Who do Jews call Yahweh?

Answer 1

Jews do NOT, nor ever have, called HaShem (G-d) "Yahweh", that is a Christian word. The invention of the word 'Yahweh' was based on a lack of understanding about Jewish traditions regarding the tetragrammaton.

Answer 2

'YHWH', known as the Tetragrammaton and believed to have been pronounced 'Yahweh' was the name given to God by the people of the southern pre-Exilic kingdom of Judah. So, really, Jesus himself is not called YHWH, but God may be.

Answer 3

The word Yahweh is not a Jewish term. It is actually the result of a medieval misunderstanding, when the first Catholic monks attempted to learn Hebrew and didn't understand a Jewish custom about the four consonants of God's true name.

Jews have 72 different words for God, but in general, they refer to God as "Adonai" or "Elohim" in prayer, and "Hashem" when not in prayer.

God's actual name is never pronounced, and in fact, the vowels of the name are lost. We only know the for consonants YHVH. When we come to this word in The Bible or in a prayer, "Adonai" is substituted.

In Christian Bibles, when you see the words "THE LORD" in all capital letters, the original text really reads YHVH.

Answer 4

Jewish Answer

HaShem's true name is represented by the letters 'yud, hei, vav, hei', which in turn, are represented by the English letters of YHVH. His true name was only used in the Temple, and with the Temple's destruction we have lost the correct pronunciation.

In the Tanach (Jewish Bible), there are 72 different 'names' used for HaShem in the original Hebrew. In truth, these are not actual names, but rather, descriptions of Him that are based on the context of the discussion. In daily conversation, most Jews call him HaShem which means 'The Name' in reference to His true name.

The words Yahweh, Jehovah, and any variation are Christian in origin and have never been used by Jews. (There is no 'J' or 'W' in the Hebrew language.)

Non-Jewish Answer

YHVH named himself thank you very much.

YHVH or YHWH - the four letters of the name preserved in Hebrew texts. Since vowels were not included, the exact pronunciation has not been preserved. Some scholars believe that it is pronounced Yahweh; it is not often used. Jehovah is the most widely recognized English pronunciation.

The divine name is a verb, the causative form, the imperfect state, of the Hebrew verb ha•wah', "to become." Therefore, the divine name means "He Causes To Become."

Many translators, for varying reasons, have replaced the proper name with titles, such as Adonai (the Lord) or Elohim (the Supreme, or the true God). This has led to much confusion among Christianity as well as Islam as to what the name of God is; causing many to believe that these titles are actually proper names, despite the fact that in any other context of life - your boss at work and their name, a child's school teacher and their proper name, a cat and the name you gave it - people automatically recognize the difference between a name and a title. But on the topic of God (in these two very large religious spheres), the elementary difference between name and title is cast aside without question by many.

Answer 5

No. This word is a Christian mispronunciation of the Hebrew letters YHVH, which is the name of G-d, but is forbidden to be pronounced out loud. Jehovah was created by accident by the first Christians to learn Hebrew in the Middle Ages, who didn't understand the Jewish tradition of placing the vowel indicators for the word Adonai around the tetragrammaton (YHVH). The word Jehovah has never been used by Jews.