YHWH - Pronunciation & Meaning

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Isa 28:9 Whom would He teach knowledge? And whom
would He make to understand the message? Those
weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts!
Isa 28:10 For it is: command upon command,
command upon command, line upon line, line
upon line, here a little, there a little.
Isa 28:11 For with a jabbering lip and a foreign tongue
He speaks to this people,
Isa 28:12 to whom He said, “This is the rest, give rest
to the weary,” and, “This is the refreshing.” But they
would not hear.
Isa 28:13 But the Word of was to them,
“Command upon command, command upon
command, line upon line, line upon line, here a
little, there a little,” so that they go and shall
stumble backward, and be broken and snared and
taken captive.

Exo 3:15 And Elohim said further to Mosheh,
“Thus you are to say to the children of
Yisra‟ĕl, „ Elohim of your fathers, the
Elohim of Aḇraham, the Elohim of aq,
and the Elohim of Ya‟aqoḇ, has sent me to
you. THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS
IS MY REMEMBRANCE TO ALL
GENERATIONS.‟
Psa 116:17 I bring You a slaughtering of
thanksgiving, AND CALL UPON THE NAME OF
.
Psa 116:18 I pay my vows to In the
presence of all His people,
Psa 116:19 In the courts of the House of ,
In your midst, O Yerushalayim. Praise Yah!

Rev 2:17 “He who has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To
him who overcomes I shall give some of the
hidden manna to eat. And I shall give him a
white stone, and on the stone A RENEWED
NAME WRITTEN which no one knows except
him who receives it.” ‟

Rev 3:12 “He who overcomes, I shall make
him a supporting post in the Dwelling Place
of My Elohim, and he shall by no means go
out. And I shall write on him the NAME OF MY
ELOHIM and the name of the city of My
Elohim, the renewed Yerushalayim, which
comes down out of the heaven from My
Elohim, and MY RENEWED NAME.

Exo 20:7 “You do not BRING ( - NaSHa‟)
the Name of your Elohim to NAUGHT
( - SHaWa‟) for does not leave the one
unpunished who brings His Name to naught.
H5375
- nasha„ - naw-saw„
A primitive root; to lift …to bear … to bring
H7723
- shaw „ – shaw‟h or shaw
desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or
morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as
false, subjectively), uselessness (as deceptive,
objectively; also adverbially in vain): - false (-ly), lie,
lying, vain, vanity.

H7723 - - SH W „ “shawa” - ruin/vanity - Noun
H7722 - - SH W „ “showah” - desolation - Noun

H7768 - - SH W C “shawaC” - to cry for help - V
H7769 - - SH W C “shoowaC” - cry for help – N
H7771 - - SH W C “showaC” - rich – N

H3444 - - Y SH W C H “yeshooah” - deliverance - N
passive participle of H3467
- Y SH C “yawshaC” - to save - V

YAHUSHUA = YHWH Saves or YHWH is the Deliverer
Yahusha is incorrect

Psa 23:3 He turns back my being; He leads me in
paths of righteousness FOR HIS NAME‟S SAKE.
Psa 91:14 “Because he cleaves to Me in love,
Therefore I deliver him; I set him on high, BECAUSE HE
HAS KNOWN MY NAME.
Psa 91:15 “When he CALLS ON ME (qara‟), I answer
him; I am with him in distress; I deliver him and esteem
him.
Mat 6:9 “This, then, is the way you should pray: „Our
Father who is in the heavens, LET YOUR NAME BE SET-
APART,
Num 6:27 “Thus they shall PUT MY NAME ON THE
CHILDREN OF YISRA‟ĔL, and I Myself shall bless them.”
In e-sword, The scriptures 1998
“Name” (Capitalized) is found 537 TIMES

Ms - Ms%- ShaM
The breath of a man is character, what makes one
what he is. The name of an individual is more than
an identifier but descriptive of his character or
breath.

Gen 2:7 And Elohim formed the man out of
dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
breath of life ( - NeSHMaT HHaYiM). And the
man became a living being.

Psa 23:3 He turns back my being; He leads me in
paths of righteousness FOR HIS NAME‟S SAKE.
Psa 91:14 “Because he cleaves to Me in love,
Therefore I deliver him; I set him on high, BECAUSE
HE HAS KNOWN MY NAME.
Mat 6:9 “This, then, is the way you should pray:
„Our Father who is in the heavens, LET YOUR NAME
BE SET-APART,
Num 6:27 “Thus they shall PUT MY NAME ON THE
CHILDREN OF YISRA‟ĔL, and I Myself shall bless
them.”
In e-sword, The scriptures 1998
“Name” (Capitalized) is found 537 TIMES

Mal 3:16 Then shall those who fear speak to
one another, and listen and hear, and a book of
remembrance be written before Him, of those who
fear , and those WHO THINK UPON HIS NAME.
Mal 3:17 “And they shall be Mine,” said of
hosts, “on the day that I prepare a treasured
possession. And I shall spare them as a man spares
his own son who serves him.
Psa 79:9 Help us, O Elohim of our deliverance, For
the sake of the ESTEEM OF YOUR NAME. And
deliver us, and cover over our sins, FOR YOUR
NAME‟S SAKE!
Psa 45:17 I cause Your Name to be remembered in
all generations; Therefore the people praise You
forever and ever.

Jer 10:25 Pour out Your wrath on the gentiles who do not
know You, and on the tribes who do not call on Your Name.
For they have eaten up Yaʽaqoḇ, devoured him and
consumed him, and laid waste his home.

Mal 2:2 “If you do not hear, and if you do not take it to heart,
to give esteem to My Name,” said of hosts, “I shall
send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your blessings. And
indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to
heart.

Psa 79:6 Pour out Your wrath on the gentiles Who have not
known You, And on reigns that have not called on Your Name.

Psa 105:1 Give thanks to ! CALL UPON HIS NAME,
Make known His deeds among the peoples.
Psa 105:2 Sing to Him, sing praise to Him; Speak of all His
wonders.
Psa 105:3 Make your boast in His set-apart Name; Let the
hearts rejoice of those seeking .

Exo 9:16 “And for this reason I have raised you up, in
order to show you My power, and in order to declare My
Name in all the earth.

Eze 39:7 “And I shall make My set-apart Name known in
the midst of My people Yisra‟ĕl, and not let My set-apart
Name be profaned any more. And the gentiles shall
know that I am , the Set-apart One in Yisra‟ĕl.

Deu 12:3 “And you shall break down their altars, and
smash their pillars, and burn their Ashĕrim with fire. And
you shall cut down the carved images of their mighty
ones and shall destroy their name out of that place.
Deu 12:4 “Do not do so to your Elohim,

Jer 23:27 who try to make My people forget My Name by
their dreams which everyone relates to his neighbour, as
their fathers forgot My Name for Ba‟al.

Hos 2:16 “And it shall be, in that day,” declares , “that
you call Me „My Husband,‟ and no longer call Me „My Ba‟al.‟
Hos 2:17 “And I shall remove the names of the Ba‟als from
her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their
name.
Psa 44:20 If we have forgotten the Name of our Elohim, Or
stretched out our hands to a foreign mighty one,
Psa 44:21 Would Elohim not search this out? For He knows
the secrets of the heart.
Exo 23:13 “And in all that I have said to you take heed. And
make no mention of the name of other mighty ones, let it not
be heard from your mouth.
Hos 12:5 even Elohim of hosts, is His remembrance.
Deu 18:5 “For your Elohim has chosen him out of all
your tribes to stand to serve in the Name of , him and his
sons forever.

Joe 2:30 “And I shall give signs in the
heavens and upon the earth: blood and fire
and columns of smoke,
Joe 2:31 the sun is turned into darkness, and
the moon into blood, before the coming of the
great and awesome day of .
Joe 2:32 “And it shall be that everyone who
CALLS (qara‟) on the Name of shall be
delivered. For on Mount Tsiyon and in
Yerushalayim there shall be an escape as
has said, and among the survivors
whom calls (qara‟) .

H7121

- qârâ„ - kaw-raw'
TO CALL OUT TO
(that is, properly address by name, but used
in a wide variety of applications):
- bewray [self], that are bidden, CALL (for,
forth, self, upon), CRY (unto), (be) famous,
guest, INVITE, MENTION, (give) name,
PREACH, (make) PROCLAIM (-ation),
PRONOUNCE, PUBLISH, READ, RENOWNED,
SAY.

Rq - Rq - QR
Ac – Call, co – Meeting ab – Event

The pictograph q is a picture of the sun at
the horizon and the gathering of the light, the
r is a picture of the head of a man.
Combined these mean "gather the men". The
meeting or bringing together of people or
objects by arrangement, accident or
purchase.
(eng: occur; call - with the exchange of the l
and r)

Arq - Arq - Q-RA
VERB
I. Call: To call or call out, to call a name or
give a name. [Hebrew and Aramaic]
II. Meet: To come together to meet. Also a
chance encounter.
III. Read: To read a scroll in the presence of
those called to a meeting.

[freq. 883]

H3050 - – YAH
Appearances in Scriptures: About 50
**6 times outside of Psa and SofS (Poetry)**

H3068 - – YHWH
Appearances in Scriptures: 8000+

NUMBER OF NAMES THAT CONTAIN YAH
137 NAMES

NUMBER OF NAMES THAT CONTAIN YAHU
100 NAMES

YAH
IS FROM THE VERB HAYAH = EIE (H1961)
It means : to exist, be or become, come to pass
TO HAVE BREATH

THERE IS ANOTHER VERB THAT MEANS “TO EXIST”

H1933

hâwâ' hâwâh
haw-waw', haw-waw'
to breathe; to be (in the sense of existence):

H1735

Dodawahu (do-daw-waw'-hoo)
love of Yah; Dodawah, an Israelite
H1937

Hodewah (ho-dew-aw„)
majesty of Yah; Hodewah (or Hodewyah), an
Israelite
EVEN THOUGH THE NAMES END IN “WAH”
THEY STILL PAY ATTRIBUTE TO YAH

THEORY
– YAH
AND
– WAH
COULD POSSIBLY BE PARTICIPLES WITH
THE MEANING:

“THE EXISTER” OR “THE ONE WHO EXISTS”

Exo 3:14 And Elohim said to Mosheh, “I AM THAT
WHICH I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to
the children of Yisra‟ĕl, „I am has sent me to you.‟

„-HYH „SHR „-HYH
I WILL EXIST HOW I WILL EXIST
„ASHER = Relative Pronoun
Exo 3:15 And Elohim said further to Mosheh, “Thus
you are to say to the children of Yisra‟ĕl, „
Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham, the
Elohim of aq, and the Elohim of Ya‟aqoḇ, has
sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is
My remembrance to all generations.‟

IF YOU READ THE STORY BEHIND FAMOUS
NAMES SUCH AS, LARSI (Yishr‟al – “Yisra‟el”),
THE 12 TRIBES OF LARSI, THE NAMES OF
THE PATRIARCHS AND EVEN THE NAME OF
hISMe OSFeI (Yahushua HaMashich)
YOU‟LL REALIZE THEY TELL YOU THE
INTENDED MEANING BEHIND THE NAME
BEFORE YAH TOLD MOSHE THE NAME: EFEI
IN VERSE 15, HE STATED eIeA RSA eIeA
(„ahayah asher „ahayah) AND HIHA AGAIN

THUS WE KNOW THE MEANING BEHIND eFeI
WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH
“EXISTENCE”

Lachish Ostracon

LINES 1, 15, 17(2) = NAMES W/
YAHU
LINES 3, 9 = YHWH
Estimated Date: 589/588 BCE (Before the fall to
Babylon)

Katef Hinnom Silver Scrolls

Estimated Date: 700-600 BCE

The Mesha Stele aka “The Moabite Stone"
Line 17: women and female
slaves. For Ashtar Kemosh I put
it to the ban. And I took from
there the vessels

Line 18: of YHWH, and I hauled
them before Kemosh. Now the
king of Israel had built

Possibly parallels events of 2
Kings 3

Estimated Date: 840 BCE

Tel Dan Stele

Line 8'. the king of Israel, and I killed [...]yahu son of [...
the ki]/ng of

Estimated Date: 870-750 BCE

Date of Writing: c. 700 BCE
Location of Discovery: Outside of Los Lunas New Mexico
These are the Ten Commandments written in Paleo-Hebrew found
in AMERICA

is found over 380 times

Isa 33:22
for is our
Judge, is
our Lawgiver,
is our
Sovereign, He
saves us –

THERE ARE A COUPLE THEORIES BEHIND
THE MEANING OF EFEI
1) “HE EXISTS” where the name reads EfE-i
In Hebrew Grammar, adding an I to the beginning of
a verb (EfE) makes it 3rd Person Singular Masculine
Imperfect
Hence EfE-I would either mean “He Will Exist”
or “HE EXISTS”, it would be the latter to be
consistent in tense with eIeA - “I AM”
2) EfEI is derived from afei which is pronounced
“YAH-OO” and means either He Shall be (verb) or
the name YAHU which means EfEI is He (H3058)
Exo 6:2 And Elohim spoke to Mosheh and said to
him, “I am .

Isa 48:12 “Listen to Me, O Ya‟aqoḇ, and Yisra‟ĕl, My called:
I am He ( ), I am the First, I am also the Last.
Isa 41:4 “Who has performed and done it, calling the
generations from the beginning? „I, , am the first, and
with the last I am He.‟ ” ( )
Isa 43:10 “You are My witnesses,” declares , “And
My servant whom I have chosen, so that you know and
believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me
there was no Ěl formed, nor after Me there is none.
Isa 43:11 “I, I AM , and besides Me there is no
saviour.
Isa 46:3 “Listen to Me, O house of Ya‟aqoḇ, and all the
remnant of the house of Yisra‟ĕl, who are borne from the
belly, who are carried from the womb:
Isa 46:4 even to your old age, I am He, and even to grey
hairs I carry! I have made and I bear, and I carry and
rescue.

3)

HAYAH (1961) = TO EXIST, TO BE,
HUW (1931) = THAT, WHICH, WHO, HE
HAWAH (1933) = TO EXIST, TO BE

YAHWEH?
It was the Greek translators that would often
replace the “ah” ending that was believed to
be feminine, with an “eh” ending

Furthermore, despite the variation in vowel
pointings, most of the ones I‟ve come seen
show that there is suppose to be an “aw”
sound between the f waw and the e ha

YAHWEH?
HEBREW GRAMMAR

HWH pronounced “Hawah” is…
- 3rd Person (He, She, They)
- Masculine (He)
- Perfect Tense Verb
- Meaning “He Existed”

To get „He Will Be” or “He Exists” you add the Yad i
Now normally this would be pronounced
(according to current Hebrew Grammar Rules)

“yih‟woh”
But there are some issues with that…

YAHWEH?
HEBREW GRAMMAR
HWH is what you call in Hebrew Grammar an
“IRREGULAR VERB”
1) It starts and ends with Ha
2) It has 2 Ha hence it‟s labeled “Doubly
Weak”
3) Because it has a Waw in the middle, it‟s
called a “Hollow Verb”
Each of these conditions have special rules in
pronunciation, let alone all there in one word
We‟ll discuss this more later,
However, even in Hebrew Grammar, there is no vowel
pointing that renders the pronunciation “Yahweh”

There are 4 possibilities based on the
Hebrew Grammar Rules I‟ve studied thus far

YaHaWaH
YaHuWaH
YaHoWaH
YaHuWaH
*** Regarding “Yeh” – when talking about natural
pronunciation, the Masorites would place a Shewa (:)
under the first letter of a word with multiple syllables
because we naturally would not pronounce “Yaw” at
the beginning of the word when spoken at regular
speed, hence the most accurate way to represent the
first syllable would be Y‟ or Yə

Of the three, YaHuWaH and YaHuWaH is the
most attested

larsi from
1) The name of the Tribe of
which The MessiYah came from is edfei
which is pronounced “YaHUDah”
Never YaHODaH nor YaHUDeh

Gen 29:35 And she conceived again and
bore a son, and said, “Now I praise
.” So she called his name Yehuḏah.
And she ceased bearing.

2) “Yahu” fei is at the end
of 72 Hebrew names in
Scripture, not “Yaho”

3) In order to get the
pronunciation YaHoDaH (or
YehoDah), would need
special vowel pointings.
It‟s believed these vowel
pointings were altered so
efei would have the same
vowels as Adonai and
Elohim
(Like Yehovih – H3069)

4) The Waw can be a Consonant and a Vowel
H6312

pu'ah pûwwâh
poo-aw', poow-waw'
a blast; Puah or Puvvah, the name of two Israelites: -
Phuwah, Pua, Puah.
Another Example
„aliyahu - feila = My Power is efei (H452)
VS
„alihu – feila = He is My Power (H453)
Exact same spelling, but they have different
meanings because the YAD in „ALIYAHU is
consonant and a vowel while it‟s only a vowel in
„ALIHU

5) aHaYah – „aSheR - aHaYah
aHaYaH – HuW – aHaWaH
The above two statements say the exact
same thing
I Will Be (What, Who, How, That, Cause) I Will Be
This wouldn‟t work if the middle said “Ho”
which means Oh! Alas! Ah!
Some Hebrew names are a mashup of words
YaHUDah = YHWH + YaDaH
YaHUSHUA = YHWH + YaSHUA
YSHaR‟aL = Y + SHaRaH + „aL
YHWH = HaYaH + HuW + HaWaH
Or
YHWH = Y + HaWaH

6) Vowel Points

Because the Hebrew Language is “Abjad”
(Consonant Only) certain techniques were
employed after TaNaKh was written determine
vowel sounds
'By the beginning of the Middle Ages, the Masoretes of
Babylonia and Palestine (6th–10th century) had fixed in
writing, by points and annotation, the traditional
pronunciation, punctuation, and (to some extent)
interpretation of the biblical text.'
- Encyclopedia Britannica
However, The Dead Sea Scrolls (408 BCE - 318 CE)
didn‟t use vowel points, they used “matres
lectionis” (Latin: "mothers of reading“),the use of
certain consonants to indicate a vowel.

6) Vowel Points

86% of the instances that YHWH is written in
the TaNaKh is vowel pointed as

Where = Qamets = “a” as in father

And = Schwa = "ə" sounds like the “a” in
a-bout, or ca-reen

For Yeh-o-wah, you would need the pointing

= Holam = “o” as in role

8) THE HA
The Greeks would use characters from our
alphabet that represented letters that did not
pronounce (the gutturals a f o) to represent
vowel sounds

I believe in Ancient Hebrew Ha e was just a
BREATH while Hhat h was a stronger breath
that was closer to the pronounced letter “H”
(Hercules vs Alleluiah)
I believe this is why Jamaicans don‟t
pronounce “H” at the beginning of a word, it‟s
because we lost the original pronunciation

8) THE HA
I also believe this is how we went from
fei (YaHU) to fi (YO)
Like in Yohhanan, Yosaph, Yonah, Yo‟al
** “Joshua” and “Judah”**
This is also the reason why some of the
names in Scripture is missing the “H”
Habel – Able, Hoshea – Osee, HalaluYah - Alleluia

Also when there is suppose to be a “Hh” they
put and “H”
Hham – Ham, Hhizqiyahu - Hezekiyah,
Hhermon - Hermon

BUT: HaYaH vs HhaYaH, HaWaH vs. HhaYaH

8) THE HA
H1887
– ha‟
A primitive particle; lo!: - behold, lo.
H162
- 'ăhâhh - a-haw'
Apparently a primitive word expressing pain
exclamatorily; Oh!: - ah, alas.
H1929
- hâhh - haw
ah! expressing grief: - woe worth.
The pictograph e represents
“one who is looking at a great sight with his
hands raised and taking a long breath”.

8) THE HA
Ha e is a Breath
The other Gutturals (From the throat)
A h o
Also deal with the breath, their sound is made by
changing the shape of the channel the breath
flows through, just like vowels

In Hebrew the Gutturals were characters, but
their sound was related to the vowel before
and/or after it
This is why the Greeks used these Characters for
Vowel Letters

To this day the
Cherokee call the
Creator "Yowa",
which does resemble
"Iowa", which would
be a short form. J.C.
Beltrami called the
Iowa river the
YAHOWA10 river,
interesting to say the
least.
- A Pilgrim in Europe
and America Vol. II p.
151 byJ.C. Beltrami
(1828)

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