Yahweh

Exegete

This particular name for God is called the tetragrammaton because it takes the four letters of God’s name and adds filler vowels to make sounds.

The hebrews wouldnt use this name because it was holy so they used the named Adonay or “Lord”

Jehoviah comes when they take the tetragrammaton and add the vowels from Adonai to create a new word. Older bible translations in English used this word a lot.

ESV uses the following:

Yahweh = LORD

Adonay = Lord

Jehovah = the Lord GOD

Elohim = God (this is not a personal name for God just a generic term)

(p. IX Preface in ESV black leather bible I use for preaching)

The lesson here is that maybe we dont take the word Yahweh serious enough? How personal was this phrase Yahweh?

Strongs Concordance 3068 - Yhwh or Yahweh

also listed is 3363 and 3378

Naves topical bible says that we find out by his name of (i am who i am) that “its an eternal covenant name implying self-existence and saving presence” (p. 1099 Naves topical bible)

I am who I am

Exodus 3:14–15 ESV

14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.

Exodus 6:3 ESV

3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them.

Exodus 20:7 ESV

7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Numbers 6:22–27 ESV

22 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 23 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them, 24 The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. 27 “So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”

Deuteronomy 6:4–9 (ESV)

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.