Sabbath 2/12/36/120

Dear Friends,

We have seen the most extraordinary comments made recently regarding Yahovah being the name of the One True God as well as the most uninformed comments regarding the root of the words. It is important that we all understand this topic and the origin and meaning of this name and the variations on this name.

Where did this name originate as an explanatory identification text? It was used by the Patriarchs but was explained in its full meaning to Moses at Exodus 3:14.

In Exodus 3:14 it is listed as " 'eyeh 'asher 'eyeh" or "I will be what I will become". Christ said, as the Angel of Yahovah, that Moses was to say that 'eyeh sent him. He did not say "I am" sent you. He said "I will be sent you." This was a mistranslation again by the Trinitarians to cover up the plan of God.

This text shows that God is becoming something. That transition is that He is moving to create from Eloah as the One True God in the singular to become Elohim as the One True God and as centre of the entire elohim or sons of God. Through His creation of the extended form of the Spirit, He will become all in all (Eph. 3:6). Thus the assertion that The One True God used the Third person form of the verb as Yahovah is a lie. Moreover there are two forms of the verb making a distinction through the suffixes being Yahovah (SHD 3068) and Yahovih (SHD 3069). Yahovah only refers to the One True God when it is as Yahovah of Hosts. In the basic form referring to the One True God it is as Yahovih (SHD 3069) and only this form is read in Hebrew as elohim. The Yahovah form is used in relation to all of the elohim as the Sons of God and to the Father as Yahovah of Hosts as the Elyon.

What text in the Bible refers to the two entities of Israel both Christ as Yahovah and the Father as Yahovah of Hosts? The text is found in Zechariah 2:1-12. This form is Yahovah Sabbaoth. The lesser Yahovah is actually referred to as Yahovah's oracle (cf Comp. Bible and Bullinger's notes). When Yahovah is used for the One True God it is rendered Yahovah of Hosts.

How do we know that Yahovah and Yahovih are two separate beings and how is the distinction maintained?

The Jews make the distinction completely separate as they read Yahovah as Adonai and Yahovih as Elohim thus making it clear that Adonai as Lord is subordinate to His elohim who is the God or Ha Elohim. This was made so distinct after Messiah that the Sopherim changed Yahovah to Adonai in 134 places in the Hebrew text because the use of Yahovah referred to the subordinate Yahovahs as sons of God.

The JWs do not understand this distinction in the scriptures at all. Otherwise they would not misuse Yahovah as they do.

Yahovah was altered to Adonai by post Temple Jews and Yahovih was read as Elohim to make them distinct. Strong makes these distinctions in the Concordance at the notes to SHD 3068 and 3069.

Yahovah actually refers to any one of the sons of God as elohim who address humans. It is an honorific meaning "He causes to be" and is a title of honour used in reference to a messenger as representative for the One True God.

When Yahovah is used for the One True God it is rendered Yahovah of Hosts.

Jah and Jehovah
How do we know that Yaho was the root form of the word Yahovah and Yahovih and used in its root form it refers to the object of worship at the Temple namely the One True God Eloah?
It should thus be obvious from the preceding that the words Jah and Jehovah have no basis in fact or usage.

The evidence is clear that the root form in the Hebrew is Yaho. The Greek is written by the LXX in translating Yaho. There is no letter J in Hebrew. It is yot which is a Y in English. Yot Hah Vav Hah (YHVH) are the consonants for Yahovah and Yahovih using the ancient texts. Yahweh does not exist as a Hebrew word. The name used for and from the Temple was the Temple of Yaho and we have excavated the texts from the Temple of Yaho at Elephantine referring to themselves in the Aramaic letters both there and at Jerusalem.

The OT text was translated into the Greek by the elders of the LXX and had nothing to do with the Samaritans let alone the Amorites. The IAΩ text used in the LXX is the Greek rendering of the short version of Yaho of the YHVH which is the consonants of the Tetragrammaton.  I of the Greek was often accompanied by an ' and 'I was the equivalent of the Hebrew Yot. The Alpha equated with the a and h and the omega was the equivalent of the long O at the end of Yaho which is the correct name. J was never used in Hebrew or Greek or Latin and only more recently in English. Jah is a fiction of the translators of the Receptus and the word Jehovah is likewise an English mistranslation. Both Jah and Jehovah are mistranslations by Trinitarian translators of the Receptus. We know Yaho is the correct translation because it exists in the LXX as this Greek form and also in the Aramaic as Yaho and to suggest it does not simply ignores the archaeological evidence we have to date.

There are two words used when referring to "He causes to be." These are Yahovah and Yahovih as we see above. In the Receptus the word translated as God is more often one than the other. Rarely is it SHD 3068 Yahovah (e.g. Gen 6:5 where Yahovah saw their wickedness, Ex. 23:17; 34:33). Where it is the object of prayer as the Lord God it is Yahovih (SHD 3069) (cf. Gen. 15:2,8. Deut. 9:26). These are easily identifiable from Strong's word list for God.

The word translated commonly for God is Elohim (SHD 430) or El (SHD 410). The first usage of the singular form of the One True God Eloah appears in Deut. 32:15,17. It is there where Eloah is allocating the nations among the elohim as sons of God. That was why the MT was forged by the Jews to conceal the fact that our elohim of Israel was a son of God.

The function of Eloah as One True God is easily seen from an examination of the 45 occurrences in the Book of Job. He alone is One True God. In Proverbs 30:4 the question is asked to identify the name of the father and identify the son if the person has any understanding. The name of the Father as One True God is then supplied immediately in verse 5 as Eloah. The next five verses from 30:5-9 are used to identify the son as the elohim of Israel in accordance with Psalm 45:6-7.
The texts in the Bible are quite clear that the name for the One True God is Eloah as we see from Deuteronomy 32 and the detailed information in Ezra 4:23-7:26 where it is made perfectly clear that Eloah is the object of worship at the Temple; the Source of the Law; the priesthood serve Him and no other; the artifacts are His used in His worship; the Temple is His and from the Aramaic translated as Yaho as we see from the texts at Elephantine.

In Genesis 18 and 19 there were three Yahovahs that went to Abraham before they went to Lot at Sodom, and then two of them went on to Lot at Sodom. The third Yahovah remained with Abraham. The other two then dealt with Lot and then called down fire on the cities from a fourth Yahovah in heaven. None of these Yahovahs on earth was the One True God. The name does not refer to God unless it is Yahovah of Hosts who is usually referred to as Yahovih (SHD 3069).

The use of Yahovah in relation to the One True God Eloah or Ha Elohim the Elyon as His name is simply ignorance. See the paper Angel of YHVH (No. 024).

As we see above the name given to Moses was not Yahovah at all, but " 'eyeh 'asher 'eyeh" which means "I will be what I will become." As stated above Yahovah is a third person form of the verb derived from this text which means "He causes to be." In other words Eloah the singular One True God is becoming the plurality of the Elohim as its head as Ha Elohim. Most biblical scholars are aware of this distinction as the Oxford Annotated RSV notes.

The Yahovah of Israel is the subordinate elohim of Psalm 45:6-7 which we know as Christ and he was the elohim in the desert at Sinai with Israel as we know from 1 Cor. 10:4.

Christ spoke to Moses at Sinai on behalf of the One True God in Exodus 3:14. Nowhere is it said that God said his name is Yahovah. It is only ever used of the One True God when it refers to Yahovah of Hosts.
The first and primary name of God is Eloah and carries the meaning of The Power. Its significance is that it is singular and admits of no plurality whatsoever.

Yaho used in its root form refers to the object of worship at the Temple namely the One True God Eloah.

It is Eloah that is the father of all the sons of God and to whom the nations are allocated as we see from Deuteronomy 32. Proverbs 30: 4-5 declares it to be His name as the key test of the faith.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General