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Talk:YHWH/Archive1

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Isn't that odd? I've never seen it with a W before, I've always seen it written as YHVH. --Kels 06:50, 12 September 2007 (MDT)

Am I totally off to think vaguely that the original four Hebrew letters were an anacronym for "The Great I Am"? And also, can we mention that the reason there are no vowels is that the language it was written in had no vowels? humanUser talk:Human 14:53, 26 January 2008 (EST)

Yes, I believe the acronym YHWH, "Ya-WAY", (YHVH is almost always associated with the New World Translation, [Jehovah's Witness' version], vocalised as "Ya-VAY", which supposedly transliterated into "JehoVah") is the "name" of the Abrahamic deity and renders down to "I am that I am" or simply "I am my own cause", hence, God. I would only make mention of it having no vowels if one has an article on the ancient Hebrew language itself to link to. Warren Terra 15:28, 26 January 2008 (EST)

Kels: The W and the V transcriptions are interchangeable, as in fact would be Y and J. EVDebs 19:48, 11 April 2008 (EDT)

Hence the pronunciation "Jehovah". Makes sense. The Heidelberg Kid (talk) 01:26, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Reminds me of an episode of Il Etait Une Fois...L'Homme (Once Upon a Time... Man) from my childhood. When Moses is pleading with Ramseses II as in the Exodus narrative, he pronounces it "Yahvah". I also remember the music, and the raining frogs. The Heidelberg Kid (talk) 01:26, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Yahweh the volcano deity[edit]