YHWH St. Paul’s Chapel (Episc.) Landmark

 

 

 

 

 

 

St. Paul's Chapel 

The Tetragrammaton, the Four Letters, the Hashem, the Name, "YHWH", is part of the decor of St. Paul's Chapel. Source 

YHWH in Early USA

What I've read/heard is that on the day of George Washington's Presidential Inauguration, a Bible could not be found, so he and both houses of Congress up-and-went across the street to St. Paul's Chapel, and that Washington worshiped at this assembly for two years. You can google for more info, but as an example of what you'll find, here's a blurb from http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/LM065.htm:

 

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The Sacred name Volume I

A scriptural Study by Qadesh La Yahweh Press and R. Clover

Woe to you, experts in the Torah (Scriptures), for you took away the key of knowledge; yourselves did not enter, and those who were entering you hindered. Luke 11:52 

This "key," as our investigation shall demonstrate, was the knowledge and use of the Creator's personal name--the sacred name YHWH. 

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Yahweh

'Yahweh,' the Tetragrammaton (as introduced in yesterday's post), is composed of:

Yod

-Yod or yud was anciently portrayed as a symbol of a hand [yad in Hebrew]. This is the entire hand, or closed hand [in contrast with the letter kaf, which comes from the pictograph of the palm of the hand]. The closed hand denotes power and, figuratively, ownership.
-Yod is masculine. In the sacred name Yahweh, it is representative of the Father.
-Yod is the seminal letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It cannot be divided into component parts, like other letters can. It signifies the oneness of Elohim.
-The yod is the smallest [and most humble] letter. From it, the other letters originate. It is symbolic of creation.

Hey

-The letter hey is feminine, and represents femininity and gentleness. The first hey in the Name is representative of the Mother / Holy Spirit / Eloah.
-Hey means ‘behold’, ‘to show’ or ‘to reveal’.

Vav

-Vav is also masculine in gender.
-Vav signifies a nail, peg, or hook. It also conveys the meaning of being nailed or bound together.
-The numerical value of vav is 6.

They are pronounced, in Hebrew, "Yod Hey Vav Hey," when you read them in the Hebrew manner from right to left.


The four letters in God's name in Hebrew have the following meanings:

Hey = Behold

Vav = Nail

Yod = Closed Hand

When read in English from left to right, it says:

"BEHOLD THE NAIL, BEHOLD THE HAND!"
Or, "Behold the nailed hand."

"And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." (Zechariah 12:10)

"Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet." (Psalm 22:16)

"Clearly, this is no ordinary, every-day name. But wait, there's more: Yahushua (often Yeshua or Yahshua, the Hebrew name of Jesus, similar to Joshua), the Hebrew name of the Messiah, the son of Yahweh, means "YHWH is salvation." Therefore, you can take that a step further and see it as "Behold, the nailed hand is salvation." This not only powerfully illustrates Yahushua's role as Savior, but also His divinity (as Yahweh incarnate) and His relationship to Yahweh as His only begotten son. As Yahushua Himself said, "I have come in my Father's name (John 5:43)." Just as His life and character point us to His Father (John 14:6 - "no one comes to the Father but by me;" see also John 17:23-26), so also does His name point us to the sacred Name of Yahweh. He even instructed us to pray: "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name . . . (Luke 11:2)."

You have no doubt heard most or all of the following descriptive terms and/or titles that have often been applied to Yahweh: El (meaning "mighty one,"), Elohim (the plural form of El), El Shaddai ("almighty one"), and Adonai ("my lord"), among others. While those words, like the commonly used English terms "Lord" and "God," can certainly express different aspects of the character of Yahweh, they are merely generic titles and descriptions. None of them is His Name.

When the Scriptures were being transcribed, it was believed by the Jewish scribes performing the task that they should not pronounce the sacred Name of YHWH, for fear of violating the third commandment ("Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain . . . " - Exodus 20:7). This led to the use of other words, generic titles (such as "Adonai"), as substitutes for the true name, Yahweh. Therefore, if you were to compare a typical, modern English translation of the Bible with the original Hebrew texts, you would see how YHWH (which can be found a total of 7,038 times in the original Hebrew Old Testament) was replaced by "the Lord" or "God."

The form Jehovah did not exist as a Hebrew word. It is actually a conflation (blend, fusion) of two Hebrew forms that came about through a peculiarity of the Hebrew writing system. The Hebrew name for God, the consonants of which are transliterated YHWH, was considered so sacred that it was never pronounced and its proper vowel points were never written. In some texts the vowel points for a completely different word, Adonai, "lord," were written with YHWH to indicate that the word Adonai was to be spoken whenever the reader came upon the word YHWH. YHWH was never intended to be pronounced with the vowels of Adonai, but Christian scholars of the Renaissance made exactly that mistake, and the forms Iehovah (using the classical Latin equivalents of the Hebrew letters) and Jehovah (substituting in English, J for consonantal I) came into common use.

A New Standard Bible Dictionary (1936 edition) states, "The form 'Jehovah' is impossible, according to the strict principles of Hebrew vocalization."

So, it is clearly no secret that Jehovah is not the true Name of our God. But don't worry - this doesn't mean that the wonderful suffixes normally attached to Jehovah (as in Jehovah Jireh, Rapha, Nissi, etc.) are also wrong. Those transliterations are for the most part correct, and when added to the name Yahweh (as in "Yahweh Yireh" - "Yahweh the Provider"), they can serve as powerful expressions of certain attributes and characteristics of our Lord Yahweh."

You might reply, "So what? Who cares what the exact Name may or may not be? Why should it matter?"

"When someone begins a relationship with you, one of the first things they learn is your name. As the relationship develops, they begin to learn more and more of your character, and eventually, if they want to, they will know you very well and will be devoted to your relationship. However, the relationship would most likely not last very long if they kept referring to you as "man" or "woman," "sir" or "madam." Such a thing would keep a certain amount of distance between the two of you, and would surely not be a good way to create and maintain intimacy and love.

They might tell you over and over again that they love you dearly, but would you really believe them if they kept addressing you by an impersonal title or description? The same applies to our relationship with our wonderful Creator, Yahweh. To continually apply generic terms like "Lord" and "God" to Him would be like a husband constantly calling his spouse "Wife" or "Woman."

I'm not saying that its wrong to refer to Yahweh as 'God' or 'Lord.' But, for a Christian who wants to increase their intimate relationship with their Lord, shouldn't you want to learn more about His Name (as well as other biblical references to Him) and what it means?


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Syncretism in Christianity

Nascent Christianity appears to have incorporated many European Pagan cultural elements, "baptizing" or "Christianizing" them to conform with Christian belief and principles, at least partially, through discarding theologically or morally incompatible elements. One example of this is the strong connection between the thought of St. Augustine and Neoplatonic thought, and St. Thomas Aquinas' many citations of "The Philosopher" by Aristotle. Many scholars agree to this syncretism in principle, though any specific example is likely to be labeled "controversial". Open Theists (a subset of Protestant Evangelicals) assert that Christianity by the 3rd and 4th centuries had incorporated Greek Philosophy into its understanding of God.

"Syncretism" was not on the table when Christianity split into eastern and western rites during the Great Schism. It was invoked however with the rifts of the Protestant Reformation, with Desiderius Erasmus's readings of Plutarch. In 1615 David Pareus of Heidelberg urged Christians to a "pious syncretism"^{[citation needed]} in opposing the Antichrist, but few 17th century Protestants discussed the compromises that might affect a reconciliation with the Catholic Church: the Lutheran Georg Calisen "Calixtus" (1586-1656) of Helmstedt School was opposed by Johann Hülsemann, Johann Georg Dorsche and Abraham Calovius (1612-1685) for his "syncretism".[1] (See: Syncretistic Strife)

The modern celebrations of Christmas (as celebrated in the northern European tradition, originating from Pagan Yule holidays), Easter and Halloween are examples of relatively late Christian syncretism. Earlier, the elevation of Christmas as an important holiday largely grew out of a need to replace the Saturnalia, a popular December festival of the Roman Empire. Roman Catholicism in Central and South America has also integrated a number of elements derived from indigenous and slave cultures in those areas (see the Caribbean and modern sections); while many African Initiated Churches demonstrate an integration of Christian and traditional African beliefs. In Asia the revolutionary movements of Taiping (19th-century China) and God's Army (Karen in the 1990s) have blended Christianity and traditional beliefs.

Syncretism can be contrasted with contextualization or inculturation, the practice of making Christianity relevant to a culture.

 

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THE KEY TO PRONOUNCING GOD'S NAME

the Tetragrammaton is composed of four
Hebrew consonants - YHVH or YHWH ().

Hebrew is read from right to left.

When the vowel points are added to these four
consonants, the word is pronounced literally as Yehovah,
or the Anglicized form, Jehovah. This is the straightforward
pronunciation with the vowels.

To determine the correct pronounciation of the
Divine Name of God, using the Hebrew Tetragram,
"Carr used a computer to sift through all the relevant
vowel/consonant combinations found in Hebrew scripture.
The computer eventually narrowed the list to 'e' 'o'
and 'a' or YeHoWaH (Jehovah in English)."
--The Daily Breeze

Many biblical names Started with the Tetragram,
and give insite as to how we would pronounce
The Great Divine Name of God.

The following Chart shows us some of these examples :

Chart provided by :
Christian Ginsburg, Introduction To
the Massoretico-Critical Edition
Of The Hebrew Bible, p 369.

Thus we see by the chart above
that the beginning letters of the tetragram
are pronounced in english as JEHO -

Thus, it is clear how the ancient Jews viewed
the correct pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton,
for without exception the first two syllables in the
above names are identical in pronunciation to the
traditional pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.
We thus find in Hebrew : "Yehovah" and in English : "Jehovah"

"Yehova, which was in agreement with
the beginning of all the theophoric names,
was the authentic pronunciation..."
(Yehovah in Hebrew = Jehovah in English)
- Paul Drach;
De l'harmonie entre l'église et la synagogue
(Of the Harmony between the Church and the Synagogue)
published in 1842

Thus, the Hebrew
"ye-ru-sha-LA-yim" became "Jerusalem";
"ye-ri-HO" became "Jericho";
and "yar-DEN" become "Jordan".
Hebrew personal names such as
"yo-NA" became "Jonah",
"yi-SHAI" became "Jesse"
and "ye-SHU-a" became "Jesus".

Likewise
"Yehowah" became "Jehovah" in english.

DO YOU SEE THE PATTERN ?

"Jehovah is simply the form that conforms to normal
English usage with respect to Hebrew names in the Bible.
For example, in Hebrew, the name “Isaiah” was probably
pronounced “Yeshayahu.” Similarly the English “Jerusalem”
was, in Hebrew, pronounced “Yerushalaim.” “Jesus” was
pronounced “Yeshua” or “Yehohshua”. The names Isaiah,
Jerusalem and Jesus, were not the original Hebrew or
Greek pronunciations. It is normal and proper for names
to take on different pronunciations when they are
transferred into another language. In Hebrew, God’s name
was likely pronounced “Yehowah,” in Spanish it is Jehová
(pronounced: ‘he-o-vá’), in English we say “Jehovah.”
-The Divine Name of God;
Pursuit of Scriptural Truth
Home Christians.net

WHAT DO THE SCHOLARS SAY
ABOUT THE PRONOUNCIATION
OF GOD'S NAME ?

"That mystic name which is called
the Tetragrammaton...is pronounced JEHOVAH
(Iehovah), which means, Who is, and who shall be."
-Nicetas, Bishop of Heraclea, 2nd century,
From The Catena On The Pentateuch,
Published In Latin
By Francis Zephyrus, P 146

"The oldest archeological testimony
favors the pronunciation Jehovah.
A short inscription dated of the time of
Amenophis III (circa 1400 BCE)
has been found at Soleb..."
-M. Gérard GERTOUX; a Hebrew scholar,
specialist of the Tetragram;
president of the Association Biblique
de Recherche d'Anciens Manuscrits

"According to postings on various forums, it has been
stated that both Emanuel and Nehemiah Gordon believe
that the Name of God is closer to Yehowah, which is
similar to Jehovah in English. Nehemiah Gordon...
defends Yehovah after extensive study of the Masoretic
Text manuscripts. Nehemiah's view...based on studying
the actual manuscripts under Emanuel Tov, is that...
the earlier Masoretic manuscripts all have a Yehowah
or Yehovah pronounciation..."
- Seek God Association
(Michael John Rood: Messianic Karaite Rabbi)

"As a follower of Christ,
Peter used Gods name, Jehovah.
When Peters speech was put on record
the Tetragrammaton (YHWH / Jehovah) was here used
according to the practice during the first
century B.C.E. and the first century C.E."
- Paul Kahle; Studia Evangelica, edited by Kurt Aland,
F. L. Cross, Jean Danielou, Harald Riesenfeld
and W. C. van Unnik, Berlin, 1959, p. 614
(See App 1C §1.)

YEHOVAH FAVORED OVER YAHWEH

"non-superstitious Jewish translators always favored
the name Jehovah in their translations of the Bible.
On the other hand one can note that there is NO Jewish
translation of the Bible with Yahweh."
-M. Gérard GERTOUX; a Hebrew scholar,
specialist of the Tetragram; president of the
Association Biblique de Recherche d'Anciens Manuscrits

"Concerted effort has been underway for the past
several generations to alter the pronunciation of
the Divine Name, known as the Tetragrammaton,
from Jehovah into the Egyptian slur, Yahweh.
In spite of these efforts, there is compelling evidence
to stick with the traditional pronunciation."
--LambLion; by Scott Jones

"Actually, there is a problem with the
pronunciation Yahweh. It is a strange
combination of old and late elements."
-Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
(TWOT)

"The pronunciation of yhwh as Yahweh
is a scholarly guess."
-Anchor Bible Dictionary, VI-1011.

"The great name YHWH is vocalized
as "Yehowah" in Hebrew...(Jehovah in English)
In the same way, as there were theophoric names
elaborated from the great name, that is names
beginning with Yehô- or its shortened form Y(eh)ô-, ...
The Hebrews took care of making either their names begin
with Yehô- or Yô-, or to end their names with -yah,
theophoric names like: Joshua, Jonathan, Jesus, John, etc."
For example, the name YHWHNN (John) is vocalized
Yehôha-nan in Hebrew."
- M. Gérard GERTOUX; a Hebrew scholar,
specialist of the Tetragram;
president of the Association Biblique
de Recherche d'Anciens Manuscrits

"The tetragrammaton, YHWH, is therefore read
I-eH-U-A (Iehoua), the equivalent of "YeHoWaH"
in Masoretic punctuation. This means that the name
is to be pronounced as it is written, or according
to its letters."
- (Won W. Lee professor at the Calvin College)
published in the Religious Studies Review
Volume 29 Number 3 July 2003 page 285.

"There is some evidence that the Tetragrammaton,
the Divine Name, (Jehovah), Appeared in some
or all of the OT (Old Testament) quotations in the
NT (New Testament) when the NT documents
were first penned."
- The ANCHOR BIBLE DICTIONARY
Volume 6 Si-Z Pages 392-393

"Numerous linguists have postulated that...this name
was pronounced Yehowah in the first century..."
-M. Gérard GERTOUX; a Hebrew scholar,
specialist of the Tetragram; president of the
Association Biblique de Recherche d'Anciens Manuscrits

"We have objective manuscript evidence
to support placement of the sacred name
(Jehovah) into the NT (New Testament) text,
the era of guesswork is over."
- A Collection of Evidence Supporting
Original Hebrew-Aramaic New Testament
by James Trimm - Chapter 4

"The Jewish scholars known as Massoretes
introduced a system of vowels and accents...
In this way the Tetragrammaton became Ye-Ho-VaH
and later on, in Western languages, Jehovah..."
- B.9.2: The Biblical Background;
Gilles C H Nullens

"Yehovah - pronounced {yeh-ho-vaw'} -
is the correct Hebrew rendering. "
-Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible

Religious authorities favor the name Ye.ho.va.
Additionally non-superstitious Jewish translators always
favored the name Jehovah in their translations of the Bible.
On the other hand - there is NO Jewish translation of the
Bible with the name Yahweh.

See the chart below for examples :

NAME OF VERSION (JEWISH)	TONGUE	PUBLISHED IN:	DIVINE NAME RENDERED
Immanuel Tremellius	Latin	1579	Jehova
Baruch Spinoza	Latin	1670	Jehova*
Samuel Cahen	French	1836	Iehovah
Alexander Harkavy	English	1936	Jehovah**
Joseph Magil (see below)	English	1910	Jehovah
Rabbi L. Golschmidt (see below)	German	1921	Yehovah

"Non-Superstitious Jewish translators always favored
the name Jehovah in their translations of the Bible.
On the other hand one can note that there is NO Jewish
translation of the Bible with Yahweh."
-M. Gérard GERTOUX; a Hebrew scholar,
specialist of the Tetragram; president of the
Association Biblique de Recherche d'Anciens Manuscrits


TWO SYLLABLES OR THREE ?

YAHWEH = (2 syllables)

YEHOWAH = (3 syllables)


Concerning the tetragrammaton in favor
of the Hebrew name "Yehowah" (English-Jehovah)
"The original form of the divine name
was almost certainly three syllables, NOT two.
The accumulated data points heavily in the
direction of a "three" syllable word."
- George W. Buchanan,
"Some Unfinished Business
With the Dead Sea Scrolls,"
RevQ 13.49-52 (1988), 416

"When the Tetragrammaton was pronounced...
it was pronounced in "three" syllables
and it would have been 'Yahowah' "
- George W. Buchanan,
"How God's Name Was Pronounced,"
BAR 21.2 (March-April 1995), 31-32

"Many scholars believe...that it is more likely that
the Divine name was originally pronounced
in a three syllable form, ‘Yeh×o×wah.’ -
‘Jehovah’ is the English form of the divine name."
-The Divine Name of God;
Pursuit of Scriptural Truth
Home Christians.net

Poetry Confirms 3 Syllables

"In fact, from the evidence now available,
it may be argued that Yahweh is incorrect
and Jahoweh might be the true pronunciation."
-(The Law and the Prophets,pp. 215-224,
edited by John H. Skilton, Milton C. Fisher,
and Leslie W. Sloat).


"Samaritan poetry employs the Tetragrammaton
and then rhymes it with words having the same
sound as Yah-oo-ay (three syllables)."
-(Journal of Biblical Literature, 25, p.50
and Jewish Encyclopedia, vol.9, p.161).

"in the syllable division of the divine name
it would have ended up as Jahoweh,
a form...remarkably like the...form Jehovah"
-Laird Harris; The Pronunciation of the Tetragram,
in The Law and the Prophets: Old Testament Studies
Prepared in Honor of Oswald Thompson Allis,
ed. John H. Skilton
(Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian
and Reformed Publishing, 1974), pgs 218-224

"Thus the form Yahweh is an incorrect
hybrid form with an early 'w' and a late 'eh'. "
-The Law and the Prophets,
ed. by John H. Skilton,
Milton C. Fisher, and Leslie W. Sloat

PRONOUNCING GOD'S NAME

PRONOUNCING GOD'S NAME

"Y" = "J"

Many biblical names Started with the Tetragram,
and give insite as to how we would pronounce
The Great Divine Name of God in English.

The Hebrew is read from right to left.

The following Chart shows us some of these examples :



Chart provided by :
Christian Ginsburg, Introduction To
the Massoretico-Critical Edition
Of The Hebrew Bible, p 369.
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THE BOTTOM LINE -

"the pronunciation of YHWH
is an academic matter and the God of Israel
is more interested in our personal relationship
to Him rather than the pronunciation of his name. "

"What should be obvious in all this
is that the pronunciation of YHWH
is an academic matter and the God of Israel
is more interested in our personal relationship
to Him rather than the pronunciation of his name."
-(The Law and the Prophets,pp. 215-224,
edited by John H. Skilton, Milton C. Fisher,
and Leslie W. Sloat).

God's Name -
It's Meaning and Pronunciation
(click-here).......

Is "LORD" an equivalent
for JEHOVAH ???
(click-here).......

 

 

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You can be a great designer, but if you don't have any idea how to build something, or market something, then it doesn't matter. And vice versa. So, a lot of different people show up from big companies and small companies. At our workshop in Seattle, people from Microsoft and Amazon showed up, but we also had owners of small companies with just one or two people who want to build a product. They wanted to gain some insight from how we did it.

Our whole thing is about making big things happen with small teams. You don't need all these layers of red tape and bureaucracy and formal process to get things done. In fact, being smaller has its advantages, and we talk a lot about that. In some ways it's an inspirational talk, and in other ways it's a very practical, real talk about how we did it and how you can apply some of these principles to your own process.

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Joe Kraus from JotSpot has a great piece on how the last ten years has reduced the price of doing a startup from three million to a hundred thousand dollars for him. That’s definitely an interesting development and Joe is highlighting the right trends. But since Joe is coming from a company launched on angels and running on VC ($5,2 million, no less), his side is only one side of the story.

As part of a debt-free company that didn’t need angels to launch and is operating on revenues instead of VC, I naturally have a somewhat different perspective. I think the most interesting change in this economy is what can be done with little or no explicit investment at all. The products that emerge from the constraints of prior commitments. Like being a student, working for clients, or being just a regular old employee.

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Beliefnet gathers $7M round
by Lesley Pink Posted 29, Jun 2005

Beliefnet Inc. didn't look to the heavens for its latest round of funding, but rising spirituality across the country did help the multifaith online media company land $7 million in new venture capital in a funding led by the Boston office of Softbank Capital.

The funding comes almost three years after the New York-based company exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the help of angel investors. Blue Chip Venture Co. of Cincinnati led two venture rounds totaling $1 million in 2002 and also participated in the Softbank-led round.

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