A name was originally always something you would be known by, it always had a meaning and was a word, it was basically "Your fame", something you are known for or by, and people could have many names, these were often descriptive, or otherwise something people wanted or what their parents wanted for them, or to protect them somehow from harm in some way, but they all had meanings, and you were generally given or took on names that you were notorious for, meaning it was of note and something to do with your personal super power or remarkable attribute. God invented such a thing as names, as well as everything else that humans and whatever come up with, and God is not a human (according to me), and so I never imagined or thought God has any name originally, as there was no one to name God, and God has every name which is appropriate or true and accurate, and can select or demand any name and then make people resistant to it or say or whatever, as I take us all as just God's empty puppets.
There are a lot of names I use or find appropriate and acceptable as names of God which I refer to God by and mean God by, but one that I don't really like or use much is YHWH, which I feel doesn't really seem to have a very clear meaning and may have been used to cover up some other term as people were prone to mask things sometimes, like how they on top of pronouncing YHWH as Adonai, might be concealing a word that was originally in that place. It doesn't seem to have a clear or easy type of name quality or meaning like most all names, plus barely anyone can confirm how it should even be pronounced if it is to be pronounced. It also doesn't seem very Universal, as it spent most of its time being particularly exclusively in the writings of mainly the Jewish ethnic group which were adopted by the Christians.
I don't think YHWH was God's name before the creation of names, or the name God took but concealed from Abraham when speaking as El Shaddai?
The amazing name YHWH: meaning and etymology
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After all this it should be clear that the name YHWH can't be readily interpreted.
If we're dealing with an expression of the verb הוה (
hawa II), and we maintain that this verb means to fall, then YHWH would mean
Falling, or
He Will Fall or
He Will Cause To Fall. This line of reasoning may seem to lack any trace of sound theology, but the divine name
Shaddai reflects a similar negative, and may mean My Destroyer. The prophet
Isaiah writes, "Wail, for the day of YHWH is near. It will come as destruction (
shad) from Shaddai" (Isaiah 13:6).
But perhaps we have the verb הוה (
hawa II) all figured wrong, and הוה (
hawa II) is the same as הוה (
hawa I), meaning to be or to happen. Then YHWH would comfortably mean
Being or
He Is or
He Will Cause To Be."
YHWH is probably among my least preferred names or epithets applied to God, though I'm not fond of the term Baal much either, and both are at times given similar descriptions and attributes, which academics suppose is YHWH taking on and absorbing or appropriating terminology typically popular among Baal Hadad Storm God Cultists.
Some people (in my view, stupidly) argue that the term "God" is "for a pagan God" and other inane things paranoids and control freaks tend to say, when that is not the intention of most people at all when they are simply saying "God", and most people are meaning to refer to "The All-Powerful God that can answer prayers and perform miracles" and usually aren't (I would hope) even thinking of Jesus (man-form) when they say this.
God, the word, supposedly comes from a word meaning Invoked, and so God is truly and undeniably "The Invoked".