YHWH and no one really knows how that was pronounced in Old Testament times. At a later date (the latter half of the 2nd millennium CE) Masoretes added vowel signs to the consonantal text. Whenever the Tetragrammaton was written, they added the vowel signs of the word ‘Adonay,’ which means ‘My Lord’ - there was a taboo on pronouncing the Divine name and one was supposed to read the word ‘Adonay - my Lord.’ Much later some started reading the vowel signs together with YHWH and came up with the nonsensical word Jehovah. “There is no doubt that the original sound was w and not v. Sometime during the history of the Hebrew language there was a shift from w > v in pronunciation, probably already during the Mishnaic Period” (email correspondence). I'm sure, however, even though Nehemiah can't stand in this man's footsteps academically you will discount what he has to say. This is typical of those who push this hybrid false name,
The calculation of Ya*weh is 666. The English Gematria for YHWH + Beast = 666… the WEY is 216=6x6x6… the name Ya*weh is literally 666 because there 6 letter, the replace V 6th place in Hebrew alphabetical and the English vowels ‘a’ is 1 ‘e’ is 5 a+e =6
Gematria comes from Kabbalist mysticism. It should be avoided by any and all believers. We stand firmly against this wickedness. It will have no part in this assembly. Deut 18:10-12 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, 11casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is detestable to Yahweh. And because of these detestable things, Yahweh, your Elohim, is driving out the nations before you. Instead of using Kabbalism to blaspheme the Name of the Almighty, perhaps you should drop the nonsense, repent, read the scriptures, and learn the actual truth. I've known people who get wrapped up in Gematria, which has cost them everything. Family, money, friends, and even their acceptance of Messiah. It is wicked and leads people to destruction.
The 3rd commandment the Hebrew word "nawsaw" is used it can mean take but can also mean bring..What is implied here is that we are not to make His name vain (worthless) The name of the most high was taken out of the mouth of the Jew because of their willful disobedience, prior to going into Babylonian captivity. Even though YHWH sent His prophets to tell them to clean up their act. The Jewish people hide his name, so also do the Christian pastors. There is nothing new under the sun. Even today Christians/Jacobites are told to clean up their act, but I get the same rebellious attitude from them as they gave to JerimiYAH and His other prophets. Our nation (US) is falling, but because of their holier than thou attitude, they have become Laodicean. Read Deuteronomy Ch. 32, and you will see what is to become of you..By the way mister speaker He is MESSIAH, not a christ
You are the first person I have seen comment on the common misnomer, "Christ." Why a misnomer? Because this title, which has become a Name, is carried into modern languages without translation. Why doesn't our Bible read "Jesus, the Anointed" instead of "Jesus Christ"? Because by the time the Bible was translated, the Hebrew Messiah/Anointed concept had long been subsumed by the Greek/Roman man-god concept attached to the Name "Christos," Greek for "Anointed." Abandon the name "Christ" and use instead "Jesus," with or without amplifications such as "our Lord," "Our Redeemer," or "Messiah Jesus" and see how your thinking changes!
How so? In light of this video and the points made by Dr. Barrick, what points has Gordon made that shine any kind of light on the subject? What is factually incorrect by Dr. Barrick? Is it Gordon trying to pawn off late medieval manuscripts and imagery that somehow have you convinced? Is it his own made-up Hebrew where the "v" is now an authentic pronunciation for the 6th letter which flies in the face of every Biblical Hebrew class taught at the Hebrew University? Is it the idea that a scribe accidentally slipped in a holem in the Allepo Codex by mistake that Gordon miraculously found on the date of 911 as the planes hit the WTC (talk about sensationalism)? Or maybe its when he changed his narrative that the hidden holem (full vowels) are now everywhere (2000 manuscripts) which we can only assume is now NOT an error made by a scribe? Maybe that contradiction convinced you? Let me speak frankly ...this Yehovah narrative is a fraud and is pushed by shysters to sell books and videos. Don't buy into this nonsense and noise and please, please don't send me a link to a Gordon video, I have seen all his unscholarly nonsense. People keep sending us links to the very nonsense we have already disproved. It seems people watch these TH-cam videos and are convinced because of a lack of Hebrew knowledge. They want Nehemiah to be their Hebrew Scholar rather than learn the language themselves. Sadly this cult following perpetuates this ignorance. If you disagree with this video go ahead and explain your points. Lets talk Hebrew, we are students of the language.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry I guess that touched a nerve, eh? I was actually impressed by the fact that being of a rabbinic family of note, he explained how the rabbis would say the name once a year. I have studied Hebrew for a number of years, but I am not particularly good at it. So it would be pointless to discourse at that level. I have, however, always been taught by my Hebrew teacher that the 6th letter is "vav". I don't believe that the actual pronunciation is all that important in any case. It is the desire to say His name that shows where your heart is. On His return He will, no doubt, tell us many things and answer all our questions. Shalom
@cornelkittell9926 "I don't believe that the actual pronunciation is all that important in any case." yet, here you are. Who is your Hebrew teacher? We have never heard a single Accredited Biblical Hebrew scholar say the 6th letter is a V. You didn't touch a nerve, in fact you didn't "touch" on single thing I asked. This is typical of the Yehovah crowd. We submit actual scholarly evidence and ask for the same in return and instead we get "Must have touched a nerve huh?" or "it doesn't REALLY matter how you say his name" We have had this argument a millions times. and it IS an argument because we are NEVER presented with anything substantial to debate. We have reached out to every single Hebrew expert we can find and none of them agree with the ancient V. Here is one of MANY we have documented. Nehemia seems to refuse to submit his theories to academia for study and reproof. SO, we have been submitting his arguments and these are the responses we get: “…there are many ways to demonstrate that the waw was not originally pronounced as a labiodental "v" as it is in Tiberian Hebrew. The fact that the waw is frequently used as a mater lectionis for a long u sound would be impossible to explain if it was pronounced v, like the bet rafeh, rather as the semivowel w. Furthermore, there are many Hebrew words where a historical dipthong aw, as evidenced from Semitic cognates, has been reduced to a long vowel, e.g., in hiphil perfect of w-initial verbs hawrid > horid "he brought down", or in the word yawm > yom "day", and alternations between a dipthong and a long vowel, e.g., absolute mawwet vs. construct mot "death". Such correspondences are only understandable if the phonetic value of the waw was a semivowel. Professor Adina Moshavi, Ph.D. Semitic languages and Literature Biblical Hebrew syntax, Biblical Hebrew pragmatics Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew Language Department Even the VERY VIDEO you are commenting on is of an actual Professor who has had all of his theories tried and tested and proven, yet all we hear is "Nehemia Gordon (Fill in the blank)" It is taxing having to do the leg work for a "scholar" who refuses to submit his studies for peer review and scrutiny. Instead, he spends his time knocking around on a few TH-cam channels speaking to people who have no firm grasp of the Hebrew language. And we are left putting out the fires people create with all this nonsense being spewed.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry What really matters is that is doesn't matter. No one knows for sure as this time and He will tell us what we need to know when He returns. I think there is too much focus and thus strife among brothers over this. Shalom
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry Greetings. I have been doing some research concerning the Tetragrammaton. What I can't quite wrap my head around is why there are some who reject the name Jehovah. Isn't Yahweh the name that is typically spoken by those whose native tongue is Hebrew, whereas Jehovah is the name of God that is employed by English speakers? I ask because I have an open mind, and I would like to have my confusion dispelled. I would be enormously grateful for your insight. Perhaps you can point me in the direction of some credible sources?
There is a reason he said to ignore the vowels. Because the vowels on the Tetragrammaton were not written to be pronounced. They were written as a sign for the reader to read something else, in this case. Adonai. This is Kativ-Kere Call up the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and ask them yourself if you don't believe Dr Barrick. Here is all the contact info you need to reach out to them: en.hebrew-language.huji.ac.il/
For me, the name of the True God is Jesus or Yesus or Iesoes or Yahshu or Yeshu... John 17:6 I have manifested your name to the men which you gave me out of the world: your they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept your word. John 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are. John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. John 17:26 And I have declared to them your name, and will declare it: that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them. The Son of man only preach one name "JESUS". And Paul wrote: Php 2:9 Why God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. So the real question is who the true name of God. JESUS or YAHWEH? Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Christian got baptized in the name of JESUS CHRIST ....not YAHWEH or Yehowah or Yahuah or Jehovah. If your God is Allah then you got baptize in the name of Allah... If your God is Jesus then you got baptize in the name of Jesus. If your God is Yahweh then you got baptize in the name of Yahweh. Is there any other name in 4 gospel, that you can be saved?
"If your God is Allah then you got baptize in the name of Allah... If your God is Jesus then you got baptize in the name of Jesus. If your God is Yahweh then you got baptize in the name of Yahweh." This is an untrue statement. Yahshua Messiah is not our "God" but we baptize in his name. There is no other name given among men by which men can be saved, we agree. Yahweh is the Father and Yahshua is the son, we are baptized into the name of the son. yrm.org/if-you-seek-baptism/
Can you prove that Yahweh is real creator? Me I can prove you that YeHoVaH is the real creator To prove it is to have a contest Call you Yahweh and I will call YeHoVaH And let's see who will answer Exodus 3:13-14 I am who I am He was, He is He will be Infinite or leolam or forever Question is where is FOREVER in the Word Yahweh now All that you got were all fruit of your human understanding That is why I'm challenging you to have a contest To prove what you have taught, cause if you can not prove Your charged is the 9th commandments You can gather all people whom you know that your Yahweh listen whey they call Him. Even if you all agreed together are enough It should be proven and tested Just like what Moses and Elijah did
You are part of the deception in these last days to hide his true name. I would repent! I have called on the name Yahweh for my entire life. He has answered many prayers and done amazing things. Yes, He is the creator and YES His name is Yahweh not the made up Catholic invention by the Pope's confessor: ""Jehovah" is generally held to have been the invention of Pope Leo X.'s confessor, Peter Galatin ("De Arcanis Catholicæ Veritatis," 1518, folio xliii.), A mispronunciation (introduced by Christian theologians, but almost entirely disregarded by the Jews) of the Hebrew "Yhwh," the (ineffable) name of G-d (the Tetragrammaton or "Shem ha-Meforash"). This pronunciation is grammatically impossible; it arose through pronouncing the vowels of the "ḳere" (marginal reading of the Masorites: = "Adonay") -Encyclopedia Judaica Here is some actual factual proof for the name Yahweh: (See Friedrich Delitzsch book Babel and Bible Page 71 for a translation that predates anything Gordon can drum up by thousands of years) These tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh and the Nag Hammadi, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15. See the image of the Cuneiform with Yahweh: yrm.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cuneiform-yahweh-assyrian-768x1258.jpg Mari Tablets: biblicalarchaeologygraves.blogspot.com/2014/12/bonus-14-mari-tablets.html www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Mari (Akkadian Text: ARM 23, 86:7, ARM 23, 448:13) Other sources: Yahweh’s name found in Ethiopic Manuscript S.R. Driver. Recent Theories on the Origin and Nature of the Tetragrammaton, 1883. Essays in Biblical Archaeology and Criticism. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1885, p20. archive.org/details/studiabiblicaes01oxfogoog/page/20/mode/1up?view=theater
With all this criteria examined there is only one name that has been preserved in history with manuscript documentation from various sources, that meets the rules of Hebrew Grammar and also the vowel deduction of Kativ Kere and that name is Yahweh. The name Yahweh is not made-up by scholars as we hear from time to time. (See image from Friedrich Delitzsch book Babel and Bible Page 71) These tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh and the Nag Hammadi, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15. Mari Tablets: biblicalarchaeologygraves.blogspot.com/2014/12/bonus-14-mari-tablets.html www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Mari (Akkadian Text: ARM 23, 86:7, ARM 23, 448:13) Other sources: Yahweh’s name found in Ethiopic Manuscript S.R. Driver. Recent Theories on the Origin and Nature of the Tetragrammaton, 1883. Essays in Biblical Archaeology and Criticism. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1885, p20. archive.org/details/studiabiblicaes01oxfogoog/page/20/mode/1up?view=theater
The Encyclopedia Judaica notes that the true pronunciation of Yahweh’s Name was never lost, being pronounced “Yahweh. There is a reason the name was “never lost” and the Jewish Encyclopedia clarifies this regarding the Samaritans, who were chastised by the Jews for using the true pronunciation Yahweh in the Jerusalem Talmud. “These details indicate that the long-sanctioned dread of uttering the Shem ha-Meforash (the explicit name) was by no means without exceptions, and that the correct pronunciation was not unknown. Abba Saul (2d cent.) condemned the profanation of the Tetragrammaton by classing those “that speak the Name according to its letters” (יהוה) with those who have no part in the future world (Sanh. x. 1); and according to ‘Ab. Zarah 17b, one of the martyrs of Hadrian’s time, Hananiah b. Teradion, was burned at the stake because he so uttered the Name. A Palestinian amora of the third century (Mana the Elder) exemplified the apothegm of Abba Saul (Yer. Sanh. 28b, above) by the statement, “as, for instance, the Samaritans who swear”; he meant thereby that in their oaths the Samaritans pronounce the Tetragrammaton exactly as it is written. According to Theodoret, the Greek Church father, who flourished in the fifth century, they gave it the sound of Ἰαβέ (see Löw, “Gesammelte Schriften,” i. 193). See reference Note: The Samaritans in most instances pronounce bet, vet, waw, pe and fe as a “b”. We often see as an alternative transcription in Greek sources. There was no Greek equivalent of [w], so they used a vowel combination to represent this. “Iaoue” (presumably Ἰαουέ) phonetically Yahweh if the w bears the sound of English: [jɑ-wɛ’].
The Yehovah deception is the reinventing of a misnomer. Jehovah is a euphonious name. Yehovah or Jehovah are hybrid counterfeit names for God. “In the early Middle Ages, when the consonantal text of the Bible was supplied with vowel points to facilitate its correct traditional reading, the vowel points for Adonai with the variation - a sheva (short ‘e’) with the first Yod [Y] of YHWH instead of the hataf-patah (short ‘a’) under the aleph of Adonai - was used for YHWH, thus producing the form YeHoWaH. When Christian scholars of Europe first began to study Hebrew they did not understand what this meant, and they introduced the hybrid name ‘Iehovah’, later ‘Jehovah’” (Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 7, p. 680). “Jehovah…What has been said explains…the consonants of Jehovah are always accompanied in the Hebrew text by the vowels of Adonai except in the cases in which Adonai stands in apposition to YHWH [the Tetragrammaton]: in these cases, the vowels of Elohim [or Eloah] are substituted. The use of a simple shewa (Hebrew vowel for ‘e’) in the first syllable of Jehovah, instead of the compound shewa in the corresponding syllable of Adonai and Elohim [0r Eloah], is required by the rules of Hebrew grammar governing the use of Shewa” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. VIII, p. 329). “The reading ‘Jehovah’ can be traced to the early Middle Ages and until lately was said to have been invented by Peter Gallatin [1518], confessor to Pope Leo X. Recent writers, however, trace it to an earlier date; it is found in Raymond Martini’s ‘Pugeo Fidei’ [1270]” (Encyclopedia Americana, Vol. 16, p. 8). Apparently, Peter Gallatin’s source for the erroneous name Jehovah was the book by Raymond Martini, ‘Pugeo Fidei’, in which Peter plagiarized. While studying the Hebrew Scriptures, the Dominican scholar monk Raymond Martini noticed the vowel points on the Tetragrammaton, the four consonant letters that make up the name of God, YHWH. He did not know of the Jewish practice of adding vowels from another Hebrew word to remind the readers in the synagogues not to say the name [HaShem] but to say, “Adonai,” instead. The first letter of God’s revealed name is Y, which corresponds to the Hebrew letter Yod. The second letter is a vowel of ‘a’, not ‘e’, called Qamets in Hebrew. The third letter is ‘H’, and corresponds to the Hebrew letter ‘H’, which spells YAH, and this means, “I AM.” Halleluyah means “Praise YAH!” The first syllable of God’s revealed name is YAH. “The saying of God, [‘HaYAH Ashar HaYAH’] ‘I AM Who I AM’ is surely connected with His name…YAH (Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, p. 743, 1967). The Jewish practice of adding vowels points to the Tetragrammaton (the four consonant letters of God’s Actual name YHWH) into the Hebrew Bible vowels borrowed from other words, such as Adonai, which caused YAHWAIH, and later modified to Yahweh. The vowels of Eloah added to YHVH caused the false name Yehovah, or Jehovah. The vowels of Elohim caused Yehovih (see Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words #3069). Je-hovah, as with hovah means ruin, mischief, and calamity (see Strong’s #1942, #1943). All these false and idolatrous names: Yehovih, Yehovah, and Jehovah are counterfeits. The essential name of salvation is YAH according to the Prophet, “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV). "I AM" is YAH, and “this is the name which is above every name.” Christ told the people that He is YAH (John 8:58). Moses asked God for His name, and He said, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH”, that is “I AM Who I AM”, and “I AM” is the name “YAH” (Exodus 3:14). We should know His revealed name YAH, and Praise YAH, and rightly so, “Halleluyah!” Language of any kind conforms to the revelation of God, not God’s revelation conforming to languages. The Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus was confronted by the Lord, and he asked, “Who are You Lord,” and the LORD answered in Hebrew, “I am YAHSHUA…” (Acts 26:12-15). Our Lord and Savior has “the name which is above every name.” The Apostle Paul gives testimony to that very fact: “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA, every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every tongue, and language, is to know this only revealed name for our very salvation, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). How do we know that we know the Lord? Answer: When we hold to His revelations and commandments, or if not, we shall be cast out as being of lawlessness. The Lord said, in Matthew 7:21-23, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” This will be the excuse of many who justify the counterfeit name of Jesus! What happens if I reject the name YAHSHUA for the counterfeit name Jesus? “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. ‘He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God’” (John 3:16-18). Answer: If you do not believe in the name YAHSHUA, the name of the only begotten Son of God, you will stand condemned! Please, please, repent and believe in the name of our only Lord and Savior YAHSHUA! Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! To the Glory of God our Father. Amen.
TOP 10 REASONS
why the Creator’s Name is not
‘YEHOVAH’
Reason 1:
The Masoretic scribes meticulously captured 8 clear technical proofs in their Hebrew Bible manuscripts, proving that the vowels ‘Shᵉwa Cholem Qamets,’ on the Name are the vowels of Adonai. Together, these 8 proofs occur more than 1100 times in the Hebrew Old Testament.
see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video6-yhwh, and www.HebrewGospels.com/video-7-yhwh
Reason 2:
Most people who insist that the Name is ‘Yehovah’ do so based on the erroneous assertion that Nehemia Gordon is a trustworthy, honest Karaite Jew who teaches the truth.
see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video-8-yhwh
Reason 3:
The pronunciation ‘Yehovah’ has no Hebrew grammatical explanation. Nehemia Gordon, who is repeatedly portrayed as a “Hebrew scholar” is so desperate to explain the etymology of ‘Yehovah’ that he reads and writes Hebrew in the wrong direction!
see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video1-yhwh
Reason 4:
The pronunciation ‘Yehovah’ never was a secret. Nehemia Gordon did not discover this
pronunciation, nor the ‘missing vowel’ on the Name, so there is nothing to be excited about.
see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video2-yhwh
Reason 5:
Contrary to the claims of Nehemia Gordon, the missing ‘Cholem’ on the Name just confirms that dummy vowels were placed on the name, both in the standard Masoretic manuscripts as well as the Aleppo Codex. For example, in the Aleppo Codex the ‘Cholem’ is usually missing on Adonai, and thus the missing ‘Cholem’ just confirms that Adonai’s vowels were placed on the Name יהוה .
see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video5-yhwh
Reason 6:
The “10 Rabbis” (actually 16) whom Nehemia Gordon quotes in an attempt to prove that ‘Yehovah’ is the original Name, followed the kabbalistic ‘bible’ called the Zohar (a fraudulent, blasphemous, occult book) - and / or a tradition based on this book. This tradition holds to multiple erroneous sacred names, and does not give the original pronunciation. Some of these Rabbis even articulate that the vowels of Adonai were placed on the Name.
see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video-9-yhwh, and www.HebrewGospels.com/video-10-yhwh
Reason 7:
It is common knowledge that the Name יהוה was read (pronounced) as Adonai and Elohim. In such ‘ketiv-qere’ situations the scribes never put the original vowels on the word in question. The Masoretic scribes always pointed the Name with the dummy vowels intended to be read (either from Adonai or Elohim) which, if ignorantly read with the consonants, would yield the two gibberish names “Yehovah” and “Yehovih” - not one original name.
see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video3-yhwh, and www.HebrewGospels.com/video4-yhwh
Reason 8:
Contrary to the claims of Nehemia Gordon, the best Hebrew Bible manuscripts prove that the vowel points ‘Shᵉwa Cholem Qamets’ are the grammatically correct vowels to be placed on the Name for reading “Adonai” instead of the Name itself!
see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video4-yhwh
Reason 9:
Nehemia Gordon convinces his unwitting followers of thousands of authentic Hebrew Bible manuscripts that supposedly prove in ‘black and white’ that Yehovah is the original, Hebrew pronunciation of the Name. However, he has not shown even one Hebrew Bible manuscript in which the Masoretic scribes indicated with their grammar and pointings that the original Name is ‘Yehovah.’ This also being the case for Nehemia’s “B52 Bomber” manuscript.
see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video6-yhwh, and www.HebrewGospels.com/video-7-yhwh
Reason 10:
Nehemia Gordon’s supposed vowel rhyme of “Yahavah, Ahavah, and Yehovah” in John chapter 17 is completely fabricated and does not exist!
see: www.HebrewGospels.com/video-8-yhwh
For an in-depth explanation and evidence for the above claims, please visit:
www.HEBREWGOSPELS.com/yhwh
Finally a video relating to the name Yahweh vs. Yehovah with actual academic scholarship using real Biblical Hebrew grammar.
Shalom everyone
Shalom!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. About 5 yrs ago, the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) spoke to me about
"The Name of God". I went looking and ran into so much confusion that I gave up. Yet longing to know
God's Name had continued to stir up within my heart. There is something so special in knowing the
Father's Name, for He is our/my Father. When I read Paul's letter to the Church in Philippi 3, I hear him say
:"that I may know Him". To know in this verse implies a deep, intimate knowing of the Anointed One; and
to do that means knowing His character, His heart and His Name! God is not just the Creator and Giver of
Life, but my Father/Abba, and the Shepherd of my soul, and to know Him is to yield myself completely to
Him without reservation or doubt. In my prayer book I write Baruch HaShem. Now to finally settle that
HaShem is Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the God and Father of my Beloved
Yeshua, the Father of Glory!
Amen!
All Thanks And Praise Belong To Yah; Blessed Be He And His Holy Name Forever And Ever; Amen And Amen; Hallelu Yah!
HalleluYAH!
HalleluYah!
Dr. Barrick mentions the "Egyptian" Alexandrian Jews @ 1:28. This fulfills Jeremiah's prophecy in Jeremiah 44:26: "But hear the word of Yahweh, all you Jews living in Egypt: ‘I swear by my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that no one from Judah living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name or swear, “As surely as the Sovereign Yahweh lives.” These Jews were known as Hellenistic Jews. As William Barrick points out they were the Jews responsible for removing the name Yahweh from use which Jeremiah prophesied. They were also the Jews who wrote the Septuagint.
Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Greek culture. Until the early Muslim conquests of the eastern Mediterranean, the main centers of Hellenistic Judaism were Alexandria in Egypt and Antioch in Syria (now in southern Turkey), the two main Greek urban settlements of the Middle East and North Africa region, both founded at the end of the fourth century BCE in the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Both Early Christianity and Early Rabbinical Judaism were far less 'orthodox' and less theologically homogeneous than they are today; and both were significantly influenced by Hellenistic religion and borrowed allegories and concepts from Classical Hellenistic philosophy and the works of Greek-speaking Jewish authors of the end of the Second Temple period before the two schools of thought eventually affirmed their respective 'norms' and doctrines, notably by diverging increasingly on key issues such as the status of 'purity laws', the validity of Judeo-Christian messianic beliefs, and, more importantly, the use of Koiné Greek and Latin as liturgical languages replacing Biblical Hebrew.
The influence of Hellonistc Jews can be seen even in synagogues using pagan imagery like the image of Medusa at Chorazin in Israel ( 3rd c CE.)
The decline of Hellenistic Judaism started in the second century and its causes are still not fully understood. It may be that it was eventually marginalized by, partially absorbed into, or progressively became the Koine-speaking core of Early Christianity centered on Antioch and its traditions, such as the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch.
Jehovah is a name never revealed from God. We know this due to the fact that Jews added vowels from words like: Adonai, Eloah, and Elohim onto the consonantal name of God, YHWH (in Hebrew Yod-Hey-Waw-Hey). This was done to prevent the readers in the synagogues from saying God’s actual name, as the Hebrew words in the Hebrew Scriptures did not have vowels, so when the reader came upon the name of God, and saw the vowels added, he knew to say, “Adonai,” instead of inadvertently trying to pronounce the Name (HaShem).
From Eloah, the vowels of e-o-a caused the concoction of YeHoWaH, or Yehovah. This became the Latin Iehovah, and with the letter “J” added to the English alphabet by the 17th century this euphonious name was changed to Jehovah. Jehovah, or Yehovah, has a sinister meaning, as Je-hovah, specifically “hovah”, means ruin, mischief, and calamity (see Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words # 1943). There is a Karaite Jew, who relies on Medieval sources to propagate the false name Yehovah. And yet the Jews have been adding vowels to the Tetragrammaton, the four letters of God’s name [YHWH] since, or before, the 11th century.
This practice of the Jews adding vowels to the Tetragrammaton [fancy name for “the four consonant letters” of God’s actual name], which caused yet another variation, the vowels of Elohim. This led to e-o-i added to the Tetragrammaton to make YeHoWiH (see Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words # 3069).
Many religious leaders of the church, pastors, teachers, and priests know that Jehovah, or Yehovah, are false names, and yet they will stand by their traditions, and YAHSHUA warned us about them: “He answered and said to them, ‘Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men…’ He said to them, ‘All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition’” (Mark 7:6-9). The vowel point under the Hebrew letter Yod, with the vowel called qamets (a for T), not the vowel sheva (e for :). That is YAH not Yeh. The command to Joseph, was, “...you shall call His name YAHSHUA…” (Matthew 1:21)
“Jesus”, is a name never revealed by God. This name came into being through a process of linguistic evolution. Man took it upon themselves to transliterate the common Aramaic name Yeshua to the Greek Iesous. Iesous conformed to the Latin to become Iesus, and this was up to the year 1632 CE. the unrevealed common English name for Christ. After the year 1632, the name of our Lord changed yet again to Jesus. Why does it matter?
Because the apostle Peter testified to the Sanhedrin that: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). When the apostle Peter testified in the name of YAHSHUA, the Sanhedrin reacted strongly. “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with YAHSHUA. And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, saying, ‘What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.’ So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of YAHSHUA. But Peter and John answered and said to them, ‘Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard’” (Acts 4:13-20). The name of YAHSHUA: Forbidden! Because the Jews heard “the name which is above every name,” YAH in His name!
The apostle Paul on the road to Damascus encountered YAHSHUA, and he asked, “Who are You, Lord?” And in the Hebrew language, the Lord tells him, “I am YAHSHUA…” (see Acts 26:12-15). We know that the apostle Paul heard “the name which is above every name,” YAH, because he wrote this: “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved, and there is no rejecting this name, YAHSHUA! Many have said, “It is not about the name. It is about the Person.” According to the Gospel, this is false. As the Savior said, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God’” (John 3:16-18). You stand condemned, because you have not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God! “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name…” (John 1:12). Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! “If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name,’ Says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart’” (Malachi 2:2).
I am confused. Dr.Nehemia Gordon give a lot of teachings that it is Yehovah instead of Yahweh. He argues beside many arguments of the second temple period, that Gilbert Genebrard in 1699 changed the Name into Yahweh because he wanted the the name of God as Creator passed in?
With all this criteria examined there is only one name that has been preserved in history with manuscript documentation from various sources, that meets the rules of Hebrew Grammar and also the vowel deduction of Kativ Kere and that name is Yahweh.
The name Yahweh is not made-up by scholars as we hear from time to time. (See image from Friedrich Delitzsch book Babel and Bible Page 71) These tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh and the Nag Hammadi, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15.
Mari Tablets: biblicalarchaeologygraves.blogspot.com/2014/12/bonus-14-mari-tablets.html
www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Mari
(Akkadian Text: ARM 23, 86:7, ARM 23, 448:13)
Other sources: Yahweh’s name found in Ethiopic Manuscript
S.R. Driver. Recent Theories on the Origin and Nature of the Tetragrammaton, 1883. Essays in Biblical Archaeology and Criticism. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1885, p20. archive.org/details/studiabiblicaes01oxfogoog/page/20/mode/1up?view=theater
The name Yahweh is found documented in many ancient manuscripts. The Encyclopedia Judaica notes that the true pronunciation of Yahweh’s Name was never lost, being pronounced “Yahweh. There is a reason the name was “never lost” and the Jewish Encyclopedia clarifies this regarding the Samaritans, who were chastised by the Jews for using the true pronunciation Yahweh in the Jerusalem Talmud. “These details indicate that the long-sanctioned dread of uttering the Shem ha-Meforash (the explicit name) was by no means without exceptions, and that the correct pronunciation was not unknown. Abba Saul (2d cent.) condemned the profanation of the Tetragrammaton by classing those “that speak the Name according to its letters” (יהוה) with those who have no part in the future world (Sanh. x. 1); and according to ‘Ab. Zarah 17b, one of the martyrs of Hadrian’s time, Hananiah b. Teradion, was burned at the stake because he so uttered the Name. A Palestinian amora of the third century (Mana the Elder) exemplified the apothegm of Abba Saul (Yer. Sanh. 28b, above) by the statement, “as, for instance, the Samaritans who swear”; he meant thereby that in their oaths the Samaritans pronounce the Tetragrammaton exactly as it is written. According to Theodoret, the Greek Church father, who flourished in the fifth century, they gave it the sound of Ἰαβέ (see Löw, “Gesammelte Schriften,” i. 193). See reference
Note: The Samaritans in most instances pronounce bet, vet, waw, pe and fe as a “b”. We often see as an alternative transcription in Greek sources. There was no Greek equivalent of [w], so they used a vowel combination to represent this. “Iaoue” (presumably Ἰαουέ) phonetically Yahweh if the w bears the sound of English: [jɑ-wɛ’].
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry Thank you very much for your response! I really appreciate your effort. I am going to study your answers.
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Thank you for this! Please upload more!
but how can you prove that vav is pronounce supposed to be waw?no hebrew speaker was using waw but instead vav...how can you prove it?if david is dawid?how it is called david?
The V Is modern Hebrew. Not a SINGLE ancient Semitic language uses a V for the 6th letter. Even the languages that evolved from Ancient Hebrew do not use a V for the 6th letter. And concerning David, it is simple they wouldn't have called him David. It would have likely been something like Dah-wed. There is a V, but it is NOT the Waw, it is the Soft Bet.
There is a very easy solution here. Call them, and ask. They will explain it.
It means the Tetragrammaton must be a heteronym.
Look into the Cambridge University Encyclopedia of Ancient languages & see for yourself
So would it be correct to spell it like Yahua for the father & Yahusha for Jesus?
No, the hybrid Yahuah is impossible and breaks the rules of Hebrew Grammar see: yrm.org/yahuah-or-yahweh/
I ofter note the theme vowel /u/ in Yahuah would denote a passive form & you really dnt want your GOD to be passive
Be interested to know what he thinks of the Jewish manuscripts 1000 found in Cairo that date to as early as 9th century AD which say Yehovah.
He wouldn't think anything of such "late" manuscripts. Friedrich Delitzsch translated tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the name Yahweh (Babel and Bible Page 71). So does the Nag Hammadi (2nd century), as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15 in Greek (Yahw). The Jews chastised the Samaritans for using Yahweh in the Talmud see: Yer. Sanh. 28b.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry thanks will look into this!
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The syllables Ha-lle-lu-yah or “Halleluyah” were in use by the Muskogee and Algonquin-speaking nations of the east and southeast coast before colonists. There are two independent recorded instances where the word Halleluyah was in use in Native towns that had never encountered Europeans. Thomas Thorowgood(1) in the 1650s recorded Halleluyah and other syllables similar to the Tetragrammaton in use by the Powhatan. One hundred years later, James Adair(2) made the same observations while living for 40 years in Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek towns in the 1700s.
Thorowgood had encountered with the Native Tetragrammaton variations. Vocables are a combination of syllables that are themselves compositions of the same core group of syllables; Yah, Weh, Yo, Heh, Wah, Ha, Ho, Hoi. It is interesting however that the names for God between these two geographically separated groups are similar. Yoweh sounds like a variation of Yahweh. Yo-he-wah sounds like a variation of Je-ho-vah. And Muskogee Yah, is analogous to the use of Yah in Hebrew. All three of those vocable sets are names for God in Muskogee and Tsalagi, just as their counterparts in Hebrew are names for God. As for the origin of the word Halleluyah in Native towns beyond the frontier in Adair’s life, in places that had never encountered a European, is history lost to genocide and time.
The name Yahweh is not made-up by scholars as we hear from time to time. (See Friedrich Delitzsch book Babel and Bible Page 71) These tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh and the Nag Hammadi, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15.
Mari Tablets: biblicalarchaeologygraves.blogspot.com/2014/12/bonus-14-mari-tablets.html
www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Mari
(Akkadian Text: ARM 23, 86:7, ARM 23, 448:13)
Other sources: Yahweh’s name found in Ethiopic Manuscript
S.R. Driver. Recent Theories on the Origin and Nature of the Tetragrammaton, 1883. Essays in Biblical Archaeology and Criticism. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1885, p20. archive.org/details/studiabiblicaes01oxfogoog/page/20/mode/1up?view=theater
Yod Hey Vav Hey. Please get it correct the third letter is not the one that everybody keeps putting in there it's not Way
Your statement shows apparent lack of understanding of Biblical Hebrew. The waw was not originally pronounced as a bilabial “v” as it is in Tiberian Hebrew. The fact that the waw is frequently used as a mater lectionis for a long u sound would be impossible to explain if it was pronounced v, like the bet rafeh, rather as the semivowel w. Furthermore, there are many Hebrew words where a historical dipthong aw, as evidenced from Semitic cognates, has been reduced to a long vowel, e.g., in hiphil perfect of w-initial verbs hawrid > horid “he brought down”, or in the word yawm > yom “day”, and alternations between a dipthong and a long vowel, e.g.,absolute mawwet vs. construct mot “death.” Such correspondences are only understandable if the phonetic value of the waw was a semivowel.” Aramaic, Ugaritic and later Semitic languages like Arabic, Maltese, and Ge’ez, all use a double “u” comparatively for the 6th letter equivalent. This fact dynamites any possibility that the sixth letter had the sound of a “v” anciently, as these languages all derive from older Semitic languages through Aramaic and as far back as Phoenician, i.e. ancient Hebrew. Dr. Steven E. Fassberg, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard and teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a professor in the Hebrew language department and who headed the University’s Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and has contributed to numerous works such as The Encyclopedia Judaica, stated: “There is no doubt that the original sound was w and not v. Sometime during the history of the Hebrew language there was a shift from w > v in pronunciation, probably already during the Mishnaic Period [70 CE-200 CE]”
PRAISE FATHER YAHWEH THANK YOU YAHSHUA
hey is where we get our upper case E which is pronounced just like hey (think fonzy) H is a different Hebrew letter (Strong's H2971) - let that marinate ;-)
Heh is a semi-silent H sound in Hebrew unless you see a mapiq, then it is a fully aspirated consonant. The E in english has nothing to do with anything.
A statement made by 19th-century Hebrew scholar Gesenius in his Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures reads: “Those who consider that יְהוָֹה [Ye-ho-wah] was the actual pronunciation [of God’s name] are not altogether without ground on which to defend their opinion. In this way can the abbreviated syllables יְהוֹ [Ye-ho] and יוֹ [Yo], with which many proper names begin, be more satisfactorily explained.”
Nevertheless, in the introduction to his translation of The Five Books of Moses, Everett Fox points out: “Both old and new attempts to recover the ‘correct’ pronunciation of the Hebrew name [of God] have not succeeded; neither the sometimes-heard ‘Jehovah’ nor the standard scholarly ‘Yahweh’ can be conclusively proven.”
No doubt the scholarly debate will continue. Jews stopped pronouncing the name of the true God before the Masoretes developed the system of vowel pointing. Thus, there is no definitive way to prove which vowels accompanied the consonants YHWH (יהוה).
Gesenius initially accepted the Tetragrammaton with the vowel points from Adonai, but then later retracted his support for this hybrid and was noted within Gesenius Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, “This opinion Gesenius afterward thoroughly retracted,” p. 337. Upon rejecting Yehovah, he supported the pronunciation Yahweh. There are early Greek sources 1-200CE like the Nag Hammadi (which preserved Elohim, Yaw and Yahweh in the text) the Semaritans and also early Church fathers that have preserved the name in Greek. This is the reason the Encyclopedia Judaica makes the claim, the name was never really lost.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry the Samaritans were not Jews but rather were placed to populate the area.... they WERE pagans and worshiped Zeus. They say so themselves when trying to avoid being persecuted stating they are outside people sent to populate the area please don't do to us what you are doing to the Jews based on our proximity.
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What year and when did the Samaritans say this. John 4:22
The Samaritans were using the name before and after the 1st century. the Samaritans, were chastised by the Jews for using the true pronunciation Yahweh in the Jerusalem Talmud in the 2nd century. “These details indicate that the long-sanctioned dread of uttering the Shem ha-Meforash (the explicit name) was by no means without exceptions, and that the correct pronunciation was not unknown. Abba Saul (2d cent.) condemned the profanation of the Tetragrammaton by classing those “that speak the Name according to its letters” (יהוה) with those who have no part in the future world (Sanh. x. 1); and according to ‘Ab. Zarah 17b, one of the martyrs of Hadrian’s time, Hananiah b. Teradion, was burned at the stake because he so uttered the Name. A Palestinian amora of the third century (Mana the Elder) exemplified the apothegm of Abba Saul (Yer. Sanh. 28b, above) by the statement, “as, for instance, the Samaritans who swear”; he meant thereby that in their oaths the Samaritans pronounce the Tetragrammaton exactly as it is written. According to Theodoret, the Greek Church father, who flourished in the fifth century, they gave it the sound of Ἰαβέ (see Löw, “Gesammelte Schriften,” i. 193). See reference. Why would the Jews chastise a people for using Yahweh if the name Yahweh was wrong? The Yehovah crowd has some SERIOUS explaining to do, especially since they blaspheme His name saying it is from Jupiter.
I'm looking through the web to see whether it's a W or V and there's no definite answer. Even the wiki for the letter Waw says its pronounced both W and V with no indication as to when its either a W or a V.
Really? Almost all Hebrew classes and references show this. If you take accredited Hebrew, like we do at YRM you will never see a class that teaches the 6th letter has a "v" sound. Maybe some psudo Hebrew taught within the "messianic movement." We always say, do not go to the Hebrew Roots movement to learn Hebrew, as they are the ones who teach pseudo-Hebrew pushing their doctrines....ironic. Here is the department head of the Hebrew Language department, at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem explaining why the ancient pronunciation is a "w:" “I believe there are many ways to demonstrate that the waw was not originally pronounced as a bilabial ‘v’ as it is in Tiberian Hebrew. The fact that the waw is frequently used as a mater lectionis for a long u sound would be impossible to explain if it was pronounced v, like the bet rafeh, rather as the semivowel w. Furthermore, there are many Hebrew words where a historical dipthong aw, as evidenced from Semitic cognates, has been reduced to a long vowel, e.g., in hiphil perfect of w-initial verbs hawrid > horid ‘he brought down,’ or in the word yawm > yom ‘day.’ and alternations between a dipthong and a long vowel, e.g.,absolute , awwet vs. construct mot ‘death.’ Such correspondences are only understandable if the phonetic value of the waw was a semivowel,” Adina Moshavi, PhD.
We also reached out to Steven Fassberg, PhD, professor at the Hebrew University and one of the world’s foremost experts in the Hebrew language and the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel. Regarding the gav-gaw question he replied: “gb (gav) is from the root gbb and gw (gaw) is from the root gww. Both are well attested roots in Semitic.” He continues…“There is no doubt whatsoever that vav was pronounced w in the Hebrew of the First Temple period and in Semitic languages.”
Also, look at every semitic cognate, like Aramaic for instance. Every single one use a "W" double U sound for the 6th letter. The bilabial V is in the same class as the 2nd letter, the bet, closed mouth, not an open mouth vowel. Yod, heh, and waw are all semi-vowels (mentioned by Josephus), not consonants. This is the only letter "without the dagesh" that produces this sound in ancient Hebrew, not the waw.
Yod He Vav He YHVH (Yah Ho Vah) same as Jehovah.
There is no "V" for the 6th letter in Biblical Hebrew. Don't confuse Biblical Hebrew with modern Hebrew that the Jews speak today. Also, how do you get the O and V sound in Yehovah that you just posted with only one waw? Thats impossible. The waw was a vowel according to Josephus not a consenant V. In Biblical Hebrew the bet without the dagesh lene makes the V sound. The tetragrammaton does not contain a Bet. Look at the unchangeable vowel "shureq" to see the pronunciation of the waw anciently. Do we say Shal-V-m for Shalom? ...of course not. “There is no doubt that the original sound was w and not v. Sometime during the history of the Hebrew language there was a shift from w > v in pronunciation, probably already during the Mishnaic Period” Dr. Steven Fassberg, Head of the Hebrew University's Orion Center for the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry there is no J in hebrew yet we have Jeremiah and Jesus in English.
So Jehovah in English is proper.
@@maxsavage3998 , correct. Shall we add Jonathan (Yehonatan), Joshua (Yehoshua; Yeshua), Jehoseba (Yehoshabeat; Yehosheba), Jehoram Yehoram), etc. No Yah in any of them. Interesting.
@@vm1552hallelujah, tell me, how do you pronounce this word?
Do you literally say "jah" at the end?
Thank you for sharing!!
If the radical group decided they couldn’t say the name why would they include YHWH in the name of their synagogues?
I thought the same thing however after thinking about it I believe he was using the term Yahweh as an epithet. Like he said they did alot of things that were weird and unusual.
Good question, he said they do things that were very weird so not sure.
The diaspora changed the languages. The Assyrian and Babylonian captives and even the ones sent all through Russia and Europe. The language got mixed up people speak with accents and don’t pronounce words correctly so the language got changed. You have to read the original manuscripts to know for sure. I know a sage, a scholar and teacher who has read them all and I believe him rather than you. Only the TRUE Jewish people can tell us their history and this man has. So The Father’s Personal Name is YeHoVaH (יְהֹוָה). YEHOVAH. Pray and ask Him Himself to tell. If you sincerely ask Him He will tell you.
I think you will find this interesting.
www.academia.edu/59960556/Gordon_The_Writing_Erasure_and_Correction_of_the_Tetragrammaton_in_Medieval_Hebrew_Bible_Manuscripts_abstract
thank you YRM, great and informative! i pray many will have eyes to see and ears to hear this!
Thank you for actually using scholarship. May Yahweh bless your congregation.
Your comment means more than you know. We get rebuked by those who use TH-cam scholars every day and they completely discount modern scholarship, Hebrew grammar, phonology and archaeology. Yahweh bless!
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HalleluYah!
Because the majority says something does not make it true. The source for the pronunciation yahweh is never provided, so where is the evidence to refute yehovah as the incorrect pronunciation.
Yehovah makes no grammatical sense...
Ask Nehemia Gordon to PARSE Yehovah
What on earth is " a lay Rabbi"?!!! I attended an orthodox synagogue for 4 years and not once was the Tetragramaton ever pronounced, always being substituted with Adonai or HaShem.
What Hebrew name begins with Yah I don't know any
& the significance of that?
Amen! But shem means breath/ character/ attribute
WHAT
🤔 So shouldn't the name of our faith be different since the name "Jesus Christ" is wrong hence from the title christian came about. Also what does YRM think about people saying that the name Yashua Hamasiach is Jesus Christ in Hebrew.
We don't use the term Christian, this was coined by the people of Antioch. Christ simply means anointed in Greek. We prefer to use Messianic. Yes, Yahshua Ha mashiach means Yahshua the Messiah in Hebrew. That was His name. The name Jesus is an amalgamation of a bad translation from Y'shua. He was never known by Jesus.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry Amen YRM thank you.
Even if Jesus did not exist they would follow Sun, Moon, and Star Worship! Revelation 17:17
The Roman Empire allowed Christianity but created a Pagan Jesus. Constantine made Christianity the main religion of Rome, and created Constantinople, which became the most powerful city in the world. Historians link the advent of Christianity to Sol Invictus partly because December 25 marked the so-called Feast of the Unconquered Sun before it became officially recognized as the birthday of Christ. The Winter solstice, alternatively called Yule or Sol Invictus, is a pagan celebration Emperor Aurelian established in 272 CE. Aurelian strengthened the position of the Sun god Sol Invictus as the main divinity of the Roman pantheon. He declared Dec. 25 as the birthdate of the “Invincible Sun” and made the day a feast-day.
Deuteronomy 4:19 And when you raise your eyes to the heavens and see the sun and the moon and the stars-all the army of the heavens-do not get seduced and bow down to them and serve them. Jehovah your God has given them to all the peoples under the whole heavens.
Why not just say "Our Father" instead of trying to "be right."
Because of the third commandment for starters, "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your Elohim in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain" (Exodus 20:7 or perhaps Acts 2:21: "And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of Yahweh shall be saved." The very name of the Messiah means Yahweh is Salvation "Yahshua." There are man many scriptures that tell us to call on His name, that's why, because we follow scripture not man's reasoning! Every religion uses the name of their creator except Judaism and Christianity, they simply use the generic "god." Kind of weird don't you think?
But jesus name in Hebrew is Yehoshua meaning God to save or Yehovah to save so if you insist that yaweh is the proper name of god so Yehoshua must be Yahushua?
This video is giving a deceptive fable to come up with Yahweh. Vowels in Hebrew are represented by marks called points. Hebraist Dr. Nehemia Gordon did extensive research into ancient Hebrew texts and found that the vowel points for the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) always have been sheva, holem, and kamatz. Thus, the English pronunciation of the pointed Tetragrammaton (YHVH) can only be Jehovah. He concluded that the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) pronunciation cannot be Yahweh. Indeed, Dr. Gordon determined that the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) pronunciation in Hebrew has always been Yehovah (in English, it would be pronounced Jehovah). Dr. Gordon uncovered more than 1.000 ancient Hebrew Bible manuscripts containing the vowel points that render the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) in Hebrew as Yehovah; in English it would be pronounced Jehovah. Yahweh is a heathen tribal god.
Edward Hendrie
Author of "HOAX of Biblical Proportions"
"Hebraist Dr. Nehemia Gordon did extensive research into ancient Hebrew texts and found that the vowel points for the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) always have been sheva, holem, and kamatz."
Extensive research? Then explain why we also see the vowel points for Elohim in the text: shewa, holem, hiriq. like in Judges 16:28 in the Masoretic text? The same rules apply, just like they apply for the vowels for Adonai which is where yehovah comes from. Isn't it interesting that we see a missing holem in Genesis 15:2... just like we see with the "case for the "full vowels by Gordon." Or removing the hateph seghol and reverting to a simple shewa in Ezekiel 24:24, following the rules of the gutturals, just like we see with the vowels for Adonai. I'm sure Nehemiah never brought any of this out? Why would he his audience does not know Hebrew. This is elementary Hebrew that doesn't require "extensive research." You might as well use the name Yehivih as it is every bit as valid as Yehovah in every way grammatically because both are simply kativ kere, one uses the vowels for Elohim, one uses the vowels for Adonai. Please explain in Hebrew Grammar? Yahweh's name is found in ancient Cuneiform texts dating to (1750BCE) See Babel and Bible page 71 where the name Yahweh is perfectly preserved 3 times in the text.
We have been down this road 100's of times, and we have never gotten an explanation for this a single time.
Also, why did he use YHWH in his own Ph.D. paper? Oh, and By the way, his Ph.D. is in Biblical Studies, not the Biblical Hebrew language. So let's not get it confused. There is a massive difference.
www.academia.edu/59960556/Gordon_The_Writing_Erasure_and_Correction_of_the_Tetragrammaton_in_Medieval_Hebrew_Bible_Manuscripts_abstract
Considering all of this "evidence," I wonder why he would revert to using such an error.
Not even Gordon actually believes the nonsense he peddles. He stands in direct opposition to 99% of scholarship, and when push comes to shove, he will side with them so long as it gets him what he wants. in this case, a Ph.D.
But if he was to stand on his position of Yehovah being correct, they NEVER would have passed it. The very people who are educating him would call out that error as it has been debunked decades ago. Why else would he abandon YHVH in Favor of YHWH?
I'm sure he has a rock-solid explanation as to why he did such a thing.
"Dr. Gordon uncovered more than 1.000 ancient Hebrew Bible manuscripts containing the vowel points that render the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) in Hebrew as Yehovah; in English it would be pronounced Jehovah."
Dr Gordon's "ancient" Manuscripts are all dated to the 9th century and later. They have found Jars of grain older than his "Ancient" manuscripts.
As evidenced in the link to His own Ph.D paper, Gordon is not above deception. He is also called out in MANY places as tampering with his "Evidence".
There is an entire video series dedicated to exposing his obvious lies and his willingness to do things like
- Misquote sources
- Claim "Rabbi's Say xyz" while Leaving out critical details about sources, like the fact that most of the rabbis that he quotes (even then, he alters the quote so heavily they appear to agree with him)" are Kabbalistic. But when taken in their entirety actually disagree with him.
- Writes books about a Messiah he himself doesn't accept.
th-cam.com/play/PLL4I2Njj12SrsP5T1VyULObxD1ir_TR6i.html
The list goes on. We avoid Gordon like the plague as he is not of Messiah, and he has been caught countless times peddling falsehoods to those too ignorant to dispute him.
Again, read his Ph.D paper and try to come up with a reason he chose to use YHWH while telling people like you that "there was NEVER a W in Hebrew".
Do yourself a favor, reach out to the Hebrew University and and ask them for yourself. Present Gordon's arguments and see what they say. We did.
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Thanks.....Thanks be onto The Lord!
Yahweh is & was & is to come. John 8:24; 1 John 5:20; IsaiYah 60:16; Halle-luYAH
I thought "my lord" is adoni not adonai...?
In Hebrew, Adonai is spelled אֲדֹנָי the ending has the qamets vowel under the nun, which is a long vowel and has the long "a" sound like in father. This is why you typically see the spelling with the "nai" ending. The last "i" has the y sound for the yod.
I understood him to say that Adonai is a plural possessive (the "majestic plural like Elohim) which otherwise, as you said, would be Adoni, singular possessive.
Great video. I’m convinced & confident that I am pronouncing the name Yahweh correctly. HalleluYAH
Jehovah's Witness aren't gonna like this. Anyways, very informative vid.
No, they won’t, but the point is, that those who are doing wrong, will never like being corrected.
No one likes being corrected, but it’s what you do after, that makes the difference.
JW’s will never change as a group. But individuals who have earnest hearts will change and Yahweh will guide them to truth, like He has for our family!
Neither is Nehemiah Gordon!
@Michael Bishop Shalom brother! i miss our Shabbat zoom calls! you are a blessing to our ministry!
@Michael Bishop I'm curious, now that you've left the organization, what is your view of Jesus?
No one today knows exactly how God’s name was pronounced in ancient Hebrew. Significantly, however, God’s personal name appears in the text of the Bible some 7,000 times. Jesus made God’s name manifest when on earth, and he instructed his disciples to pray for the sanctification of that name. (Matthew 6:9; John 17:6) Thus, one thing is certain-the use of God’s name is of utmost importance to Christian faith. Why, then, is the original pronunciation of that name uncertain today? A statement made by 19th-century Hebrew scholar Gesenius in his Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures states: “Those who consider that יְהוָֹה [Ye-ho-wah] was the actual pronunciation [of God’s name] are not altogether without ground on which to defend their opinion. In this way can the abbreviated syllables יְהוֹ [Ye-ho] and יוֹ [Yo], with which many proper names begin, be more satisfactorily explained.”
Nevertheless, in the introduction to his translation of The Five Books of Moses, Everett Fox points out: “Both old and new attempts to recover the ‘correct’ pronunciation of the Hebrew name [of God] have not succeeded; neither the sometimes-heard ‘Jehovah’ nor the standard scholarly ‘Yahweh’ can be conclusively proven.”
No doubt the scholarly debate will continue. Jews stopped pronouncing the name of the true God before the Masoretes developed the system of vowel pointing. Thus, there is no definitive way to prove which vowels accompanied the consonants YHWH (יהוה).
Sleight of hand!
What did I miss?
On the contrary it’s not agreed this is the Name of “God” because “God” was a late medieval adoption by the church. It’s agreed this is the Name of the Elohim but there’s no agreement anyone called “God” is involved. Infact, not only is that not agreed but the detail is over all ignored entirely.
Yehovah or Yawheh its good enough
Or Jehovah in English all proven names of Almighty God in Hebrew or English
Actually no, not at all. The name Yahweh has been found in antiquity. Friedrich Delitzsch (book Babel and Bible Page 71) translated tablets from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform, which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the pronunciation Yahweh. The Nag Hammadi, 2nd Century also uses the name Yahweh in Greek, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15, 3 parts of the tetragrammaton (short form) YAHW written in Greek. The Samaritans also preserved the name Yahweh and were chastised by the Jews for using it, see the Talmud reference: Yer. Sanh. 28b. Jehovah is a nonsensical name invented by early Christians who did not understand the concept of Ketiv Kere. The Jewish encyclopedia has a write up on this if you look up "Jehovah." The name Yahweh is easily proven if you just know where to look. I urge you to look up the references above for yourself. The truth does not hide if you simply follow it.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry don't agree we are dealing with semantics. Dont you think the Grand Creator of the Universe wouldnt want his name known? From the Almighty who names even all the quadrillions of stars and planets by name doesnt have a name?
Jesus or Yehoshuah even made Gods name known yet the later 1rst and 2nd century fake christians and jews hid and had his name removed or hidden becauae of some kind of dark mentality or tradition. Jehovah Yawheh Yehovah Yahowah are pretty good for me and close enough.
Fyi there is a first century Greek inscription written on stone of Gods name in Greek IAIO. Gods name should be translatable in any language because he Originated languages. So to say you cannot translate it is really nonsense..
In spanish Iehova in Italian its Geova. Just like Yehoshua Yoseph Yeremiah are hebrew names that are translated with Js. Jehovah never said you cannot translate His Holy name into other languages. To say that is going beyond Yawhehs word in the Torah and Greek scriptures. There is even hieroglyphics of Gods name.
Did you even look up the references mentioned?
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry ,
You wrote: "Friedrich Delitzsch (book Babel and Bible Page 71) translated tablets from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform, which does contain vowels." How is this so? What does it say? How does this "verifies the pronunciation Yahweh? Any reference we can see? Please, thank you.
Here is a link to the page a free PDF version of the Book. archive.org/details/babelandbibletw01johngoog/page/n108/mode/2up
1,600 ancient manuscripts say different...🤫
900AD is not ancient by any who takes Israel's history seriously. They have found jars of grain that predate these "Ancient" manuscripts in Jericho.
The name Yahweh is not made-up by scholars as we hear from time to time. (See image from Friedrich Delitzsch book Babel and Bible Page 71) These tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh and the Nag Hammadi, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15.
Here is a link to an image of Cuneiform tablets that predate the earliest Yehovah manuscript by about 3300 years that contain Yahweh's name exactly: i0.wp.com/yrm.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cuneiform-yahweh-assyrian.jpg?resize=768%2C1258&ssl=1
God’s name is not I Am. Based on scripture!
What is so hilarious is this guy can't correctly pronounce the sacred name of God of the jews. There isn't a "W" in the Hebrew alphabet. So I'm not going to listen to this guy.
What's REALLY hilarious, every single Biblical Hebrew class will teach the W as ancient. Modern Hebrew is the ONLY Semitic language with a V sound for the 6th letter. The W is without doubt ancient. We challenge you to look it up and study it for yourself. This is common knowledge that is being ignored to push a narrative. Simply having modern Hebrew in your username doesn't make you an expert in Biblical Hebrew.
Here is a quote from Dr. Steven Fassberg, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard and teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a professor in the Hebrew language department, also confirms the use of the waw and the erroneous nature of Yehovah. He states, “The pronunciation you mentioned [i.e., Yehovah] is a mistake. The Hebrew consonantal text is YHWH and no one really knows how that was pronounced in Old Testament times. At a later date (the latter half of the 2nd millennium CE) Masoretes added vowel signs to the consonantal text. Whenever the Tetragrammaton was written, they added the vowel signs of the word ‘Adonay,’ which means ‘My Lord’ - there was a taboo on pronouncing the Divine name and one was supposed to read the word ‘Adonay - my Lord.’ Much later some started reading the vowel signs together with YHWH and came up with the nonsensical word Jehovah.
I am eager to hear you refute His point. We get this a lot, people saying "you are wrong" and when they are challenged to explain, they tuck their tails between their legs and just drop a link to another video. You come onto our video and claim we are wrong, we take the time to respond, you need to take the time to explain yourself and show the world the correct answer to these questions.
Simply posting a comment about how wrong someone is is not helpful to anyone seeking truth.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry I'll retract my first comment and I will concede to your position. ONLY if you can give me the accurate and the literal definition of the Biblical Hebrew word בראשית. If you cannot do this. Then you have to retract your statement and concede to my view that the biblical hebrew word vav is enunciated as a "v" and not a "w".
@Michael Bishop How about you answer my question above since the other person hasn't answered it. If you can then you'll settle the argument.
Your obvious blatent ignorance is exactly the reason we get people using this nonsensical name Yehovah in the first place. Geeeze Go take a biblical Hebrew class before making dumb comments.
“…there are many ways to demonstrate that the waw was not originally pronounced as a labiodental “v” as it is in Tiberian Hebrew. The fact that the waw is frequently used as a mater lectionis for a long u sound would be impossible to explain if it was pronounced v, like the bet rafeh, rather as the semivowel w. Furthermore, there are many Hebrew words where a historical diphthong aw, as evidenced from Semitic cognates, has been reduced to a long vowel, e.g., in hiphil perfect of w-initial verbs hawrid > horid “he brought down”, or in the word yawm > yom [יוֹם] “day”, and alternations between a diphthong and a long vowel, e.g., absolute mawwet vs. construct mot “death.” Such correspondences are only understandable if the phonetic value of the waw was a semivowel.”
Professor Adina Moshavi, Ph.D. Semitic languages and Literature
Biblical Hebrew syntax, Biblical Hebrew pragmatics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew Language Department
J is not in Hebrew; V is not in Biblical Hebrew. YHWH is three-syllable word, to be transcribe as YeHoWah, not YeHoVah, nor as 2-syllable word Yahweh which was invented by Heinrich Wilhelm Gesenius 1869. If the vowel pointing of Adonai is used, it would Yahuah with 'W' for 'double u'.
You are correct regarding the yod having the sound of "y" but incorrect on your statement "the v is not in Biblical Hebrew." The second letter "bet" without the dagesh lene has the soft sound of "v." In contrast, the 6th letter "waw" only contains the "w" sound anciently, which is a weak letter, not the harsh "uuu" you are trying to interject. In fact, the yod, heh and waw are all weak letters in Biblical Hebrew and can be used as consonants and vowels (see Hebrew matres lectionis). The name Yahweh goes back much farther than William Gesenius. To say Gesinius invented the name is ridiculous. We can find the name Yahweh in Greek in the Nag Hammadi letters from about 100CE, written along side Elohim in Koine Greek. In fact the name Yahweh goes back anciently much much farther than that however. Friedrich Delitzsch in His book Babel and Bible, Page 71 translates tablets from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform (which does contain vowels). This also verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh, which is known to this very day by the Samaritans. The Samaritan High Priest in Israel confirms the name Yahweh, we have asked him personally. Your final statement is also incorrect, the vowels for Adonai, (Shewa, Holem, Qamets) are: ee- oo- ah Yeh-oo-ah, not Ya-who-ah. The qamets vowel is not used but an initial shewa "ee." Also, the holem has the sound of an "oo" like in role. The Shureq vowel that has the sound of "u" like in ruler is not used here, neither is the kibbutz. Yahuah is an impossibility from Biblical Hebrew Grammar in regards to using deduction from the word Judah, (YeHudah) which is what the Yahuah crowd uses to fabricate this name. A Hebrew consonant always has to have a vowel with it, not two vowels in a row "uu-ahh," which is created by removing the dalet and violates Biblical Hebrew grammar. Please see a much more detailed understanding of this here: yrm.org/yahuah-or-yahweh/
Rock island books & Trey Smith has the old
Exodus 6 3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
This young man absolutely eviscerates Gordon and his fake name Yehovah: th-cam.com/video/EgBkQ-5E0KI/w-d-xo.html
How funny to consult a scholar with a Reformed denominational background to explain the topic out of context. Nehemia Gordon's credentials are proven to be more trustworthy than this chap since he worked extensively with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Did Dr William Barrick do the same? Hardly.
@@elijah0127 Nehemia doesn't even believe in the Messiah, so lets not get into "Backgrounds" here. By scripture, that alone should be enough for us to discount everything he says. (1 John 2:22)
"Nehemia Gordon's credentials are proven to be more trustworthy than this chap since he worked extensively with the Dead Sea Scrolls."
Actually, his "extensive work" with the DSS was rechecking fragments that were already checked in a college classroom setting. He says so in his own podcast. www.nehemiaswall.com/bible-dead-sea-scrolls (around 1:15 seconds in)
He worked alongside Emanuel Tov as an assistant. To say he worked "Extensively" with the Dead Sea Scrolls is simply untrue. He says so himself.
How does this nonsense spread? Who is telling you this information?
At some point we have to ask, why is no one calling out this nonsense? People come out of the woodwork to cheer him on as a scholar of the DSS when they clearly have no idea who he is and what he has done (as we have just demonstrated). They follow this guy around and believe he is the pre-eminent scholar on all things Hebrew and to question him is nigh on blasphemy.
Well, we are here to tell you, prove all things; because not everything he teaches is truth, and that is provable. We have taken Biblical Hebrew classes for years because we got tired of the shady information from these people. We wanted to be able to prove these things for ourselves and when we started, it became crystal clear; what Gordon was teaching was not factual or honest.
I pray you continue your research and study.
If it's credentials you want then look no farther that the Preeminent Hebrew Scholar Dr. Steven Fassberg of the Hebrew University. He was the Department Head of the Hebrew Language Department and of the Orion center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here is what he said when we posed the question about Jehovah: “The pronunciation you mentioned [i.e., Yehovah] is a mistake. The Hebrew consonantal text is YHWH and no one really knows how that was pronounced in Old Testament times. At a later date (the latter half of the 2nd millennium CE) Masoretes added vowel signs to the consonantal text. Whenever the Tetragrammaton was written, they added the vowel signs of the word ‘Adonay,’ which means ‘My Lord’ - there was a taboo on pronouncing the Divine name and one was supposed to read the word ‘Adonay - my Lord.’ Much later some started reading the vowel signs together with YHWH and came up with the nonsensical word Jehovah.
“There is no doubt that the original sound was w and not v. Sometime during the history of the Hebrew language there was a shift from w > v in pronunciation, probably already during the Mishnaic Period” (email correspondence).
I'm sure, however, even though Nehemiah can't stand in this man's footsteps academically you will discount what he has to say. This is typical of those who push this hybrid false name,
The calculation of Ya*weh is 666. The English Gematria for YHWH + Beast = 666… the WEY is 216=6x6x6… the name Ya*weh is literally 666 because there 6 letter, the replace V 6th place in Hebrew alphabetical and the English vowels ‘a’ is 1 ‘e’ is 5 a+e =6
Gematria comes from Kabbalist mysticism. It should be avoided by any and all believers. We stand firmly against this wickedness. It will have no part in this assembly.
Deut 18:10-12 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, 11casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is detestable to Yahweh. And because of these detestable things, Yahweh, your Elohim, is driving out the nations before you.
Instead of using Kabbalism to blaspheme the Name of the Almighty, perhaps you should drop the nonsense, repent, read the scriptures, and learn the actual truth.
I've known people who get wrapped up in Gematria, which has cost them everything. Family, money, friends, and even their acceptance of Messiah. It is wicked and leads people to destruction.
Omg these weirdos
The 3rd commandment the Hebrew word "nawsaw" is used it can mean take but can also mean bring..What is implied here is that we are not to make His name vain (worthless) The name of the most high was taken out of the mouth of the Jew because of their willful disobedience, prior to going into Babylonian captivity. Even though YHWH sent His prophets to tell them to clean up their act. The Jewish people hide his name, so also do the Christian pastors. There is nothing new under the sun. Even today Christians/Jacobites are told to clean up their act, but I get the same rebellious attitude from them as they gave to JerimiYAH and His other prophets. Our nation (US) is falling, but because of their holier than thou attitude, they have become Laodicean. Read Deuteronomy Ch. 32, and you will see what is to become of you..By the way mister speaker He is MESSIAH, not a christ
You are the first person I have seen comment on the common misnomer, "Christ." Why a misnomer? Because this title, which has become a Name, is carried into modern languages without translation. Why doesn't our Bible read "Jesus, the Anointed" instead of "Jesus Christ"? Because by the time the Bible was translated, the Hebrew Messiah/Anointed concept had long been subsumed by the Greek/Roman man-god concept attached to the Name "Christos," Greek for "Anointed." Abandon the name "Christ" and use instead "Jesus," with or without amplifications such as "our Lord," "Our Redeemer," or "Messiah Jesus" and see how your thinking changes!
BAH!!!!
Nehemiah Gordon makes a very strong case for Yehovah.
How so? In light of this video and the points made by Dr. Barrick, what points has Gordon made that shine any kind of light on the subject? What is factually incorrect by Dr. Barrick? Is it Gordon trying to pawn off late medieval manuscripts and imagery that somehow have you convinced? Is it his own made-up Hebrew where the "v" is now an authentic pronunciation for the 6th letter which flies in the face of every Biblical Hebrew class taught at the Hebrew University? Is it the idea that a scribe accidentally slipped in a holem in the Allepo Codex by mistake that Gordon miraculously found on the date of 911 as the planes hit the WTC (talk about sensationalism)? Or maybe its when he changed his narrative that the hidden holem (full vowels) are now everywhere (2000 manuscripts) which we can only assume is now NOT an error made by a scribe? Maybe that contradiction convinced you? Let me speak frankly ...this Yehovah narrative is a fraud and is pushed by shysters to sell books and videos. Don't buy into this nonsense and noise and please, please don't send me a link to a Gordon video, I have seen all his unscholarly nonsense. People keep sending us links to the very nonsense we have already disproved. It seems people watch these TH-cam videos and are convinced because of a lack of Hebrew knowledge. They want Nehemiah to be their Hebrew Scholar rather than learn the language themselves. Sadly this cult following perpetuates this ignorance. If you disagree with this video go ahead and explain your points. Lets talk Hebrew, we are students of the language.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry I guess that touched a nerve, eh? I was actually impressed by the fact that being of a rabbinic family of note, he explained how the rabbis would say the name once a year. I have studied Hebrew for a number of years, but I am not particularly good at it. So it would be pointless to discourse at that level. I have, however, always been taught by my Hebrew teacher that the 6th letter is "vav". I don't believe that the actual pronunciation is all that important in any case. It is the desire to say His name that shows where your heart is. On His return He will, no doubt, tell us many things and answer all our questions. Shalom
@cornelkittell9926 "I don't believe that the actual pronunciation is all that important in any case." yet, here you are.
Who is your Hebrew teacher? We have never heard a single Accredited Biblical Hebrew scholar say the 6th letter is a V.
You didn't touch a nerve, in fact you didn't "touch" on single thing I asked. This is typical of the Yehovah crowd. We submit actual scholarly evidence and ask for the same in return and instead we get "Must have touched a nerve huh?" or "it doesn't REALLY matter how you say his name"
We have had this argument a millions times. and it IS an argument because we are NEVER presented with anything substantial to debate. We have reached out to every single Hebrew expert we can find and none of them agree with the ancient V.
Here is one of MANY we have documented. Nehemia seems to refuse to submit his theories to academia for study and reproof. SO, we have been submitting his arguments and these are the responses we get:
“…there are many ways to demonstrate that the waw was not originally pronounced as a labiodental "v" as it is in Tiberian Hebrew. The fact that the waw is frequently used as a mater lectionis for a long u sound would be impossible to explain if it was pronounced v, like the bet rafeh, rather as the semivowel w. Furthermore, there are many Hebrew words where a historical dipthong aw, as evidenced from Semitic cognates, has been reduced to a long vowel, e.g., in hiphil perfect of w-initial verbs hawrid > horid "he brought down", or in the word yawm > yom "day", and alternations between a dipthong and a long vowel, e.g., absolute mawwet vs. construct mot "death". Such correspondences are only understandable if the phonetic value of the waw was a semivowel.
Professor Adina Moshavi, Ph.D. Semitic languages and Literature
Biblical Hebrew syntax, Biblical Hebrew pragmatics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew Language Department
Even the VERY VIDEO you are commenting on is of an actual Professor who has had all of his theories tried and tested and proven, yet all we hear is "Nehemia Gordon (Fill in the blank)"
It is taxing having to do the leg work for a "scholar" who refuses to submit his studies for peer review and scrutiny. Instead, he spends his time knocking around on a few TH-cam channels speaking to people who have no firm grasp of the Hebrew language. And we are left putting out the fires people create with all this nonsense being spewed.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry What really matters is that is doesn't matter. No one knows for sure as this time and He will tell us what we need to know when He returns. I think there is too much focus and thus strife among brothers over this. Shalom
@@cornelkittell9926 By all means please quote a scripture that says His name doesn't matter.... just one?
This looks at like the Egyptian Pyramid Text and literally mimics Zoroastrian
What on earth are you talking about?
Looks but it's not you should study different language writings this is hebrew writing, egyptian hieroglyph looks different.
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry Greetings. I have been doing some research concerning the Tetragrammaton. What I can't quite wrap my head around is why there are some who reject the name Jehovah. Isn't Yahweh the name that is typically spoken by those whose native tongue is Hebrew, whereas Jehovah is the name of God that is employed by English speakers? I ask because I have an open mind, and I would like to have my confusion dispelled. I would be enormously grateful for your insight. Perhaps you can point me in the direction of some credible sources?
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry Just a bloke discovering the Hebrew language for the first time.
@@HuBriS06 Jehovah is not the name in English. Yahweh is His name in English. Check out the article: yrm.org/yehovah-deception/
Ignore those vowels? Ignore scripture? God's name is Yehowah. All Jews agree on that.
There is a reason he said to ignore the vowels. Because the vowels on the Tetragrammaton were not written to be pronounced. They were written as a sign for the reader to read something else, in this case. Adonai. This is Kativ-Kere
Call up the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and ask them yourself if you don't believe Dr Barrick.
Here is all the contact info you need to reach out to them: en.hebrew-language.huji.ac.il/
For me, the name of the True God is Jesus or Yesus or Iesoes or Yahshu or Yeshu...
John 17:6 I have manifested your name to the men which you gave me out of the world: your they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept your word.
John 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are.
John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John 17:26 And I have declared to them your name, and will declare it: that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
The Son of man only preach one name "JESUS".
And Paul wrote:
Php 2:9 Why God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
So the real question is who the true name of God.
JESUS or YAHWEH?
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Christian got baptized in the name of JESUS CHRIST ....not YAHWEH or Yehowah or Yahuah or Jehovah.
If your God is Allah then you got baptize in the name of Allah...
If your God is Jesus then you got baptize in the name of Jesus.
If your God is Yahweh then you got baptize in the name of Yahweh.
Is there any other name in 4 gospel, that you can be saved?
"If your God is Allah then you got baptize in the name of Allah...
If your God is Jesus then you got baptize in the name of Jesus.
If your God is Yahweh then you got baptize in the name of Yahweh."
This is an untrue statement. Yahshua Messiah is not our "God" but we baptize in his name. There is no other name given among men by which men can be saved, we agree. Yahweh is the Father and Yahshua is the son, we are baptized into the name of the son.
yrm.org/if-you-seek-baptism/
What if you were not baptized at all. Luke 23:42-43!
It's YAHWEH Jesus christ sealed me in a dearm with it
Can you prove that Yahweh is real creator?
Me I can prove you that YeHoVaH is the real creator
To prove it is to have a contest
Call you Yahweh and I will call YeHoVaH
And let's see who will answer
Exodus 3:13-14
I am who I am
He was, He is He will be
Infinite or leolam or forever
Question is where is FOREVER in the Word Yahweh now
All that you got were all fruit of your human understanding
That is why I'm challenging you to have a contest
To prove what you have taught, cause if you can not prove
Your charged is the 9th commandments
You can gather all people whom you know that your Yahweh listen whey they call Him.
Even if you all agreed together are enough
It should be proven and tested
Just like what Moses and Elijah did
You are part of the deception in these last days to hide his true name. I would repent! I have called on the name Yahweh for my entire life. He has answered many prayers and done amazing things. Yes, He is the creator and YES His name is Yahweh not the made up Catholic invention by the Pope's confessor: ""Jehovah" is generally held to have been the invention of Pope Leo X.'s confessor, Peter Galatin ("De Arcanis Catholicæ Veritatis," 1518, folio xliii.), A mispronunciation (introduced by Christian theologians, but almost entirely disregarded by the Jews) of the Hebrew "Yhwh," the (ineffable) name of G-d (the Tetragrammaton or "Shem ha-Meforash"). This pronunciation is grammatically impossible; it arose through pronouncing the vowels of the "ḳere" (marginal reading of the Masorites: = "Adonay") -Encyclopedia Judaica
Here is some actual factual proof for the name Yahweh:
(See Friedrich Delitzsch book Babel and Bible Page 71 for a translation that predates anything Gordon can drum up by thousands of years) These tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh and the Nag Hammadi, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15.
See the image of the Cuneiform with Yahweh: yrm.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cuneiform-yahweh-assyrian-768x1258.jpg
Mari Tablets: biblicalarchaeologygraves.blogspot.com/2014/12/bonus-14-mari-tablets.html
www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Mari
(Akkadian Text: ARM 23, 86:7, ARM 23, 448:13)
Other sources: Yahweh’s name found in Ethiopic Manuscript
S.R. Driver. Recent Theories on the Origin and Nature of the Tetragrammaton, 1883. Essays in Biblical Archaeology and Criticism. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1885, p20. archive.org/details/studiabiblicaes01oxfogoog/page/20/mode/1up?view=theater
With all this criteria examined there is only one name that has been preserved in history with manuscript documentation from various sources, that meets the rules of Hebrew Grammar and also the vowel deduction of Kativ Kere and that name is Yahweh.
The name Yahweh is not made-up by scholars as we hear from time to time. (See image from Friedrich Delitzsch book Babel and Bible Page 71) These tablets are from the time of Hammurabi (1750 BCE) in Cuneiform which does contain vowels. Keep in mind this is 3300 years before the Aleppo Codex and verifies the Samaritan pronunciation Yahweh and the Nag Hammadi, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls Plate 378 Fragment 15.
Mari Tablets: biblicalarchaeologygraves.blogspot.com/2014/12/bonus-14-mari-tablets.html
www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Mari
(Akkadian Text: ARM 23, 86:7, ARM 23, 448:13)
Other sources: Yahweh’s name found in Ethiopic Manuscript
S.R. Driver. Recent Theories on the Origin and Nature of the Tetragrammaton, 1883. Essays in Biblical Archaeology and Criticism. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1885, p20. archive.org/details/studiabiblicaes01oxfogoog/page/20/mode/1up?view=theater
The Encyclopedia Judaica notes that the true pronunciation of Yahweh’s Name was never lost, being pronounced “Yahweh. There is a reason the name was “never lost” and the Jewish Encyclopedia clarifies this regarding the Samaritans, who were chastised by the Jews for using the true pronunciation Yahweh in the Jerusalem Talmud. “These details indicate that the long-sanctioned dread of uttering the Shem ha-Meforash (the explicit name) was by no means without exceptions, and that the correct pronunciation was not unknown. Abba Saul (2d cent.) condemned the profanation of the Tetragrammaton by classing those “that speak the Name according to its letters” (יהוה) with those who have no part in the future world (Sanh. x. 1); and according to ‘Ab. Zarah 17b, one of the martyrs of Hadrian’s time, Hananiah b. Teradion, was burned at the stake because he so uttered the Name. A Palestinian amora of the third century (Mana the Elder) exemplified the apothegm of Abba Saul (Yer. Sanh. 28b, above) by the statement, “as, for instance, the Samaritans who swear”; he meant thereby that in their oaths the Samaritans pronounce the Tetragrammaton exactly as it is written. According to Theodoret, the Greek Church father, who flourished in the fifth century, they gave it the sound of Ἰαβέ (see Löw, “Gesammelte Schriften,” i. 193). See reference
Note: The Samaritans in most instances pronounce bet, vet, waw, pe and fe as a “b”. We often see as an alternative transcription in Greek sources. There was no Greek equivalent of [w], so they used a vowel combination to represent this. “Iaoue” (presumably Ἰαουέ) phonetically Yahweh if the w bears the sound of English: [jɑ-wɛ’].
@@YahwehsRestorationMinistry
go ahead I'm done my job
yeah that Ye-ho-vah is just wicked tradition, ...if you get time search Strong's 1942 or 1943
shalom
The Yehovah deception is the reinventing of a misnomer. Jehovah is a euphonious name. Yehovah or Jehovah are hybrid counterfeit names for God. “In the early Middle Ages, when the consonantal text of the Bible was supplied with vowel points to facilitate its correct traditional reading, the vowel points for Adonai with the variation - a sheva (short ‘e’) with the first Yod [Y] of YHWH instead of the hataf-patah (short ‘a’) under the aleph of Adonai - was used for YHWH, thus producing the form YeHoWaH. When Christian scholars of Europe first began to study Hebrew they did not understand what this meant, and they introduced the hybrid name ‘Iehovah’, later ‘Jehovah’” (Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 7, p. 680). “Jehovah…What has been said explains…the consonants of Jehovah are always accompanied in the Hebrew text by the vowels of Adonai except in the cases in which Adonai stands in apposition to YHWH [the Tetragrammaton]: in these cases, the vowels of Elohim [or Eloah] are substituted. The use of a simple shewa (Hebrew vowel for ‘e’) in the first syllable of Jehovah, instead of the compound shewa in the corresponding syllable of Adonai and Elohim [0r Eloah], is required by the rules of Hebrew grammar governing the use of Shewa” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. VIII, p. 329). “The reading ‘Jehovah’ can be traced to the early Middle Ages and until lately was said to have been invented by Peter Gallatin [1518], confessor to Pope Leo X. Recent writers, however, trace it to an earlier date; it is found in Raymond Martini’s ‘Pugeo Fidei’ [1270]” (Encyclopedia Americana, Vol. 16, p. 8). Apparently, Peter Gallatin’s source for the erroneous name Jehovah was the book by Raymond Martini, ‘Pugeo Fidei’, in which Peter plagiarized. While studying the Hebrew Scriptures, the Dominican scholar monk Raymond Martini noticed the vowel points on the Tetragrammaton, the four consonant letters that make up the name of God, YHWH. He did not know of the Jewish practice of adding vowels from another Hebrew word to remind the readers in the synagogues not to say the name [HaShem] but to say, “Adonai,” instead. The first letter of God’s revealed name is Y, which corresponds to the Hebrew letter Yod. The second letter is a vowel of ‘a’, not ‘e’, called Qamets in Hebrew. The third letter is ‘H’, and corresponds to the Hebrew letter ‘H’, which spells YAH, and this means, “I AM.” Halleluyah means “Praise YAH!” The first syllable of God’s revealed name is YAH. “The saying of God, [‘HaYAH Ashar HaYAH’] ‘I AM Who I AM’ is surely connected with His name…YAH (Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, p. 743, 1967). The Jewish practice of adding vowels points to the Tetragrammaton (the four consonant letters of God’s Actual name YHWH) into the Hebrew Bible vowels borrowed from other words, such as Adonai, which caused YAHWAIH, and later modified to Yahweh. The vowels of Eloah added to YHVH caused the false name Yehovah, or Jehovah. The vowels of Elohim caused Yehovih (see Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words #3069). Je-hovah, as with hovah means ruin, mischief, and calamity (see Strong’s #1942, #1943). All these false and idolatrous names: Yehovih, Yehovah, and Jehovah are counterfeits. The essential name of salvation is YAH according to the Prophet, “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV). "I AM" is YAH, and “this is the name which is above every name.” Christ told the people that He is YAH (John 8:58). Moses asked God for His name, and He said, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH”, that is “I AM Who I AM”, and “I AM” is the name “YAH” (Exodus 3:14). We should know His revealed name YAH, and Praise YAH, and rightly so, “Halleluyah!” Language of any kind conforms to the revelation of God, not God’s revelation conforming to languages. The Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus was confronted by the Lord, and he asked, “Who are You Lord,” and the LORD answered in Hebrew, “I am YAHSHUA…” (Acts 26:12-15). Our Lord and Savior has “the name which is above every name.” The Apostle Paul gives testimony to that very fact: “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA, every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every tongue, and language, is to know this only revealed name for our very salvation, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
How do we know that we know the Lord?
Answer: When we hold to His revelations and commandments, or if not, we shall be cast out as being of lawlessness. The Lord said, in Matthew 7:21-23, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” This will be the excuse of many who justify the counterfeit name of Jesus!
What happens if I reject the name YAHSHUA for the counterfeit name Jesus?
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. ‘He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God’” (John 3:16-18).
Answer: If you do not believe in the name YAHSHUA, the name of the only begotten Son of God, you will stand condemned! Please, please, repent and believe in the name of our only Lord and Savior YAHSHUA! Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! To the Glory of God our Father. Amen.
IS NOT THE NAMES IN HEBREW WHEN PRONOUNCED IN OTHER LANGUAGES CHANGE WHEN, ESPECIALLY THE HEBREW LETTER 'Y' CHANGES TO 'J'. IS THAT NOT SO?
Nope