Yahwah
A note on the words hawah and hayah.
Quote from pages 217 and 218 of the Brown-Driver-Briggs. Ref # 3068-69 on page 217.
Brown-Driver-Briggs on page 218 states that, "Many recent scholars explain יהוה as Hiph. of הוה equals היה "
הוה hawah / HWH is hawah.
היה hayah / HYH is hayah.
Note that the vowels are all " a."
יהוה Yahwah
The vowels are "a" in the Brown-Driver-Briggs, the NIV Exhaustive Concordance, and the Strong's Exhaustive Concordances.
The name Yahwah is from the Aramaic, not the Hebrew.
The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1901, Volume 12, page 119, states.
It thus becomes possible to determine with a fair degree of certainty the historical
pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, the results agreeing with the statement of Ex. iii.
14, in which YAHWEH terms Himself hyha. "I will be", a phrase which is immediately
proceeded by the fuller term "I will be that I will be," or, as in the English versions, "I
am" and "I am that I am." The name hwhy is accordingly derived from the root
hwh(=hyh), and is regarded as an imperfect. This passage is decisive for the
pronunciation "Yahweh"; for the etymology was undoubtedly based on the known word.
The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 7, page 680, further states this fact.
The true pronunciation of the name YAHWEH was never lost. Several early Greek
writers of the Christian Church testify that the name was pronounced "Yahweh". This is
confirmed, at least for the vowel of the first syllable of the name, by the shorter form
Yah, which is sometimes used in poetry (e.g., Ex. 15:2) and the -yahu or -yah that serves
as the final syllable in very many Hebrew names.
The Encyclopedia Britanica, Volume 23, page 867, confirms this fact.
The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume 9, page 160
"Of the names of God in the Old Testament, that which occurs most frequently (6,823
times) is the so-called Tetragrammaton, YAHWEH (hwhy), the distinctive personal name
of the God of Israel".
The Jewish Encyclopedia Volume 12, pages 118-119
"TETRAGRAMMATON: The quadriliteral name of God, (hwhy). The Tetragrammaton is the ancient Israelitish name for God"
The Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume 9, pages 162-163
:
...The Rabbis as well as the cabalists steadfastly maintained their belief in monotheism.
Hence they recognized only one proper name for the Deity, considering the other names
as appellations or titles signifying divinity, perfection, and power, or as characterizing
His acts as observed and appreciated by mankind...The name YAHWEH is considered as
the Name proper; it was known in the earliest rabbinical works simply as the Name; also
as Shem ha-Meyuhad ("the Extraordinary Name"; Sifre, Num. 143): as Shem haMeforash ("the Distinguished Name"; Yoma vi. 2); as Shem ben The Name. Arba'
Otiyyot ("the Tetra-grammaton" or "the Quadrilateral Name"; Kid 71a); and as Yod He
Waw He (spelling letters of YAHWEH).