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YAH or YAHU - The
'Personal' Name of the 'God of Israel' by which He anciently
revealed Himself to Moses (EXODUS 6:2). 'YAH' is
spelt in original Hebrew, with the 10th letter of the Hebrew
alphabet the 'yood', smallest letter in the alphabet,
represented by the inverted comma ( ' ). YAHU also has
the meaning of 'He is
YAH'
This Name, through recent archeological
discoveries in Israel, has been found to be part of more Hebrew
words and names than were formerly known. There is an untold
number of usages in the Tanach ('Old Testament') where this form
of the Sacred Name is used as a conjunction in Biblical
names. Some of the more common examples of these
are:
EliYahu
('Elijah')
YeremiYahu
('Jeremiah')
YeshiYahu
('Isaiah')
YahuShafat ('Josephat')
NetanYahu (also the
name of former Israeli Prime Minister)
YahuNatan ('Jonethan')
and of
course, the Messianic Salvation Name YAHU'SHUAH
('Yeshuah')
ODDITIES REGARDING THE SACRED NAME
'YAHU'
Hebrew personal names have meanings. In each of
the above cases, the meanings of these names refer to the Name
of the Most High, eg. YAH is Strength, My God is YAH, etc
Similarly, the names of the 12 Tribes of ancient Israel each had
a specific meaning, except the Tribe of Judah, the progeny of
which to this day, still represents the original Hebraic Faith
instituted by Moses according to the Divine Mandate which was
handed to him personally by YAH,
God of Israel, some 4000 years ago.
All the disasters of Time failed to wipe out the Tribe of Judah,
which today is known as 'the
Jews' - in Hebrew: Yehudim.
The Tribe of Judah,
in Hebrew
is
'Yehuda', a
Jew is 'Yehudi'. While no
specific Hebrew meaning is attached to this term in the modern
usage, we do find the following meanings as applied to obscure
Bible characters with similar names:
'YahuAdah' (YAH unveils)
1 Chron.
8:36
'YahuYadah'
(YAH
knows) 2 Samuel 8:18, etc
Erasing continuously, and consistently the Name
of our Creator and the Name of Our Only Savior
YAHU, Rom 3:2 ? could be
an "accident" and we don't know if are commanded for a sinister
powers. We hope, for their own salvation, in this actions there
is not any linkage with the 'guardians of His Oracles'
(the
Jews).
In the modern Hebrew dictionary, three
words appear in successive order:
Yehudah - with its derivations
referring to Jews
YHVH -
the Sacred Name, and
Y'SHUAH - the
Messiah's Name
THE TETRAGRAMMATON
The Sacred Name appears in the Hebrew
Scriptures as four Hebrew letters YHVH, known as the
Tetragammaton. According to Jewish tradition it is
regarded as 'not to be uttered' in order never to profane it in
any way. In Judaism it is therefore pronounced as
'Adonai', meaning 'Lord'. Notwithstanding this prohibition, the
Sacred Name is acknowledged in its usage as part of the names of
many Biblical characters, as referred to above - and as any
Bible concordance or reference book will provide.
Because of these prohibitions, translations of
the original Hebrew scrolls have, throughout the ages,
replaced the four Hebrew
letters YHVH, known as the Tetragammaton,
with 'the
LORD' (in capital letters) and the
Sacred Name, in so doing, became 'lost' for many
centuries.
Since the sixties, there has been a movement in
modern theology and especially amongst sincere Bible students
throughout the world, to restore the newly 'rediscovered' Sacred
Hebrew Name. Sacred Name publications which chose to
restore the Sacred Name in the almost 7000 instances in the
Bible, appeared one after the other and the 'Sacred Name
Movement', towards the nineties and the turn of the millennium,
became a flood which today literally engulfs the world..
Although there is no firm consensus on the
actual pronouncement or spelling of the Tetragammaton
YHVH, there are several
representations or transliterations in use by theologians and
Bible students. Some of the more popular forms are YAHVEH, YAHWEH and Jehovah.
A comprehensive list of the various usages that abound,
are presented further down on this page.
For the purposes of this Web Site and out of
respect for the Sacredness and sanctification of the Name, we
will print the Tetragammaton form YHVH
throughout the studies of this Web Site and leave the
reader free to either substitute it or pronounce it in the way
they find comfortable.
The mystery attached to the
Name of the Almighty, is related to the verb ‘to be' ( I am, I
was, I will be) which is the Hebrew verb ‘Hoveh’ (the ‘v’
pronounced as in ‘victory’), meaning “to be”, in the
present tense. YHVH therefore, means:
“YAH Hoveh”, which means “YAH is ...” (YAH being His
abbreviated (actual ?) name as reflected in Psalm 68:4 in some
translations.
It is therefore quite possible that the correct
rendering of the SH'MAH (the Greatest Commandment - Deut 6:4)
should therefore read:
SHMAA YISRAEL, YAH
HOVEH ELOHEINU, YAH HOVEH ECHAD
HEAR ISRAEL
YAH IS
OUR GOD, YAH
IS
ONE
In modern Hebrew grammar this matter is so
serious and important, that the verb ‘to be’ (‘I am’) is not
used in the present tense at all! An Israeli will
therefore state in Hebrew: “I teacher ... I clever”,
omitting the verb 'to be' (I am) in the present tense.
Usage of the Hebrew verb ‘HOVEH’ (I am) would imply referring to
oneself as being the Almighty! This gives reason for
serious contemplation. The Almighty “is” everything good,
without question. The human being, being exactly the opposite,
is so easily inclined to self exaltation and self praise (often
hidden under a false pretense of humility, love, care, etc.).
The use of "I" and "I am" in the vocabulary of the proud and
arrogant individual is a popular practice. The indwelling Spirit
of the Almighty in the heart and soul of the believer, changes
this selfish, haughty, deceiving attitude to an attitude of
genuine humility, recreated in His Image, as the Almighty
requires of us to possess. Volumes could be written on this
subject.
(as Y'SHUAH means "YAH is Salvation"
or "YAH the
Saviour").
YAHU'SHUAH- The
original Hebrew or Jewish Name of the professing Jewish Messiah,
who was accepted as such by a certain section (some 3000 souls)
of Israel, at and after His Appearance in Israel, some 2000
years ago. To them He was known as YAHU'SHUAH (abbreviated: Y'SHUAH,
also pronounced YEHOSHUA or
YESHUA). In time, over
the first few centuries after Messiah, His Name was
gradually changed to "Je-Zeus Khristos" by the pagan masses who
converted and joined the originally Jewish Messianic Sect.
Out of this, Christianity was born, which was a mixture of
originally pure Judaism, and gradually, progressive influences
of pagan customs and traditions, together with a growing tide of
an anti-Semitic spirit. This was greatly due to the
instigation of influential leaders like Constantine the Great, who was a Zeus
worshipper, and who purportedly
converted to
Christianity. It was also a
natural process as a result of the infiltration of followers of
the sungod, Zeus, into the Christian ranks. Even the name of their
pagan idol 'Zeus' was applied to their new-found Jewish Messiah
- and Y'Shuah (the abbreviated transliteration of
YAHU'SHUAH), became "Y'Zeus" or Je-Zeus - which became
'Jesus' in English (NOTE - the middle 's' is pronounced as
a 'z'). In other languages, it took on various other
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A similar pagan influenced name-shift has been
retained to this day in the KJV translation of Luke 4:27, where
it refers to the prophet "Eliseus' and an event recorded in 2
Kings 5:14 (according even to the KJV reference version).
This prophet's Hebrew name, however, was 'Eli'Shuah', which means
"God is my
Salvation" (as Y'SHUAH means
"YAH is Salvation" or "YAH the
Saviour"). Exactly the same as the pagan
influence changed Y'SHUAH to "Y'Zeus" - ('Jesus' - phonetically
'Jezus'), so also Luk 4:27 reflects the change of "Eli'Shuah" to
"Eli'Zeus' ("My God is
Zeus")! Youngs Bible Concordance
in its reference to the name 'Eliseus', states: "The form
in which the name of Elisha appears in the common version of the
New Testament and the Apocrypha in Luke 4:27".
The Hebrew form of the Name YAHU'SHUAH (or Y'SHUAH) is often used in the Tanach (Old Testament) as
well as in the official Jewish daily and festival Prayer Books,
where it is generally translated as "Salvation".
The recent much acclaimed
computer generated research into repeating patterns or 'secret
revealing codes' purportedly contained in the original Hebrew
text of the Tanach (Hebrew Bible), revealed hidden codes of the
Name Y'SHUAH in all the
prophetic sections concerning the promised
Messiah.
The 6th Book of the Bible
uses the identical Hebrew form, and is translated
"Joshua". The most probable authentic form
is YAHOSHUA or
YAHU'SHUA
The publishers wish to emphasise that, although
the forms YAHVEH (for the God
of Israel), and YAHU'SHUAH
(for the Messiah) are favoured in this edition, we
acknowledge most of the other accepted forms. We believe
that we should not be dogmatic, since all the various forms
which are so dogmatically insisted upon by various interpreters,
are merely transliterations of the original Hebrew
- which after all, is the only true and exact Name. All
the various forms which are presented by Sacred Name promoters
and which are the cause of so much confusion, are proposed
in an earnest endeavour to proclaim the Biblical Sacred
Names. This process of representing a word or a name in a
different language, is called 'transliteration'.
TRANSLITERATION OF THE HEBREW SACRED
NAMES
INTO OTHER
LANGUAGES
This process of writing Hebrew words in another
language or alphabet is more an art than a science, and opinions
on the correct way to transliterate Hebrew words and names vary
widely amongst the Sacred Name Restorers amongst all the nations
of the world.. This is why, for instance, the Jewish
festival of lights (in Hebrew, spelled Chet-Nun-Kaf-He) is
transliterated as 'Chanukah, Chanukkah, Hanuka' and many
other forms Each spelling has a legitimate phonetic
and orthographic basis; none is right or wrong from a
linguist's viewpoint. It is only specific in the original
Hebrew.
For purposes of this study, we have
conglomerated from the Oxford Dictionary, a definition for
the process of transliteration, from the three
definitions affecting it, namely, name, word and
transliteration. We then arrive at the following:
Transliteration of the Sacred Name is the
process of representing the original Hebrew sound or combination
of sounds which form a spoken word by which God is known and
identified, in the closest corresponding letters of a different
alphabet
It is obvious, that this process of using "the
closest corresponding letters", would present various options in
the 'new' alphabet, more so, because some Hebrew letters or
sounds are not always represented in other languages.
An absurdity presented by this transliterating
process, is that often the 'new' representations introduce
sounds that are non-existing in the Hebrew language, as for
instance:
- the 'J' in 'Jehovah' ('J'
as in 'George')
- the 'J' in
'Jesus'
- the 'w' in 'Yahweh' or
'Yahowah'
We have to re-emphasise that
these sounds do not exist an Hebrew and is not provided for in
the Hebrew alphabet, yet some Sacred Name promoters insist on
their interpretation and transliteration as the 'only true'
form.
It is for this reason that BIBLE REVELATIONS
promote the wider tolerant stance of "acknowledging most of the
other accepted forms", without digressing from the importance of
finding the correct form of the Sacred Name/s. The soundness of
this tolerant stance can be substantiated by performing the
following exercise:
The following
paragraphs below publish a list of the various transliterated
forms that are commonly proclaimed for the Sacred Name/s.
Read thru this list fast, almost casually or browsingly, without
great concern for specific pronunciation - and LISTEN to your
own voice. You will find that all these variations present
one almost identical sound. It is also important to
realise that, in any nation we find various sectors and dialects
and when presenting these sectors with the pronunciation of even
their own language, we will find great variations. The
foundational Truth is, that a name represents a sound (and a
meaning), and in the written language, this sound is represented
by certain letters to secure that sound. regarding the
Sacred Name/s - the only true foundation that we have for
it, is the written Hebrew form. And to represent
this in various languages, is where the problem rests - thus, in
the Curse of the Tower of Babylon (Gen. 11).
The following transliterated versions of the
Sacred Names which are in use by various Sacred name
groups, are therefore acknowledged:
| FOR OUR CREATOR AND
HEAVENLY FATHER'S NAME : |
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YHVH YHWH Yahweh Yahveh Yaveh Yaweh Jehova Jehovah Jahova Jahovah Yahova Yahovah Yahowah Jahowa Jahowah Yahavah Jahavah Yahowe Yahoweh Jahaveh Jahaweh Yahaveh Yahaweh Jahuweh Yahuweh Jahuwah Yahuwah Yahuah Yah
Jah Yahu Yahoo
Jahu Yahvah Jahvah Jahve Jahveh Yahve Yahwe Yawhu Iahu
Iahou Iahoo Iahueh |
| FOR OUR SAVIOR AND KING OF
KINGS, HIS HOLY SON'S NAME : |
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Jeshua, Yeshua, Yeshuah, Yehshua, Yehshuah, Yeshouah, Y'shua, Y'shuah, Jeshu, Yeshu, Yehoshua, Yehoshuah, YHVHShua, YHVHShuah, Yhvhshua, Yhwhshua, YHWHShua, YHWHShuah, Yhvhshuah, Yhwhshuah, Yahvehshua, Yahwehshua, Yahvehshuah, Yahwehshuah, Yawhushua,Yahawshua, Jahshua, Jahshuah, Jahshuwah, Jahoshua, Jahoshuah, Jashua, Jashuah, Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Yashua, Yashuah, Yahshua, Yahshuah, Yahushua, Yahushuah, Yahuahshua, Yahuahshuah, Yahoshua, Yahoshuah, Yaohushua, YAOHUSHUA, Yaohushuah, Iahoshua, Iahoshuah, Iahushua, Iahushuah, YAHO-hoshu-WAH |
PRONUNCIATION:
YAHVEH = YA-VE, the
‘YA’ as in ‘yard’; the ‘VE’ as in 'Vest’
YAHU'SHUAH
= YAHU- SHOE- A (the final ‘A’ as in
‘arm’). 'YA' as in 'yard'
PRINTED FORMAT:
For YAHVEH - we shall print YHVH
For YAHU'SHUAH - we may
sometimes print Y'SHUAH
(as Y'SHUAH means "YAH is Salvation" or "YAH the
Saviour").
Continuing with our scriptures... Our God
Yahweh said: |
Isaiah 42:8 I am
YAHWEH, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to
another, Nor My praise to carved images.
Mala 2:2 If you
will not hear, And if you will not take it to heart, To
give glory to My name," Says YAHWEH 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.
Psalms 105:1 Oh,
give thanks to YAHWEH! Call upon His name; Make
known His deeds among the peoples!
Psalms 116:17 I will
offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will
call upon the name of YAHWEH.
Isaiah 12:4 And in
that day you will say: "Praise YAHWEH, call upon His
name; Declare His deeds among the peoples, Make
mention that His name is exalted.
Zechariah 13:9 And I
will bring the third part through the fire, and will
refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as
gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will
hear them: I will say, It [is] my people: and they shall
say, Yahweh is my Elohim.
This is only a
small sampling of the hundreds of scriptures that tell us
of the importance of His name. I invite you to consider
these others by clicking
here.
The scriptures reveal to us
the importance of our Creator's name. Scripture tells us not to take His name in
vain (Exodus
20:7),
to hallow (devote to holy
use) his
name (Matt: 6:9), we are to praise his name (Rev.19:5), that the Son came in the Fathers name, and by believing might have
life through His
name.
In
conclusion it is very evident that Yahweh's name is
important to Him but it apparently was not important to
those who have translated His word into the English
language. Therefore we must make every effort when we see
His name substituted in our scriptures to restore them
back as we read them. We cannot change what has already
been done but we can zealously return to the faith
which was once delivered to the saints.
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SACRED NAME VERSIONS OF THE
BIBLEIt is vital that
students of the Bible have a Sacred Name version because the
Scriptures become far more transparent in these versions.
There are various Sacred Name versions of the Bible available on
the market. These are normally not easily obtainable.
Please drop a line at bibrev@pix.co.za if you
find any difficulties in locating a Sacred Name Bible.
Here are a few on-line free versions which you
may use:
Click
here for List of Bible Versions which acknowledge
Sacred Names
How to evaluate a Bible Translation
Version
Typically, the enemy has gotten 'his foot in
the door' with these Sacred Name translations. Because
Truth becomes so transparent when we read the Sacred Name in
some 7000 instances in the Bible, the publishers of some of
these versions have not neglected to twist some of the most
salient texts concerning the sublime Identity of YAHU'SHUAH as
the Only true God, away from this revelationary
Truth. Two popular editions which make themselves particularly
guilty of this audacious tactic, are:
The Traina version, and
The Scriptures (Dr Koster).
The TEST verse, by which to test the authenticity of a specific Translation and the
spirit of the translator, is:
Isaiah 9:5
(or 6 in some versions):
Here is the original Hebrew version and its
literal word meanings:
Ki -
Because
Yeled - a boy
yulad - born
lanu
- to/for us
Ben - a son
natan - was
given
lanu
- to us
va'tehi - and shall
be |
ha'misrah - the rule,
dominion
al Shichmoh - on his shoulder
va'yikra
Shmoh - and - shall call -
His Name
Peleh
-
Wonderful
Yoh'etz - Consultant, Councellor
El
Gibor - God Mighty
Avi-ad - Father
Eternal
Sar-Shalom
- Ruler of Peace
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The literal word meanings
above, indisputably refer to the Messiah as
the 'Mighty God and Eternal Father' - but when
comparing different translations, it becomes clear that some
translators deliberately conceal this Revelation by their
manipulative renderings. The reader may be sure that the
rest of such a translation, in the many less affirmative texts,
will certainly continue this cover-up.
For another example of such
inconsistent translation in The
Scriptures - by Dr Koster,
click here, and do not neglect to read the rest of
that study also - Should we address YHVH as Elohim rather than
God?.
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