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Hebrew Names for God For more resources on the names of God, further additions to this chart, and more, visit hebrewrootsmom.com Name Name in Hebrew Meaning Example verse Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh הֶיְהֶא רֶ ֲא הֶיְהֶא “I AM THAT I AM” Exodus 3:14 Yahweh (Yahveh), Jehovah (Yehovah) הוהי Possibly “I AM”, translated LORD ...
The Name YHVH means that "God was (i.e., hayah: היה), God is (i.e., hoveh: הוֶה), and God always will be (i.e., veyihyeh: וְיִהְיֶה)," which implies that He is ever present and not restricted by time or space.
YHWH is the so-called Tetragrammaton, from the Greek Τετραγράμματον, meaning "consisting of four letters." It is a Hebrew name of God, which in English is transliterated into four letters namely YHWH, and frequently Anglicized as Yahweh or Jehovah.
Introduction to the Hebrew Alphabet. The Hebrew alphabet, the holy language of the Bible, is used for biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Yiddish, and Ladino. It consists of 22 letters, all consonants, none of which are lowercase. Each letter has its own sound and numerical value.
Judaism has different names given to God, which are considered sacred: יהוה (YHWH), אֲדֹנָי (Adonai transl. my Lord [s]), אֵל (El transl. God), אֱלֹהִים (Elohim transl. God [s]), [n 1] שַׁדַּי (Shaddai transl. Almighty), and צְבָאוֹת (Tzevaoth transl. [Lord of] Hosts); some also include I Am that I Am. [1] Early authorities considered other Hebr...
Most English translations render El Shaddai as "God Almighty," probably because the translators of the Septuagint (i.e., the Greek translation of the Old Testament) thought Shaddai came from a root verb (shadad) that means "to overpower" or "to destroy."
The most important of God's Names is the four-letter Name represented by the Hebrew letters Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh (YHVH). It is often referred to as the Ineffable Name, the Unutterable Name or the Distinctive Name.
