The Name of God
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 9:57 pm
I have a question about the Tetregrammaton. In Isaiah 12:2 it says "The LORD, the LORD is my strength and my song." I had always understood "LORD" to be used for YHWH, of forgotten pronunciation. However, NIV study bible I use says that the first LORD is "Yah" and the second is "Yahweh". Is Yah used elsewhere as the name of God? Do modern translations distinguish between the two? In this bible, in this verse, they don't.
I also wonder about the lost pronunciation. Have we lost the pronunciation for all the ancient hebrew? That doesn't seem likely since the reason for the lost pronunciation is always given that it was too sacred to pronounce. But I thought the name was just a form of the verb "to be." Didn't the ancient hebrews still need to use the verb in normal conversation? And if they avoided that one form, couldn't it be readily inferred by normal conjugation?
Thanks for any light you can shed on this. I'm actually a little bit embarrassed to be asking this as it seems a bit nit-picky and irrelevant to abiding in Him.
I also wonder about the lost pronunciation. Have we lost the pronunciation for all the ancient hebrew? That doesn't seem likely since the reason for the lost pronunciation is always given that it was too sacred to pronounce. But I thought the name was just a form of the verb "to be." Didn't the ancient hebrews still need to use the verb in normal conversation? And if they avoided that one form, couldn't it be readily inferred by normal conjugation?
Thanks for any light you can shed on this. I'm actually a little bit embarrassed to be asking this as it seems a bit nit-picky and irrelevant to abiding in Him.