why do you call [yhwh] jehovah?if you were to come across my friend carlos you would surely never call him charles...
i am presenting you my information on the subject.
Jehovah is composed of the abbreviated forms of the imperfect, the participle, and the perfect of the Hebrew verb "to be" (ye=yehi; ho=howeh; wa=hawah). According to this explanation, the meaning of Jehovah would be "he who will be, is, and has been". But such a word-formation has no analogy in the Hebrew language.
The abbreviated form Jeho supposes the full form Jehovah. But the form Jehovah cannot account for the abbreviations Jahu and Jah, while the abbreviation Jeho may be derived from another word.
The word Jehovah is a mistaken pronunciation of this word. It arose when a Christian scholar, Petrus Galatinus (~1520AD) combined the consonants YHWH with vowels belonging to the word Adonai. (YaHoWaH, it was written as Jahowah because in latin J is pronounced like Y). Jahowah was further anglicized as Jehovah.
According to Harper's Bible Dictionnary, this name is "the result of the translators' ignorance of the Hebrew language and customs" (1985, p1036) The book of World Religions from Ancient History says "The name Jehovah is a medieval misreading and does not occur in the Hebrew Bible" (p.386)
i like how you've taken to forget about defending the name 'jesus'.
So what is His name?? "Strictly speaking, Yahweh is the only 'name' of God" (The Divine Name that will Endure Forever, p25). But why do they still use Jehovah?? "Because it has a familiarity that Yahweh does not have." (The Divine Name that will Endure Forever, p9)...But doesn't God tell us not to misuse His name? (Deuronomy 5:11)
go to your local library, see if you can find
this book.
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The word Jehovah does not accurately represent any form of the Name ever used in Hebrew" (
The Divine Name that will Endure Forever,
p20, published by
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society)
Our purpose is not to follow erroneous traditions of men: "Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men." (Mark 7:7)
The mistaken name Jehovah is said to have been given us about 1518 by Peter Gallatin who was confessor to Pope Leo X. The efforts not withstanding Protestant reformers to return to the truth of the Bible, the majority of Protestants still retain the erroneous name Jehovah which was handed to us by the Catholics.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance is almost a necessity for gaining a deeper insight into the original languages. Notice in the Hebrew dictionary of Strong's No. 3050, the entry "Yahh," a contraction for 3068 [the Tetragrammaton, the Sacred Name].
Shocking Implications of 'Jehovah'
The suffix "hovah" is No. 1943 in Strong's Hebrew Dictionary and has the meaning of "ruin: mischief." It is another form of No. 1942, havvah, which is translated "calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness."
Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius says of No. 1943, hovah: "ruin, disaster."
From this we can see the folly of calling the Creator of this universe-the One we worship-Jehovah. For in calling upon this hybrid name we are in actuality beseeching a mighty one whose name carries the meaning, "The One Who creates ruin, creates mischief, creates calamity, creates iniquity, creates naughtiness, creates perverse things, creates very wickedness."
centuries is not milleniums, which is as long as [yhwh] has been recognized as the original name.
and it doesn't matter how long it's been around, or how popular the kjv made it(
so popular, that the nwt adopted straight from the kjv due solely to it's popularity, and not from any scholarly work on the name), it is not possibly the original name.
...The Bible is the ultimate guideline as the base of all our beliefs, including blood....
try not reporting your hours.try having street clothes on during studys,preaching,and while attending a few meetings, let a beard grow as yeshua had.see what happens.defend reporting hours with the 'bible', defend claiming to be 'gad's true oranization even through all the mistakes and false prophesies?
i think you'll take me wrong, alot of my friends are jw, and we share some beliefs.but these are simply some of the reasons i cannot give myself to the wtbs.
Why do JWs believe the end is near?
We know the end is now near because of Bible prophecy
intimidation, though mainstream christianity is as if not more guilty of this act, the possibility of the world ending turns people towards religion.see people waiting on death row, see how religous most of them become.
Seems to me you have a SECRET BIBLE, because I've never read one that sats "Go to Heaven" you me or anyone else. (Joh 3:13 No one has ascended intoheaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man
Mt 20:23
I understand that Jehovah's witness cannot box, wrestle or study martial arts. Is this true? I also understand that they are discouraged from marrying outside of their faith...how true is that?
my friend was also discouraged and talked out of playing football(organized).they are also discouraged against the education of the world(i.e. college) and often times they work with the family.i've seen these things first hand in the local congregation.
btw, if jw's believe in words like sunday,monday,ect.,god,lord, and holy then why don't they use the word church?it is seriously frowned upon, and that is blatently hypocritical.
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