Meaning of Yahweh

[lynna]

Do you know what the meaning of God's name is? Is it the name we "pronounce" when we breathe? Yah (inhale) weh (exhale).

 

[CherubRam]

Do you know what the meaning of God's name is? Is it the name we "pronounce" when we breathe? Yah (inhale) weh (exhale).

The derivation of Yahwah from the ancient Semitic words HaYah and HaWah.
HaYah means “The Life or The Living.” HaWah means “The Beginning or The happening.” This is a partial list of words associated HaWah: Be, is, was, became, happened and appeared. Yahwah means "Life Began."

 

[yonah_mishael]

Cherub, you're confusing between hayah (הי&#1492 "he was" and chayah (חי&#1492 "he lived." There is a difference between ה (heh) and ח (chet).

Yahweh doesn't mean "life began," which would be החלו החיים hechelu hachayim.

 

[CherubRam]

Cherub, you're confusing between hayah (הי&#1492 "he was" and chayah (חי&#1492 "he lived." There is a difference between ה (heh) and ח (chet).

Yahweh doesn't mean "life began," which would be החלו החיים hechelu hachayim.

Your explanation is correct for modern Hebrew. Remember, the Rabbi's changed the Hebrew language to conceal God's name.

Biblical Hebrew.
From NIV Exhaustive Concordance.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Do you know what the meaning of God's name is? Is it the name we "pronounce" when we breathe? Yah (inhale) weh (exhale).

I heard that story about Yahweh being spoken by every breath that every person takes too but it is a fiction. Any two syllable word could be construed to be the inhale-exhale of a breath; for example Je-sus, Si-mon, Pe-ter, Jo-Seph.

The meaning of the name Yahweh is reckoned to be "I am" by some and others use a longer phrase to express a similar idea. Jehovah's witnesses claim it means "I will prove to be what I will prove to be". In the end those explanation are educated guesses based on root words that are related to or are similar to the tetragrammaton (YHWH using Latin letters). In the new testament we are told that God's name is holy, perhaps it is best to think of who God is more than what pronounceable name he may have?

 

[cyberlizard]

i've hard rammel like this (the idea in the OP) before originally from the Rob Bell camp.


Steve

 

[Lulav]

Do you know what the meaning of God's name is? Is it the name we "pronounce" when we breathe? Yah (inhale) weh (exhale).

Like when G-d changed Abrams name to Abraham? adding part of his name to Abe's? Or from Sarai to Sarah?

These are musings, the sages also muses over these things but we have no hard evidence of this being G-ds thinking. Someday perhaps he will explain it all to us. But until then we have enough to ponder like how can we put G-ds teaching into another ones life by our example?

 

[yonah_mishael]

Your explanation is correct for modern Hebrew. Remember, the Rabbi's changed the Hebrew language to conceal God's name.

Poppycock.

 

[Hoshiyya]

It's related to a root-word meaning to exist. That's the best and simplest answer.
Does it mean "the Existing One" ? No, but it is probably one of the closest answers, maybe the closest approximation you can get in English.

More important than the linguistic aspects are the spiritual aspects of religion. Knowing Hashem and being a Linguist are two different (though not contradictory) things.

 

[CherubRam]

Poppycock.

Feel free anytime now to share your findings as to what the name means. We are waiting for your answer.

 

[AbbaLove]

Do you know what the meaning of God's name is? Is it the name we "pronounce" when we breathe? Yah (inhale) weh (exhale).

You can find out everything you want to know and then some by Googling ...
The Meaning of Ehyeh asher Ehyeh

Of course it's always GD to do comparative WRD study. For me the reality of Yahweh is found in His Torah (teaching). By reality i'm referring to what mankind has asked from time immemorial, "What is my purpose/destiny?" We all have sufficient skills, gifts, talents. Just follow the desires that Yahweh has placed in your heart using the abilities that He is developing in YU. Stay on the straight path, and if YU get sidetracked get back on the right path as soon as possible.

The following scripture isn't rocket science and there isn't one translation that's significantly better than another. Even The Message communicates adequately Yahweh's message just as well as another translation (paraphrased or not). These twenty verses are just as relevant and applicable today as they were when Israel was given the Terms of the Covenant that Yahweh commanded Moses to tell the people.

Dueteronomy 30:1-20 (MSG)

1-5 Here’s what will happen. While you’re out among the nations where God has dispersed you and the blessings and curses come in just the way I have set them before you, and you and your children take them seriously and come back to God, your God, and obey him with your whole heart and soul according to everything that I command you today, God, your God, will restore everything you lost; he’ll have compassion on you; he’ll come back and pick up the pieces from all the places where you were scattered. No matter how far away you end up, God, your God, will get you out of there and bring you back to the land your ancestors once possessed. It will be yours again. He will give you a good life and make you more numerous than your ancestors.

6-7God, your God, will cut away the thick calluses on your heart and your children’s hearts, freeing you to love God, your God, with your whole heart and soul and live, really live. God, your God, will put all these curses on your enemies who hated you and were out to get you.

8-9 And you will make a new start, listening obediently to God, keeping all his commandments that I’m commanding you today. God, your God, will outdo himself in making things go well for you: you’ll have babies, get calves, grow crops, and enjoy an all-around good life. Yes, God will start enjoying you again, making things go well for you just as he enjoyed doing it for your ancestors.

10 But only if you listen obediently to God, your God, and keep the commandments and regulations written in this Book of Revelation. Nothing halfhearted here; you must return to God, your God, totally, heart and soul, holding nothing back.

11-14 This commandment that I’m commanding you today isn’t too much for you, it’s not out of your reach. It’s not on a high mountain—you don’t have to get mountaineers to climb the peak and bring it down to your level and explain it before you can live it. And it’s not across the ocean—you don’t have to send sailors out to get it, bring it back, and then explain it before you can live it. No. The word is right here and now—as near as the tongue in your mouth, as near as the heart in your chest. Just do it!

15 Look at what I’ve done for you today: I’ve placed in front of you

Life and Good
Death and Evil.​

16 And I command you today: Love God, your God. Walk in his ways. Keep his commandments, regulations, and rules so that you will live, really live, live exuberantly, blessed by God, your God, in the land you are about to enter and possess.

17-18 But I warn you: If you have a change of heart, refuse to listen obediently, and willfully go off to serve and worship other gods, you will most certainly die. You won’t last long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

19-20 I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today: I place before you Life and Death, Blessing and Curse. Choose life so that you and your children will live. And love God, your God, listening obediently to him, firmly embracing him. Oh yes, he is life itself, a long life settled on the soil that God, your God, promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

 

[yonah_mishael]

Feel free anytime now to share your findings as to what the name means. We are waiting for your answer.

Are you going to act as if I have not commented on the origins of the name? Really? I'm just saying that your posting of word lists does nothing to add to your credibility. All it does is show that you don't know how to read the lists that you're posting. They don't say what you think they say - nor do they support your sub-standard scholarship.

 

[CherubRam]

Are you going to act as if I have not commented on the origins of the name? Really? I'm just saying that your posting of word lists does nothing to add to your credibility. All it does is show that you don't know how to read the lists that you're posting. They don't say what you think they say - nor do they support your sub-standard scholarship.

Feel free anytime now to share your findings as to what the name means. We are waiting for your answer.

 

[yonah_mishael]

Feel free anytime now to share your findings as to what the name means. We are waiting for your answer.

I agree with the consensus of the scholarly community that the name is composed of the root ה.ו.ה, which relates to existence. It should be understood as a combination of the various meanings of the root both as "one who exists" (as if in the qal stem) and "one who brings into existence" (as if in the piel stem). There is connection to the root ח.ו.ה, as you've suggested (since there is no chet ח in the word at all).

Note that there is also a biblical noun הַוָּה that means "desire," so it could be that יהוה was built on that word also - or at least associated with it - to mean that God is our "desire."

That said, I will again state that pulling up ridiculous lists of words and drawing lines between them proves nothing.

 

[CherubRam]

I agree with the consensus of the scholarly community that the name is composed of the root ה.ו.ה, which relates to existence. It should be understood as a combination of the various meanings of the root both as "one who exists" (as if in the qal stem) and "one who brings into existence" (as if in the piel stem). There is connection to the root ח.ו.ה, as you've suggested (since there is no chet ח in the word at all).

Note that there is also a biblical noun הַוָּה that means "desire," so it could be that יהוה was built on that word also - or at least associated with it - to mean that God is our "desire."

That said, I will again state that pulling up ridiculous lists of words and drawing lines between them proves nothing.

? More deception. Is that the best you can do?

 

[yonah_mishael]

? More deception. Is that the best you can do?

OK, I tell you what....

[align=right]בוא ננהל את השיחה הזו בעברית ונראה ליתר הביטחון אם אתה יודע על מה אתה מדבר. מה דעתך? ׳

תוכל בבקשה להסביר לי מה השורש של השם המפורש (יהו&#1492? איך יודעים אם זה נכון? או, במילים אחרות, איך אני יכול לגלות את השורש של מילה כלשהי שאני מוצא באיזשהו טקסט? אני אשמח אם תתכתב איתי בעברית בלבד על מנת להראות לכולם שהעברית שלך יותר טובה - מדוייקת וברורה יותר - מהעברית שלי. ׳

אם מישהו ישאל אותי לגבי משמעותו של השם "יעקב" (למש&#1500, הייתי עונה לו בשתי דרכים: (1) הייתי אומר שבבניין פעל יש שתי משמעויות לשורש ע.ק.ב - הראשונה הקשורה לחלק האחורי של כף הרגל והשנייה הקשורה לרמאות או הטעייה; מייד אחר מכן, הייתי אומר לו שיעקב אבינו היה ידוע כרמאי - למשל בסיפר שבו הוא רימה את אחיו ולקח לו את הזכויות שהיו מגיעים לו על סמך שהוא היה הבן הבכור במשפחתם. ׳

בהודעתי הקודמת עשיתי בדיוק אותו הדבר. הסברתי לך את משמעותו של השורש ה.ו.ה (שהוא שורשו של השם המפור&#1513 והסברתי איך זה קשור לאלהי ישראל שגם קיים מעולם ועד עולם (היה-הווה-יהי&#1492 וגם ברא את עולמנו והביא אותו למציאות (להוות - לגרום להיו&#1514. אני לא רואה בזה רמאות - אבל אם אתה לא מסכים, תסביר לי בעברית איפה אני טועה ואיך אני יכול לתקן את ההסברים שלי. ׳

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Or, if you cannot respond to this in modern Hebrew, perhaps you can write to us in biblical Hebrew and tell us how it is you think that the rabbis changed the Hebrew language to hide the name of God. Explain your crazy conspiracy theory in the best biblical Hebrew that you can muster, if you think that you can. I mean, I will agree with you that biblical Hebrew and modern Hebrew are not exactly the same language - just like Shakespearean and modern English are not exactly the same (was there a conspiracy there to change English?!). Modern Hebrew is much closer to Mishnaic Hebrew. But, can you tell us what the differences are that exist between the forums of the Hebrew language at its various stages of development? Can you really explain how these differences manifest in such a way that is (1) not part of the natural evolution of the language through time or that is in any way (2) part of a conspiracy on the part of the rabbis to take knowledge of God away from the people. I'll wait for your well-thought response.

 

[CherubRam]

I have said it before and I say it again, the word "Yah" most likely came from another language; that is how "Chai" and "Yah" are related. It is like saying "life" and "chai" are the same word. I'm done speaking to you, I'm tired of your games. Good bye Yonah.

 

[yonah_mishael]

I have said it before and I say it again, the word "Yah" most likely came from another language; that is how "Chai" and "Yah" are related. It is like saying "life" and "chai" are the same word. I'm done speaking to you, I'm tired of your games. Good bye Yonah.

You're done speaking to me? Good! Games? Hardly! I'm not bothered by your refusal to engage me or to substantiate your claims. You make outlandish claims and cannot support them, blather and argue about things that you don't know. I'm not bothered in the least by the fact that you might even ignore me. You spew all kinds of false information on this forum, and someone needs to put up a wall and say "NO! That's WRONG!" That person is me, the only person on this forum who has an internalized natural knowledge of the Hebrew language. I'm sorry that I have to oppose you all the time, but if you would stop making these claims again and again, you wouldn't draw my attention.

 

[AbbaLove]

Do you know what the meaning of God's name is?

Hebrew linguists believe YHVH is a form of the verb havah, meaning an action "to be or become." Ahv and ahavah (noun) occur over 200 times in biblical narratives and poetry. They convey notions of attachment, affection, passion, preference, loyalty and yearning.
http://what-when-how.com/love-in-world-religions/ahavah/

The noun ‘ahavah’ is a spiritual love like ‘agape’ being an unconditional love.
Hebrew Word of the Week - Ahavah

Ahavah as a noun is a name word like the name of a thing, a place or a person. One might think of the meaning of YHVH as YaHaVaH, YHVH being the truest example of LOVE, Yeshua HaMashiach.

Jeremiah 31:2(3)-13(14) CJB
2 (3) From a distance Adonai appeared to me, [saying,] “I love you with an everlasting love; this is why in my grace I draw you to me.
3 (4) Once again, I will build you; you will be rebuilt, virgin of Isra’el. Once again, equipped with your tambourines, you will go out and dance with the merrymakers.
4 (5) Once again, you will plant vineyards on the hills of Shomron, and those doing the planting will have the use of its fruit.
5 (6) For a day will come when the watchmen on Mount Efrayim will call, ‘Come, let’s go up to Tziyon, to Adonai our God.’”
6 (7) For here is what Adonai says: “Sing with joy for Ya‘akov!
shout for the chief of the nations! Proclaim your praise, and say:
‘Adonai! You have saved your people, the remnant of Isra’el!’
7 (8) Look! I am bringing them from the land in the north, gathering them from the far ends of the earth; among them are the blind and lame, women with children, women in labor, all together, a vast throng returning here.
8 (9) They will come weeping and praying as I bring them back. I will lead them by streams of water on smooth paths, so that they won’t stumble. For I am a father to Isra’el, and Efrayim is my firstborn son.”
9 (10) Nations, hear the word of Adonai! Proclaim it in the coastlands far away. Say: “He who scattered Isra’el is gathering him, guarding him like a shepherd his flock.”
10 (11) For Adonai has ransomed Ya‘akov, redeemed him from hands too strong for him.
11 (12) They will come and sing on the heights of Tziyon, streaming to the goodness of Adonai, to the grain, the wine, the olive oil, and the young of the flock and the herd. They themselves will be like a well-watered garden, never to languish again.
12 (13) “Then the virgin will dance for joy, young men and old men together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, comfort and gladden them after their sorrow.
13 (14) I will give the cohanim their fill of rich food, and my people will be satisfied with my bounty,” says Adonai.

 

[Lulav]

It is barely recognizable but I've come to believe there is a form of it in the only book dictated by Yeshua.

It is the first name used in the addressing of the congregations in Asia.

John to the seven churches which are in Asia:
Grace be unto you, and peace,

from him
which is and
which was and
which is to come

I wonder why it doesn't say

who is and
who was
and who is to come

?

But I have never been able to understand Greek despite studying it over 30 years ago.

Perhaps it is because it was in Hebrew and was translated as a Greek word when it wasn't?

The Greek translated into 'which' is o or pronounced 'ho'

The rest you can look up for yourselves but it seems to me that might be where the name can be found, albeit obscured.