The Tetragrammaton in Paleo-Hebrew, Aramaic and modern Hebrew scripts. It became a tradition wherefore not to pronounce it, until eventually the pronunciation was lost.īelow is the Tetragrammaton shown in three different scripts. Due to the commandment of God to Israel that whosoever uses the name of God in vain shall not be held guiltless, the Jews considered the name too sacred to be uttered. The name of God is represented by four consonants, known as the Tetragrammaton: Yod, He, Vav, He.
The product of their work is known today as the Masoretic Text.Įven the name of God in Hebrew could not be pronounced by scholars, Bro.
Of the several systems of vowel notation that were developed, the most expansive was that of the Masoretes. The Hebrew alphabet is an abjad, a type of writing system having letters that represent consonants only the reader must supply the appropriate vowel. The reason for devising these systems is because scholars could not pronounce some of the Hebrew text. All types of niqqud are not indicated in Hebrew writing. They organized a system of pronunciation and grammatical guides in the form of distinguishing marks to identify vowel points of the Old Testament.Ī vowel notation system for Hebrew is known as niqqud. These scholars attempted to put in order the pronunciation, paragraph, verse divisions and cantillation (ritual chantings) of the Hebrew Bible. They worked during The Middle Ages, between the 7th and 11th centuries. The Masoretes were groups of scribes and Bible scholars based primarily in Israel. The word Jehovah only emerged due to the Masoretes. Not even Moses knew Jehovah neither Apostle Paul. The name Jehovah is unknown to all the ancients, whether Jews or Christians. Only modern biblical translators formed Jehovah, Bro. Hence some moderns have framed the name of Jehovah, unknown to all the ancients, whether Jews or Christians for the true pronunciation of the name, which is in Hebrew text, by long disuse is now quite lost. The name Jehovah was just invented by translators of the Bible.įrom the principal doctrinal handbook of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, “Reasoning From the Scriptures”, published in 1985, on page 192, it says – Hence, it is impossible for the name of God to be Jehovah. The table below shows the Hebrew alphabet known as the ketav Ashurit or classical Hebrew script with the normal and final forms, the name of each letter and its transliteration for English. The Hebrew alphabet is composed of 22 letters five of these letters (kaf, mem, nun, fe and tzadi) have a different form known as the final form (sofit) when they appear as the last letter in a word. It has since undergone changes, but its major characteristics have been retained to this today. According to Wikipedia, Hebrews and Arameans borrowed the Phoenician alphabet during the end of the 2nd millennium BCE (Before the Christian Era) thus, the Hebrew alphabet is almost identical to the Aramaic alphabet in the number and order of letters, names and phonetic values.ĭuring the late second and first millennia BCE, the old Hebrew script was developed. The Hebrew and Aramaic scripts were offshoots of the Phoenician script. How can it be that Jehovah is the name of God? In Hebrew, however, there is no letter J, neither in Aramaic. The Jewish Bible, or the Old Testament, was written mostly in Hebrew and a few parts in Aramaic. Soriano is Presiding Minister of the Members Church of God, International.Īccording to scholars, the Bible was written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Eli Soriano, dubbed as “The Only Sensible Preacher of Our Time,” to one of the inquirers in his worldwide Bible Exposition held Novemin the Philippines. It is impossible.” This was the answer of Bro. “It is not true that the name of God is Jehovah.
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