“YAH and YAH Constructs:

For each name in the list below, I provide the following information:

1. The most common English transliteration 2. A definition for the name

1. Adonijah [Yah is my Lord]

2. Abijah [Yah is my father]

3. Achijah [Yah is my brother]

4. Urijah [Yah is my light]

5. Malchijah [Yah is my king]

6. Hodijah [Yah is my majesty]

7. Tovijah [Yah is my goodness]

8. Yiriyahu [Yah sees me]

9. Isaiah: Yeshayah [Salvation of Yah]. 

10. Jeremiah: Yirmyah. [Whom Yah has appointed]. 

Ok, with all of that being thrown into the bargain it was time to try and set things straight with a little help from our friends at Britannica:

“Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of “YHWH,” the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus. The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton.

After the Babylonian Exile (6th century BCE), and especially from the 3rd century BCE on, Jews ceased to use the name Yahweh for two reasons. As Judaism became a universal rather than merely a local religion, the more common Hebrew noun Elohim (plural in form but understood in the singular), meaning “God,” tended to replace Yahweh to demonstrate the universal sovereignty of Israel’s God over all others. At the same time, the divine name was increasingly regarded as too sacred to be uttered; it was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the Hebrew word Adonai (“My Lord”), which was translated as Kyrios (“Lord”) in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures.”

Well there it is folks. The Jews are indeed associated with this name ‘Yahweh’ and therefore the suggestion that the name ‘Yahweh’ means ‘Perverter’ fits like a glove doesn’t it? Isn’t it interesting how any similar spelling auto-corrects to ‘Yahweh’? That’s power and reach. That’s propaganda with an A+. That’s control of the narrative. What is also quite interesting about this entry is that it is plainly admitted that name ‘Elohim’ was too sacred to be uttered (really?) and thus we can see the beginning of concealing things from the plebs that the priesthood has consistently maintained. More importantly, we have a very simple definition of ‘Elohim’; plural in form but understood in the singular; two acting in concert as one. Sounds like Father and Son to me. Does that sound like Father and Son to you?

Though I’m not sure anymore about this word ‘Elohim’ and it’s actual origins, it does set up a better understanding of the following verse of scripture so commonly misconstrued:

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:” Deuteronomy 6:4 KJV

‘Elohim’. Plural understood as one, or united in concert and purpose. Father and Son = one Lord.

“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ (anointed One)? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.” 1John 2:22-24 KJV (brackets mine)

Ok. Carrying on with more from Britannica:

“The Masoretes, who from about the 6th to the 10th century CE worked to reproduce the original text of the Hebrew Bible, added to “YHWH” the vowel signs of the Hebrew words Adonai or Elohim. Latin-speaking Christian scholars replaced the Y (which does not exist in Latin) with an I or a J (the latter of which exists in Latin as a variant form of I). Thus, the tetragrammaton became the artificial Latinised name Jehovah (JeHoWaH). As the use of the name spread throughout medieval Europe, the initial letter J was pronounced according to the local vernacular language rather than Latin.”

Now, here we come to the tricky business of which Sir David Andrew speaks. We are presented with the Masoretes (heirs of the Pharisees), reproducing (re-writing?) the Hebrew scriptures (6 to 10 centuries after Christ), adding vowel signs Adonai and Elohim, replacing the ‘Y’ with ‘I’ or ‘J’ and the assertion that ‘Yahweh’ became ‘Jehovah’. Some, glossing over all of these various problems, effectively from falling for what can be called (and thanks must be given to ‘Ben Born Again’ for dubbing it so) ‘Hebrew idolatry’ would argue that ‘Yahvah’ became ‘Jehovah’. That is to say that the ending of ‘Jehovah’ is more evidence of ‘Yahvah’ than ‘Yahweh’. As ‘Yahweh’ is what the Jews use we can probably dismiss it straight off the bat as perversion. Does that make ‘Yahvah’ worth anything more? Or is this just more ‘Hebrew idolatry’ and based off of new-fangled Hebrew texts 6 to 10 centuries after Christ? Folks, is Christ your authority or some other?

Then, as the deliberations and inquiries continued as this matter was not settled in my mind (something still wasn’t right about it all), along came more ‘Hebrew idolatry’ mishmash, in a conversation with a fellow whose source and name have been lost. No matter. Here is the slop:

There are many proper names in the Old Testament affixed with yhv (yeho- or -yahu), and yhvh is the very name of God, which is known from inscriptions dated c. 830 BC. The Hebrew derivation of yhv is unclear, and scholars have suggested that it may have a non-Israelite origin, with some seeking meanings in Aramaic or Arabic or Egyptian. Although Sanskrit sources, where the same term is found with exactly the connotations appropriate to the biblical usage, have rarely been considered. Why did the followers of Abraham and Moses refer to their god as Yahweh? The evidence from Hebrew language seems rather slight. There was inter-marriage between Egyptian and Vedic cultures. 

More importantly, Yahvah, the name of the God in the Judaic tradition, occurs as an epithet for Agni in the Rigveda a total of 21 times (yahva in RV 10.110; yahvah in RV 3.1, 3.5, 4.5, 4.7, 4.58, 5.1, 7.6, 7.8, 9.75, 10.11; yahvam in RV 1.36; 3.3; 4.5; 5.16; 8.13; 10.92; yahvasya in RV 3.2 and 3.28). Indus ideas on writing may thus have, through the agency of the powerful Mitanni kingdom of Syria, been influential in the various Semitic traditions of the second and first millennia BC.  

Meaning of Sanskrit word “yahva” [1]

a.{a-stem}1. great; 2. active

meanings of “yahva” [2]

m.{a-stem}1. an employer of priests for sacrifices

meanings of “yahva” [3]

f.du.{a-stem}1. an epithet of heaven and earth; 2. of night of day; 3. of morning and evening

Yehovah is undoubtedly the same as the Chaldean Yahve and vedic Yahvah…

Yet there was also still more from Strong’s about ‘Yah’:

“Yah: the name of the God of Israel

Original Word: יָהּ
Part of Speech: Proper Name
Transliteration: Yah
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw)
Definition: the name of the God of Israel

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
contr. from Yhvh
Definition
the name of the God of Israel
NASB Translation
GOD (1), LORD (49).”

“Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, a chief, or a ruler.^[1][2] The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are entitled to courtesy titles. The collective “Lords” can refer to a group or body of peers.”

So, the basic meaning of this is that ‘LORD’ is just a generic term or title. It signifies nothing specific until we make it do so, for example: ‘Our LORD Jesus Christ’. Nor is it a name. Yet, there it is stuck into ‘The Bible’. How did it get there? Yet, it is disingenuous as it is not specific. Worse, it possibly has legal implications being in all capital letters. As for ‘God’ it no doubt has political ramifications as it is regularly used in constitutional documents to mean several possible deities for various differing faiths; ‘God’ as a term is kind of like an all-you-can-eat buffet where you can have it whatever way you like and apparently it’s all good, equal, fair and nice. However, as ‘God’ is not actually a name and signifies nothing specific but is understood as a generic name for politically equivalent and interchangeable deities of various faiths then for example ‘The LORD God’ doesn’t really mean anything though just about everybody might think they have a firm idea of exactly who or what this ‘LORD God’ is. (This may as well be the ‘many-faced god’ of Game of Thrones that the bankers dish out in the various lands of that world, which, effectively mirrors our own). Ask anyone to explain this ‘LORD God’ with any clarity and they will probably muddle out some drivel, or take you on a trip to who knows where that would of course be vastly different to somebody else’s trip. It would almost be like asking people to give you an account of a car crash. You’d wind up with a different story for each person yet supposedly each one would pertain to the same event.

Moving on.  Here’s more ‘Hebrew idolatry’ that also manages to give an interesting insight into various historical and linguistic developments:

“The prefix YAH is an abbreviation of Yahowah, the name of Elohim. The Bible makes great use of this short form. “Sha” means “Saves”, “saviour”. The whole name signifies “Yahu is salvation” or that “Yahowah Saves”. Miryam and Yoceph spoke Hebrew, not English or French. They gave Him a Hebrew name, Yahowsha, not Jesus. There is no J in Hebrew. All English speakers know that there was no J even in the English language until recently; 400 years, which is why they used to say Iesu. J is from the letter I. In the 1600’s they began to replace I by J at the beginning of a word. They got their J from French/German which borrowed it from Latin. It became a standard replacement for Y. We advise you to consult the many different encyclopaedias. The word Jesus is from the Greek Iesous (could be the name of a Greek god or where Greek placeholders were placed to tell the reader to insert and say (Yahowsha). The Latin speakers first rendered it as Iesus. Aramaic speakers rendered it Yeshua meaning “may his name and memory be obliterated, void of the Yahu the shorted form of the name of Yahowah completely missing Yahowah’s point of Yahowah Saves, Yahowsha.

Yahowah did not give His name to Moses as Adoni/Lord. Lord is a title, not a name; just like the word GOD is not a name. There are all kinds of GODS, and each one has their own name. This is why Moses said to Him, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The Elohim (god) of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”, for the God of Egypt had a name; the God of the Canaanites had a name, too. “Which God sent you, Moshe? Ammon, Anubis, Nimrod, Zeus?” So Elohim spoke to Moses in Hebrew and told him, “You shall tell them YAHOWAH sent me.” 

Many translators, knowing that you cannot translate only transliterate that blessed name of Elohim have wisely decided to keep the original name as it was given. No encyclopedia or dictionary will tell you that the Hebrews called Him Jehovah (which is purely a Britannic term; HOVAH means mischief, see Strong Concordance #1953 ), or Lord, the English translation for Baal and the title of England’s monarchical masters.

Very simply, let those who are intelligent ask themselves this, “If the name was too “ineffable” to be pronounced, why did Yahowah say to Moshe, ‘Tell them, My name is Yahowah. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations?” (Ex. 3:15). In Chapter 6 He further appeared to Moshe and said, “I am Yahowah. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as Elohim Shaddai, but by My name Yahowah I was not known to them,” (or was I not known to them). And why in Numbers 6:22-27, He told Moshe to tell Aaron and his sons to always bless the children of Israel in this way, “Yahowah bless you and keep you; Yahowah makes His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; Yahowah lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.‘ So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.“ Isn’t that amazing? Today’s priests refuse to put Yahowahs’ name on Israel. No wonder our people are being overrun by enemies on all sides.” from “Why Do We Say Yahowah and Yahowsha?”

Now after all of that, the following is from a recent exchange in which I was personally lambasted for my inability to answer the question put to us in Proverbs 30:4:

“Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?” Proverbs 30:4 KJV

“God tells us to know his name, tell our brethren of his name, proclaim his name, exalt his name, pray in his name, so as to be saved by his name. He says only one name saves. And let me know if you wanna see the verse that says if you don’t know God’s name, you’re not part of his family. He told us his name 7000 times. It’s either important to him or he is verbose. Whether you find it important or not simply doesn’t matter. Truth is never popular. I don’t care how you receive it.

“V” is a Rabbinical corruption. We KNOW his name because the root (Howah) forms THOUSANDS of Hebrew words and names. If “Yahowah” is wrong, the entire Hebrew language is wrong. What is annoying is the arrogance of people which, are linguistically illiterate and don’t know the difference between a WORD and a NAME. The Lamb, Father, Son, Messiah are all words or titles but not names. There is a huge difference. Names do not change with language. My name is “Shane” in every language on planet Earth. It doesn’t matter whether He knows all the names and languages. His name doesn’t change. Even the first KJV didn’t contain the name “Jesus”. Last time I checked, only one name saves.

His name wasn’t, isn’t and never will be “Jesus”. Thats impossible and thus STUPID. The letter “J” was INVENTED IN THE 16TH CENTURY. t’s a straightforward question from God (Proverbs 30:4). He asks what is his name and the name of his son. The point is that perhaps people shouldn’t proclaim “Jesus drops the veil and we will see in his timing” when they don’t even know God’s name. God tells us his name 7000 times in his message to mankind. Words do not get any clearer than “I am Yahowah. That is my name.” The Son had to come in His name to fulfil prophecy. “Yahowsha” is his son. The first time Jesus was ever written was 1629.” Shane Coombs

Now, straight off the bat we can see that there is mention once again of 2; Father and Son. So, since at this current time I have no reason to doubt this verse of scripture as anything but valid as I see the scriptures are consistently showing us two (not one or three), for now I will just say that while the question remains solid the apostle Paul sets it out:

“For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.” 1 Corinthians 8:5,6 KJV

Ok. So, this fellow Mr Coombs has definitively stepped outside the parameters of everything we have previously looked at offering completely different names for both The Father and The Son; Yahowa and Yahowsha. Goodbye Jehovah, Jeshu and Jesus. Based upon his assertions of Hebrew and language as it was at the time Mr Coombs declared himself to be the ‘only one doing any real teaching’. Well, that was quite the claim and it certainly gave me something to think about. It even appeared to solve basic corruption problems and made some kind of sense. Yet, does it make any sense at all?

Well, it did make a certain sense until this whole rabbit hole that started almost ten years ago was brilliantly excoriated by ‘Ben Born Again’ in his fantastic research on the name of Jesus. The following is an excerpt:

“It’s unequivocal. Every single one of the original New Testament manuscripts were written in Greek. All 5255 that are known. In sharp contrast there are no original Hebrew manuscripts of the New Testament whatsoever. The earliest Hebrew version of a complete New Testament book wasn’t completed until the 14th century. The reason the New testament was originally written in Greek is because nobody was speaking Hebrew as a functional language during the first century AD. This makes total sense when you understand the history of Palestine and the history of the Jews. Palestine was conquered by Alexander the Great the king of the Ancient Greek Kingdom of Macedonia 300 years before Christ was born in 322 BC. This is when the Greek language was widely introduced where it quickly become the universal language of commerce and trade. But even before this the Jews had already abandoned their Paleo-Hebrew language of Moses which, in truth was merely just Phoenician. This happened when the Jews were exiled into Babylon between 600-500BC. 

In the Bible, God let this happen as their punishment because they started worshipping demons, and sacrificing their babies to Moloch. During this captivity the Jews totally abandoned their original language and quickly adapted the Babylonian language called Aramaic. The people that insist that Hebrew was the language of the Jews during the life of Jesus fail to understand that what most people call Biblical Hebrew is really just Aramaic. Modern Hebrew script is nearly identical to Aramaic script. Many centuries later when Jesus was born Aramaic had become very limited spoken only by the Jews in Jerusalem. While Greek had become very dominant especially for thousands of Jews outside Judea, which, greatly outnumbered the Aramaic speaking Jews in Jerusalem.

During the time of Jesus’ life and ministry Jesus and his apostles used the Greek Septuagint Old Testament as their main scripture. We know this because Jesus and his apostles quoted the Greek Old Testament Septuagint word for word. In 285 BC King Ptolemy II of Philadelphius commissioned 72 Israelites, 6 from each tribe, to translate the Hebrew Scriptures into the Greek language. By 150 BC the Septuagint LXX Old Testament became the favourite Jewish translation by even the high priests in Jerusalem. With a copy in every synagogue in the world by the time Jesus was born. The Greek Septuagint is over 1000 years older than the Masoretic text Old Testament which was written in the modern Hebrew language that was invented centuries after the life and ministry of Jesus. Jesus and his apostles spoke Greek and Aramaic but no one at that time was speaking Paleo Hebrew because it was dead.

In the following centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus  the descendants of the Pharisees called Masorets began writing a new Old Testament Bible in a new invented script that was heavily inspired by Aramaic characters. This new Hebrew 2.0 script was designed to be an occultic cabalistic language for hidden magic codes, divination and a form of numerology called ‘Gematria’. It was a strange deviation from the original Paleo-Hebrew script of Moses.

So, now that we know why every single one of the original New Testament manuscripts were written in Greek we can also clarify that yes, the name of Jesus was and always has been Jesus! If we examine all of the 5255 known original New Testament manuscripts we see that every single writer wrote the name of Jesus as the Son of God.

But wait, if the letter ‘J’ wasn’t invented until the 1600s how could his name be pronounced Jesus using the  ‘J’ sound?

The answer to this is so simple. William Tyndale translated the very first English bible in 1525AD. As a Greek scholar he translated from the original Greek New Testament manuscripts. At that time the letter ‘J’ didn’t exist  in the Greek or the English languages. However, even though the letter ‘J’ wasn’t invented yet the sound of the ‘J’ was absolutely used. The pronunciation rule was that if the letter ‘I’ was placed before a vowel then it would create the ‘J’ sound. For example, in 1611 King James was the ruler even though his name was spelled ‘Iames’ Also, even though the word Jew was spelled ‘Iewe’ it was still pronounced with the ‘J’ sound exactly as we speak it today. The same rule was applied in Greek during the time of Jesus. This usage of ‘I’ to represent the ‘J’ sound before a vowel was part of the linguistic practice of the time where the letter ‘I’ served multiple phonetic functions depending on its’ position in a word.

So now we can finally put to rest all the silly ideas that we need to call Jesus something else.”

So, unfortunately for Mr Coombs, and pretty much everybody which, has given the Masoretic text the credit it doesn’t deserve, the Hebrew language is actually garbage; fraudulent garbage. This of course means that much of what we had to endure on this goose chase that led to potentially terrible ends such as striking out the name of Jesus (no doubt their end goal), represent centuries of the very same and at the institutional level. Folks, I will happily urge you to pull up a chair and prepare to have your socks knocked off with a work that makes my inquiry look like the part-time research it is. The sad story that awaits you on the destruction of scripture and the birth of ‘Hebrew idolatry’ will be well worth your time. For indeed, we are now besieged in what Ben Born Again calls the Hebrew Name Game, and what a game it is. What is going on in God’s name?