God has a name what is it?

Answer 1

The Creator of the universe, as depicted in the TaNaKh, never stated a name. In the story of the burning bush in Exodus, God is asked by Moshe for a name to tell the people. God's answer is most often translated as "I Am Who I Am", and can also be rendered in the future tense ("I Will Be Who I Will Be") -- essentially a non-answer, since in the ancient world to acquire the name of someone or something is to have a degree of dominion over it.

In other sections of the TaNaKh, God's name is rendered as the Tetragrammaton, or "Four Letters". In Jewish thought, God's name is too precious and awesome to be spoken, and thus when the scriptures were read aloud the word Elohim was most often used. The Tetragrammaton is YHVH

. In Hebrew, vowels are not used, so theologians have guessed at the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton. Today, most religious groups agree that "Yahweh" (YA-way) or "Yahveh" (Ya-VAY), are correct pronunciations. Over centuries of Christian influence and translation of the Tetragrammaton, the Ys were changed to Is (in Latin) and then to Js in English. Jehovah is a common older version of the Tetragrammaton, still used by King James-reading Christians and Jehovah's Witnesses. For many, "JEHOVAH" is translated as "HE CAUSES TO BECOME"- IT CAN BE FOUND AT PSALMS 83:18, INSIGHT TO THE SCRIPTURES...................

In Islam, God's name is rendered as Allah (A-LAH), and there is a tradition from the Q'Ran which provides 99 wonderful attributes of Allah.