Astonishing as it may sound, prior to the sixteenth century, the word "Jehovah," was unheard of. Whenever the origin of this word appeared in its true Hebrew form in Jewish Scriptures (read from right to left as in Arabic) Yet, Huh, Wav, Huh; or Y.H.W.H. these four letters were preceded by a substitute word "Adonai," to warn the reader that the following word was not to be articulated. The Jews took meticulous care in repeating this exercise in their "Book of God" six thousand, eight hundred and twenty-three times - interpolating the words "Adonai" or "Elohim." They sincerely believed that this awesome name of God was never to be pronounced.
If Jehovah is the name of God Almighty, and if the 27 Books of the New Testament were inspired by Him, then it is an anomaly of the highest order, that He (Jehovah) signally failed to have His Own Name recorded in "His Word" (N.T.) the Christian addition to the Jewish Bible. The Christians claim that they have in their possession over twenty-four thousand so-called "originals" of their Holy Writ in the Greek language, and yet not a single parchment has "Jehovah" written in it. Curiously this "name of God" (?) has been sacrilegiously replaced by the Greek words ky'ri.os and the.os', which mean 'Lord' and 'God.'
What then is a "tetragrammaton!". "Tetra," in Greek means FOUR, and "grammaton," means LETTERS. It simply means "a four letter word." You cannot read into Y H W H the word Jehovah without adding vowels to these four consonents to produce the sound. Originally, both Hebrew and Arabic were written without the vowel signs The native of each language was able to read if even without those vowels. Not so the outsider, for whose benefit the vowels were invented.
However, after adding the vowels YHWH becomes YeHoWaH, but not Jehovah! Use of the "J" is considered the 'popular' pronunciation from the 16th century. The exact sound of the four letters YHWH is known neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles, yet the Jehovahs Witness is ramming JEHOVAH down everyones throats. The European Christians have developed a fondness for the letter "J". They add J's where there are no Jays:
Yael converts to
Joel
Yehuda...to.....
Juda
Yeheshua.to.....
Joshua
Yusuf....to.....
Joseph
Yunus....to.....
Jonah
Yesus....to.....
Jesus
Yehowa...to.....
Jehovah
The letters Y H W H occur in the Hebrew (Jewish) Scriptures 6 823 times, boasts the Jehovah's Witness, and it occurs in combination with the word "Elohim;" 156 times in the booklet called Genesis alone. This combination YHWH/ELOHIM has been consistently translated in the English Bible as "Lord God," "Lord God," Lord God," ad infinitum.
What is YHWH; and what is ELOHIM? Since the lews did not articulate the word YHWH for centuries, and since even the Chief Rabbis would not allow the ineffable to be heard, they have forfeited the right to claim dogmatically how the word is to be sounded. We have to seek the aid of the Arab to revive Hebrew, a language which had once died out. In every linguistic difficulty recourse has to be made to Arabic, a sister language, which has remained alive and viable. Racially and linguistically, the Arabs and the Jews have a common origin, going back to Father Abraham. Note the startling resemblance between the languages, very often the same sounding words carry identical meaning in both.
HEBREW.......ARABIC..........ENGLISH
Elah..............Ilah...............god
Ikhud............Ahud..............one
Yaum............Yaum.............day
Shalom..........Salaam...........peace
Yahuwa..........Ya Huwa.........oh he
YHWH or Yehova or Yahuwa all mean the very same thing. "Ya" is a vocative and an exclamatory particle in both Hebrew and Arabic, meaning Oh! And "Huwa" or "Hu" means He, again in both Hebrew and Arabic. Together they mean Oh He! So instead of YHWH ELOHIM, we now have Oh He! ELOHIM.
Edited from:
WHAT IS HIS NAME?
by Ahmaad Deedat
http://jamaat.net/name/nameintro.htm