YHWH - Pronunciation & Meaning

1. YHWH

2. RESOURCES

3. FOR THE PHONETIC SOUNDS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

4. FOR THE FORMATION OF THE PHONETIC SOUNDS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_of_articulation

5. FROM HEBREW TO GREEK TO LATIN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet

6. TEACHING STYLE

7. Isa 28:9 Whom would He teach knowledge? And whom would He make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts! Isa 28:10 For it is: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. Isa 28:11 For with a jabbering lip and a foreign tongue He speaks to this people, Isa 28:12 to whom He said, “This is the rest, give rest to the weary,” and, “This is the refreshing.” But they would not hear. Isa 28:13 But the Word of יהוה was to them, “ Command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, ” so that they go and shall stumble backward, and be broken and snared and taken captive.

8. THIS WILL BE AS THOROUGH OF A TEACHING AS POSSIBLE AS WE GROW, MORE WILL BE ADDED

9. Exo 3:15 And Elohim said further to Mosheh , “ Thus you are to say to the children of Yisra’ĕl , ‘ יהוה Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham , the Elohim of Yitsḥaq , and the Elohim of Ya’aqob ̱, has sent me to you. THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS MY REMEMBRANCE TO ALL GENERATIONS .’ Psa 116:17 I bring You a slaughtering of thanksgiving, AND CALL UPON THE NAME OF יהוה . Psa 116:18 I pay my vows to יהוה In the presence of all His people, Psa 116:19 In the courts of the House of יהוה , In your midst, O Yerushalayim . Praise Yah!

10. Rev 2:17 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I shall give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I shall give him a white stone, and on the stone A RENEWED NAME WRITTEN which no one knows except him who receives it.” ’ Rev 3:12 “He who overcomes, I shall make him a supporting post in the Dwelling Place of My Elohim , and he shall by no means go out. And I shall write on him the NAME OF MY ELOHIM and the name of the city of My Elohim , the renewed Yerushalayim , which comes down out of the heaven from My Elohim , and MY RENEWED NAME .

11. Exo 20:7 “You do not BRING ( נשׂא - NaSHa ’ ) the Name of יהוה your Elohim to NAUGHT ( שׁוא - SHaWa ’ ) for יהוה does not leave the one unpunished who brings His Name to naught. H5375 נשׂא - na sh a‘ - naw -saw‘ A primitive root; to lift …to bear … to bring H7723 שׁוא - shaw ‘ – shaw’h or shaw desolating ; evil (as destructive ), literally ( ruin ) or morally (especially guile ); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjectively), uselessness (as deceptive, objectively; also adverbially in vain ): - false (- ly ), lie, lying, vain, vanity.

12. SPECIAL NOTE

13. H7723 - שׁ ו א - SH W ‘ “ shawa ” - ruin/vanity - Noun H7722 - ש ׁ ו א - SH W ‘ “ showah ” - desolation - Noun H7768 - שׁ ו ע - SH W C “ shawa C ” - to cry for help - V H7769 - שׁ ו ע - SH W C “ shoowa C ” - cry for help – N H7771 - ש ׁ ו ע - SH W C “ showa C ” - rich – N H3444 - י ש ׁ ו ּ ע ה - Y SH W C H “ y e shooah ” - deliverance - N passive participle of H3467 י ש ׁ ע - Y SH C “ yawsha C ” - to save - V YAHUSHUA = YHWH Saves or YHWH is the Deliverer Yahusha is incorrect

14. THE VERSES WE READ DURING SHABBAT

15. Psa 23:3 He turns back my being; He leads me in paths of righteousness FOR HIS NAME’S SAKE . Psa 91:14 “Because he cleaves to Me in love, Therefore I deliver him; I set him on high, BECAUSE HE HAS KNOWN MY NAME. Psa 91:15 “When he CALLS ON ME ( qara ’ ) , I answer him; I am with him in distress; I deliver him and esteem him. Mat 6:9 “This, then, is the way you should pray: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, LET YOUR NAME BE SET-APART, Num 6:27 “Thus they shall PUT MY NAME ON THE CHILDREN OF YISRA’ĔL , and I Myself shall bless them.” In e-sword, The scriptures 1998 “Name” (Capitalized) is found 537 TIMES

16. WHAT IS IN A NAME? Ms - Ms % - ShaM The breath of a man is character, what makes one what he is. The name of an individual is more than an identifier but descriptive of his character or breath . Gen 2:7 And יהוה Elohim formed the man out of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils breath of life ( נשׁמת חיים - N e SHM aT HHaYiM ). And the man became a living being.

17. Psa 23:3 He turns back my being; He leads me in paths of righteousness FOR HIS NAME’S SAKE . Psa 91:14 “Because he cleaves to Me in love, Therefore I deliver him; I set him on high, BECAUSE HE HAS KNOWN MY NAME. Mat 6:9 “This, then, is the way you should pray: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, LET YOUR NAME BE SET-APART, Num 6:27 “Thus they shall PUT MY NAME ON THE CHILDREN OF YISRA’ĔL , and I Myself shall bless them.” In e-sword, The scriptures 1998 “Name” (Capitalized) is found 537 TIMES

18. Mal 3:16 Then shall those who fear יהוה speak to one another, and יהוה listen and hear, and a book of remembrance be written before Him, of those who fear יהוה , and those WHO THINK UPON HIS NAME . Mal 3:17 “And they shall be Mine,” said יהוה of hosts, “on the day that I prepare a treasured possession. And I shall spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him. Psa 79:9 Help us, O Elohim of our deliverance, For the sake of the ESTEEM OF YOUR NAME . And deliver us, and cover over our sins, FOR YOUR NAME’S SAKE! Psa 45:17 I cause Your Name to be remembered in all generations; Therefore the people praise You forever and ever.

19. Jer 10:25 Pour out Your wrath on the gentiles who do not know You, and on the tribes who do not call on Your Name . For they have eaten up Yaʽaqob ̱, devoured him and consumed him, and laid waste his home. Mal 2:2 “If you do not hear, and if you do not take it to heart, to give esteem to My Name ,” said יהוה of hosts, “ I shall send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your blessings . And indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to heart. Psa 79:6 Pour out Your wrath on the gentiles Who have not known You, And on reigns that have not called on Your Name . Psa 105:1 Give thanks to יהוה ! CALL UPON HIS NAME , Make known His deeds among the peoples. Psa 105:2 Sing to Him, sing praise to Him; Speak of all His wonders. Psa 105:3 Make your boast in His set-apart Name; Let the hearts rejoice of those seeking יהוה .

20. Exo 9:16 “And for this reason I have raised you up, in order to show you My power, and in order to declare My Name in all the earth . Eze 39:7 “ And I shall make My set-apart Name known in the midst of My people Yisra’ĕl , and not let My set-apart Name be profaned any more. And the gentiles shall know that I am יהוה , the Set-apart One in Yisra’ĕl . Deu 12:3 “And you shall break down their altars, and smash their pillars, and burn their Ashĕrim with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their mighty ones and shall destroy their name out of that place . Deu 12:4 “ Do not do so to יהוה your Elohim , Jer 23:27 who try to make My people forget My Name by their dreams which everyone relates to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot My Name for Ba’al .

21. Hos 2:16 “And it shall be, in that day,” declares יהוה , “that you call Me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘My Ba’al .’ Hos 2:17 “And I shall remove the names of the Ba’als from her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name . Psa 44:20 If we have forgotten the Name of our Elohim , Or stretched out our hands to a foreign mighty one, Psa 44:21 Would Elohim not search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart . Exo 23:13 “And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make no mention of the name of other mighty ones , let it not be heard from your mouth. Hos 12:5 even יהוה Elohim of hosts, יהוה is His remembrance . Deu 18:5 “For יהוה your Elohim has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the Name of יהוה , him and his sons forever.

22. Joe 2:30 “And I shall give signs in the heavens and upon the earth: blood and fire and columns of smoke, Joe 2:31 the sun is turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of יהוה . Joe 2:32 “And it shall be that everyone who CALLS ( qara ’ ) on the Name of יהוה shall be delivered . For on Mount Tsiyon and in Yerushalayim there shall be an escape as יהוה has said, and among the survivors whom יהוה calls ( qara ’ ) .

23. TO CALL H7121 קרא - qa ̂ra ̂‘ - kaw -raw ' TO CALL OUT TO ( that is, properly address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications): - bewray [self], that are bidden, CALL (for, forth, self, upon), CRY (unto), (be) famous, guest, INVITE , MENTION , (give) name, PREACH , (make) PROCLAIM (- ation ), PRONOUNCE , PUBLISH , READ , RENOWNED , SAY .

24. TO CALL Rq - Rq - QR Ac – Call , co – Meeting ab – Event The pictograph q is a picture of the sun at the horizon and the gathering of the light, the r is a picture of the head of a man. Combined these mean "gather the men". The meeting or bringing together of people or objects by arrangement, accident or purchase. ( eng : occur; call - with the exchange of the l and r)

25. TO CALL Arq - Arq - Q-RA VERB I. Call: To call or call out, to call a name or give a name. [Hebrew and Aramaic] II . Meet: To come together to meet. Also a chance encounter. III . Read: To read a scroll in the presence of those called to a meeting. [ freq. 883 ]

26. FACTS ABOUT THE NAME H3050 - יה – YAH Appearances in Scriptures: About 50 ** 6 times outside of Psa and SofS (Poetry)** H3068 - יהוה – YHWH Appearances in Scriptures: 8000+ NUMBER OF NAMES THAT CONTAIN YAH 137 NAMES NUMBER OF NAMES THAT CONTAIN YAHU 100 NAMES

27. FACTS ABOUT THE NAME YAH IS FROM THE VERB HAYAH = EIE (H1961) It means : to exist, be or become, come to pass TO HAVE BREATH THERE IS ANOTHER VERB THAT MEANS “TO EXIST” H1933 הוה הוא ha ̂wa ̂' ha ̂wa ̂h haw- waw ', haw- waw ' to breathe ; to be (in the sense of existence ):

28. YAD I O R WAW F THERE ARE MANY WORDS IN WHICH THE 2 LETTERS ARE INTERCHANGED BUT THE MEANING IS THE SAME

29. FACTS ABOUT THE NAME H1735 דּוד והו ּ Doda wahu ( do- daw - waw '- hoo ) love of Yah ; Dodawah , an Israelite H1937 הוד וה Hod e wah ( ho-dew-aw‘) majesty of Yah ; Hodewah (or Hodewyah ), an Israelite EVEN THOUGH THE NAMES END IN “ WAH ” THEY STILL PAY ATTRIBUTE TO YAH

30. FACTS ABOUT THE NAME THEORY יה – YAH AND וה – WAH COULD POSSIBLY BE PARTICIPLES WITH THE MEANING: “ THE EXISTER ” OR “ THE ONE WHO EXISTS ”

31. Exo 3:14 And Elohim said to Mosheh , “ I AM THAT WHICH I AM .” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Yisra’ĕl , ‘I am has sent me to you .’ אהיה אשׁר אהיה ‘- HYH ‘ SHR ‘- HYH I WILL EXIST HOW I WILL EXIST ‘ASHER = Relative Pronoun Exo 3:15 And Elohim said further to Mosheh , “Thus you are to say to the children of Yisra’ĕl , ‘ יהוה Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham , the Elohim of Yitsḥaq , and the Elohim of Ya’aqob ̱, has sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is My remembrance to all generations.’

32. IF YOU READ THE STORY BEHIND FAMOUS NAMES SUCH AS, LARSI ( Yishr’al – “ Yisra’e l ”) , THE 12 TRIBES OF LARSI , THE NAMES OF THE PATRIARCHS AND EVEN THE NAME OF h ISMe OSFeI ( Yahushua HaMashich ) YOU’LL REALIZE THEY TELL YOU THE INTENDED MEANING BEHIND THE NAME BEFORE YAH TOLD MOSHE THE NAME: EFEI IN VERSE 15, HE STATED e IeA RSA e IeA (‘ ahayah asher ‘ ahayah ) AND HIHA AGAIN THUS WE KNOW THE MEANING BEHIND eFeI WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH “EXISTENCE”

33. IS IT PAGAN ?

34. Lachish Ostracon Estimated Date: 589/588 BCE (Before the fall to Babylon) LINES 1, 15, 17(2) = NAMES W/ YAHU LINES 3, 9 = YHWH

35. Katef Hinnom Silver Scrolls Estimated Date: 700-600 BCE

36. Line 17: women and female slaves. For Ashtar Kemosh I put it to the ban. And I took from there the vessels Line 18: of YHWH , and I hauled them before Kemosh . Now the king of Israel had built Possibly parallels events of 2 Kings 3 Estimated Date: 840 BCE The Mesha Stele aka “The Moabite Stone"

37. Line 8 ' . the king of Israel, and I killed [...] yahu son of [... the ki ]/ ng of Estimated Date: 870-750 BCE Tel Dan Stele

38. Date of Writing: c. 700 BCE Location of Discovery: Outside of Los Lunas New Mexico These are the Ten Commandments written in Paleo -Hebrew found in AMERICA

39. יהוה is found over 380 times Isa 33:22 for יהוה is our Judge, יהוה is our Lawgiver, יהוה is our Sovereign, He saves us –

40. THE MEANING

41. THERE ARE A COUPLE THEORIES BEHIND THE MEANING OF EFEI “HE EXISTS” where the name reads EfE - i In Hebrew Grammar, adding an I to the beginning of a verb ( EfE ) makes it 3 rd Person Singular Masculine Imperfect Hence EfE - I would either mean “ He Will Exist ” or “ HE EXISTS ”, it would be the latter to be consistent in tense with eIeA - “ I AM ” 2 ) E fEI is derived from afei which is pronounced “ YAH- OO ” and means either He Shall be (verb) or the name YAHU which means E fEI is He (H3058) Exo 6:2 And Elohim spoke to Mosheh and said to him, “I am יהוה .

42. Isa 48:12 “Listen to Me, O Ya’aqob ̱, and Yisra’ĕl , My called: I am He ( הוא אני ), I am the First, I am also the Last. Isa 41:4 “Who has performed and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? ‘I, יהוה , am the first, and with the last I am He .’ ” ( הוא אני ) Isa 43:10 “You are My witnesses,” declares יהוה , “And My servant whom I have chosen, so that you know and believe Me, and understand that I am He . Before Me there was no Ěl formed, nor after Me there is none. Isa 43:11 “ I, I AM יהוה , and besides Me there is no saviour. Isa 46:3 “Listen to Me, O house of Ya’aqob ̱, and all the remnant of the house of Yisra’ĕl , who are borne from the belly, who are carried from the womb: Isa 46:4 even to your old age, I am He , and even to grey hairs I carry! I have made and I bear, and I carry and rescue.

43. HAYAH (1961) = TO EXIST, TO BE, HUW (1931) = THAT, WHICH, WHO, HE HAWAH (1933) = TO EXIST, TO BE 3)

44. PRONUNCIATION

45. YAHWEH?

46. YAHWEH? Zues (Greek) Iou Pater (Latin) = God-Father = Iuppiter = Jupiter JOVE = IOUE = IAUE = Y - A - W - E = Yahweh YAHWEH possibly come from JOVE which was another name for ZEUS

47. YAHWEH? It was the Greek translators that would often replace the “ah” ending that was believed to be feminine, with an “eh” ending Furthermore, despite the variation in vowel pointings , most of the ones I’ve come seen show that there is suppose to be an “aw” sound between the f waw and the e ha

48. YAHWEH? HEBREW GRAMMAR HWH pronounced “ Hawah ” is… 3 rd Person ( He, She, They ) Masculine ( He ) Perfect Tense Verb Meaning “ He Existed ” To get ‘He Will Be” or “He Exists” you add the Yad i Now normally this would be pronounced (according to current H ebrew Grammar Rules) “ yih’woh ” But there are some issues with that…

49. YAHWEH? HEBREW GRAMMAR HWH is what you call in Hebrew Grammar an “ IRREGULAR VERB ” It starts and ends with Ha It has 2 Ha hence it’s labeled “ Doubly Weak ” Because it has a Waw in the middle, it’s called a “ Hollow Verb ” Each of these conditions have special rules in pronunciation, let alone all there in one word We’ll discuss this more later, However, even in Hebrew Grammar, there is no vowel pointing that renders the pronunciation “Yahweh”

50. SO WHAT IS THE PRONUNCIATION?

51. There are 4 possibilities based on the Hebrew Grammar Rules I’ve studied thus far Y a H a W a H Y a H u W a H Y a H o W a H Y a H u W a H *** Regarding “ Yeh ” – when talking about natural pronunciation , the Masorites would place a Shewa (:) under the first letter of a word with multiple syllables because we naturally would not pronounce “Yaw” at the beginning of the word when spoken at regular speed , hence the most accurate way to represent the first syllable would be Y’ or Y ə

52. Of the three, Y a H u W a H and Y a H u W a H is the most attested The name of the Tribe of larsi from which The MessiYah came from is edfei which is pronounced “ YaHU Dah ” Never YaH ODaH nor YaHU Deh Gen 29:35 And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “ Now I praise יהוה .” So she called his name Yehuḏah . And she ceased bearing.

53. 2) “ Yahu ” fei is at the end of 72 Hebrew names in Scripture, not “ Yaho ” 3) In order to get the pronunciation YaH oDaH (or Yeh oDah ), would need special vowel pointings . It’s believed these vowel pointings were altered so efei would have the same vowels as Adonai and Elohim (Like Yehovih – H3069 )

54. 4) The Waw can be a Consonant and a Vowel H6312 פּוּה פּוּאה pu'ah pûwwâh poo-aw ', poow-waw ' a blast ; Puah or Puvvah , the name of two Israelites: - Phuwah , Pua , Puah . Another Example ‘ aliyahu - feila = My Power is efei (H452) VS ‘ alihu – feila = He is My Power (H453) Exact same spelling, but they have different meanings because the YAD in ‘ ALIYAHU is consonant and a vowel while it’s only a vowel in ‘ ALIHU

55. 5 ) aHaYah – ‘ aSheR - aHaYah aHaYaH – HuW – aHaWaH The above two statements say the exact same thing I Will Be (What, Who, How, That, Cause) I Will Be This wouldn’t work if the middle said “Ho” which means Oh! Alas! Ah! Some Hebrew names are a mashup of words YaHUDah = YHWH + YaDaH YaHUSHUA = YHWH + YaSHUA YSHaR’aL = Y + SHaRaH + ‘ aL YHWH = HaYaH + HuW + HaWaH Or YHWH = Y + HaWaH

56. 6) Vowel Points Because the Hebrew Language is “ Abjad ” (Consonant Only) certain techniques were employed after TaNaKh was written determine vowel sounds 'By the beginning of the Middle Ages, the Masoretes  of Babylonia and Palestine (6th–10th century) had fixed in writing, by points and annotation, the traditional pronunciation, punctuation, and (to some extent) interpretation of the biblical text.' -   Encyclopedia Britannica However, The Dead Sea Scrolls (408 BCE - 318 CE) didn’t use vowel points, they used “ matres lectionis ”  ( Latin:  "mothers of reading“),the use of certain consonants to indicate a vowel.

57. 6) Vowel Points 86% of the instances that YHWH is written in the TaNaKh is vowel pointed as יְהוָה Where ָ = Qamets = “a” as in father And ְ = Schwa = "ə" sounds like the “a ” in a-bout, or ca-reen For Yeh -o- wah , you would need the pointing = Holam = “o” as in role

58. 7) Lion of larsi

59. 8) THE HA e

60. 8) THE HA

61. 8) THE HA The Greeks would use characters from our alphabet that represented letters that did not pronounce (the gutturals a f o ) to represent vowel sounds I believe in Ancient Hebrew Ha e was just a BREATH while Hhat h was a stronger breath that was closer to the pronounced letter “ H ” (Hercules vs Alleluiah ) I believe this is why Jamaicans don’t pronounce “ H ” at the beginning of a word, it’s because we lost the original pronunciation

62. 8) THE HA I also believe this is how we went from fei ( YaHU ) to fi ( YO ) Like in Yo hhanan , Yo saph , Yo nah , Yo ’al ** “ Jo shua ” and “ Ju dah ”** This is also the reason why some of the names in Scripture is missing the “ H ” H abel – Able , H oshea – Osee , H alaluYa h - Alleluia Also when there is suppose to be a “ Hh ” they put and “ H ” Hh am – Ham , Hh izqiyahu - Hezekiyah , Hh ermon - Hermon BUT: HaYaH vs Hh aYaH , HaWaH vs . Hh aYaH

63. 8) THE HA H1887 הא – ha’ A primitive particle; lo ! : - behold, lo. H162 אההּ - ' a ̆hâ hh - a-haw ' Apparently a primitive word expressing pain exclamatorily; Oh !: - ah, alas . H1929 ההּ - ha ̂ hh - haw ah ! expressing grief: - woe worth. The pictograph e represents “ one who is looking at a great sight with his hands raised and taking a long breath ”.

64. 8) THE HA Ha e is a Breath The other Gutturals (From the throat) A h o Also deal with the breath , their sound is made by changing the shape of the channel the breath flows through, just like vowels In Hebrew the Gutturals were characters , but their sound was related to the vowel before and/or after it This is why the Greeks used these Characters for Vowel Letters

65. SO WHAT’S THE VERDICT?

66. To this day the Cherokee call the Creator " Yowa ", which does resemble "Iowa", which would be a short form. J.C. Beltrami called the Iowa river the YAHOWA 10  river, interesting to say the least . - A Pilgrim in Europe and America Vol. II p. 151 byJ.C . Beltrami (1828)

67. OTHER THEORIES

68. 1 2 3) When saying YHWH it’s like breathing YAH = Inhale WAH = Exhale