Bible Discussion Thread

Coming across the word, "Jehovah," in KJV version, somewhat bothers me; particularly, when I saw the verse Isaiah 26:4 today, on Saturday, March 19.

Is there anyone else who feel the same way or feel strange about this? Just seeing the word reminds me of Jehovah's witnesses. Honestly, I have taken it into practice to not be a part of a denominational group.

I decided to search online and here's the article I found explaining two reasons the word Jehovah shouldn't be in all modern bibles, including KJV. Unfortunately, I'm not authorized to post the link here.

Dear Marie, The name Jehovah or Yahweh are two pronunciations of the name YHWH that God gave to Moses in Exodus 3:14 which means I AM THAT I AM or ever-living, self-existent One. It is not certain how to exactly say the name God spoke to Moses. In Hebrew there (and Greek and Latin) "J" was not a letter in their alphabet. This does not mean that the "j" sound was absent from their language, but the sound was not spelled with a letter "J". I prefer to use the word Yahweh as a pronunciation because of this, but I do think that the first sound in the either word may have been a sound that was a combined JY type of sound (think J-Y-A-Y as the first sound, squishing all these sound together in a breathy way.) But I may be totally wrong on this. Hebrew became a dead language by the time of the birth of Jesus and few really knew how to read or speak it. I think this was so because as a result of the captivities in Babylon of the Judah and Assyria of Israel hundreds of years before Christ's birth. Also, the name YHWH was considered to holy to say or write by the Jews, so they substituted LORD (Adonai) or God (G-d) in place of YHWH in the Tanakh (Hebrew Old Testament).

Yashua or Yeshua are both Hebrew names for the name Jesus (which is Anglicized, I believe). You will find Jesu in used in Spanish speaking people.

God owns all of His revealed names, not any sect or language group. So, we should be happy to use any of these for our Triune God.

Hope this helps.

Hi Marie,

I can offer my opinion. Jehovah is God's name. Psalms 83:18. So, that's unfortunate that you have negative connotations with His name. His name was first by a wide margin and only recently the cult JW used His name. But just because a cult uses His name doesn't mean His name is bad. That would be sad. Lots of deceptive false teachers like to use manipulative names to make what their doing sound less bad and I don't think we should give into it. I like God's name and I wont let some small group of false teachers to prevent me using God's proper name. That is my opinion. God bless.

Thanks for the comment. I was also curious where the name Jehovah really originated, too. I've read that Yahshua is a Hebrew name. So I'm also curious about this.