Where is the name Jehovah mentioned in the Bible?

Answer 1

A:

Jehovah is sometimes used as an English translation of YHWH, a name for God believed to have been pronounced Yahweh. This name was most commonly used in the Pentateuch by the anonymous source now known to scholars as the Yahwist, but was also occasionally used by the Priestly Source. The first use of the tetragrammaton, YHWH, is in Genesis 1:4.

Other names were used for God by various authors over the centuries during which the Old Testament was being written, such as Elohim, El Shaddai and Adonai. English translations tend to use 'God' or 'Lord' consistently for all references to God, whether the original Hebrew reference was to YHWH or some other name for God.

Another Answer:

Though mentioned 7 times in the King James Version of 1611 AD, (see Genesis 22:14, Exodus 6:3; 17:15, Judges 6:24, Psalm 83:18, Isaiah 12:2 and 16:4), it is no longer used in subsequent 'word for word' translations like the New King James or the Revised Standard Version (also NRSV).

The term "Jehovah" is, according to Webster's Dictionary, "an erroneous rendering of the ineffable [inexpressible] name JHVH [or YHVH or YHWH] in the Hebrew scriptures." Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary adds:

"The divine name Yahweh is usually translated Lord in English versions of The Bible, because it became a practice in late Old Testament Judaism not to pronounce the sacred name YHWH, but to say instead 'my Lord' (Adonai)-a practice still used today in the synagogue. When the vowels of Adonai were attached to the consonants YHWH in the medieval period, the word Jehovah resulted. Today, many Christians use the word Yahweh, the more original pronunciation, not hesitating to name the divine name since Jesus taught believers to speak in a familiar way to God."