The true Name of God

[dan.pine]

YHWH basically means ‘to cause to breathe.’ YHWH gives life through His breath.

The name YHWH existed more than 1000+ years before any known nations were established, however, many nations knew of the god named YHWH and seem to have adopted the name into their arsenal of gods.

The pronunciation is done with an exhaling breath, as all the letters are actually vowels…
ee- eh- oo- eh- (Yeh-weh, or yeh-oo-eh)

Do you have any links for the History of YHWH as you’ve posted here. I find it very interesting. The things you’ve written make a lot of sense to me as an Orthodox Christian because in our tradition we talk about how parts of the truth of God are found in all religions due to the fact that all ancient religions would have been derived from the true faith of God before being perverted by Satan. You can see that happening with Caine and Abel. This view makes the most sense to me as a Christian and that stands in sharp contrast to the world’s historical view that attempts to paint the Jewish/Christian faith as being birthed out of the pagan religions of their time. Like the Creator was somehow second on the scene following Satan.

As far as the names of God, Israel’s fear of breaking the third commandment and the use of LORD instead, and all of the conversation surrounding the various meanings of God’s names etc. Those names really are more in line of revelations of who God is in a given situation towards His people as they grow and mature vs a name as we experience as humans. So as they mature and are able to handle more knowledge and relationship with God we see the name sort of evolve with the people’s understanding. Some takeaways that may help. Jesus says no man knows the Father but the Son. No one has ever seen the Father and that the Father is Spirit. Jesus also describes Himself as I AM in the Gospels, and The Almighty in Revelation. St. Paul talks about how everything was made through Christ and for Christ in Colossians and St. John describes how the Word of God (The Law of Moses and thus the Lawgiver) became flesh. Jesus talks about being Abraham’s friend and knowing him closely. So Jesus is also the LORD and all of the other names of God in the OT. Jesus (God is Salvation) is the fullest revelation of God to date and thus the most proper name as far as I understand things. Then add onto that the Father as the One that begot the Son and from Whom the Holy Spirit proceeds and we get the Trinitarian understanding to date. Without verification, I seem to remember Revelation saying something about His name after final judgement as being unknown to man, but don’t quote me on that.

 

[AKAE777]

We know the Jews or more accurately the Israelite consider the tetragrammaton YHWH to be the actual name of God. So much so they do not use it in conversation replacing it with words such as Adonai and HaShem. This practise inevitability cause the actual pronunciation of the word to be lost. Today the words Yahweh & Jehovah derived from YHWH are just approximation of the actual pronunciation.

While it's a interesting topic in and of itself, my main question lies in who is Yahweh? Firstly I'm no theologian so if I misunderstood anything please correct me.

So who is Yahweh? Is he the self-existence God that proceeded all and the later usage of His name by the Canaanite for their weather deity is co-opted from the Israelite. Or is it the other way around where the Israelite co-opted the name Yahweh from the Canaanite to reference God as they know not what to call God?

If Yahweh is the God of the Israelite why doesn't Moses know Yahweh's name? Even if Moses is not raised amongst the Israelite the name of their God should be well known enough. And why when asked God only say tell Moses "I'm who I'm" (Ayer Asher Ayer) and not just say "Yahweh"?

If Yahweh like El is but of a title/label from the regional language and not a name then YHWH is nothing but a normal word. It holds not significant like the modern word of Lord. By extension the Jews and some Christians veneration of YHWH(Yahweh/Jehovah) as the name of God to be wrong and meaningless as well.

Can someone with better understanding in this matter help me?

Yahuah is the Old English spelling, and Yahwah is Modern English spelling of God's name.
In 1525, Sir William Tyndale a Protestant Reformer invented the name Jesus.
Christ name is Yahshua.

Exodus 23:21
Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.

John 17:11
I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one.

 

[AKAE777]

Yah (Hebrew: יהּ‎‎ Yah) is a short form of Yahwah. The short form of the name occurs 50 times in the text of the Hebrew Bible, of which 24 form part of the phrase "Halleluyah".