Jehovah

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Yohoua ^[1]is a medieval era Latin transcription of the Biblical Hebrew name YHWH. Its first known appearance is in a work by Spanish monk Raymundus Martini, in 1278 A.D.

Jehovah is a late medieval era German transcription of the Biblical Hebrew name YHWH.

Iehouah ^[2]is the first English transcription of God's name and is found a small number of times in Tyndale's Pentateuch, which was written in 1530 A.D.
IEHOVAH^[3][in all capital letters] is the English transcription of YHWH that is found four times in the King James Bible of 1611 A.D..
JEHOVAH [in all capital letters] is an English transcription of YHWH that is found four times in an 18th century revision of the King James Bible. The King James Bible which is commonly sold in bookstores, is an 18th century revision of the of King James Bible of 1611 A.D.

The editors of the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon state that YHWH occurs 6518 times in the Masoretic Text. While YHWH occurs 6518 times in the Masoretic Text that underlies the King James Bible, as mentioned above, JEHOVAH [in all capitals letters] only occurs 4 times in current editions of the King James Bible:

[e.g. Exodus 6:3 and Psalm 83:18 and Isaiah 12:2 and Isaiah 26:4]

While in 2006 A.D. the English transcription "Jehovah" is used by many Protestant Christians and by English speaking Jehovah's Witnesses, most modern scholars believe that the English transcription "Jehovah" does not accurately represent God's name in the English language. In addition most modern scholars believe that the vowel pointing of the Hebrew name YeHoWaH , from which the English transcription "Jehovah" is derived, is an incorrect rendering of God's name in Hebrew.

References

^ On page 152 of Gerard Gertoux's book: "The name of God Y.EH.OW.AH which is pronounced as it is written I_EH_OU_AH" is a photo of Latin and Hebrew text [side by side] written by Raynond Martini in 1278 A.D. In the last sentence of the Hebrew text, YHWH can be clearly seen. In the last sentence of the Latin Text, Raymond Martini's Latin Transcription "Yohoua" can be clearly seen.
^ In the 7th paragraph of "Introduction to the Old Testament of the New English Bible",
Sir Godfry Driver wrote:
"The Reformers preferred Jehovah, which first appeared as Iehouah in 1530 A.D., in Tyndale's translation of the Pentateuch (Exodus 6.3), from which it passed into other Protestant Bibles."
^ In a chart labeled "The Bible Compared : Exodus", Exodus 6:3 shows "IEHOVAH" [in all capital letters] in the KJV [1611].

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