The True Pronunciation of the Sacred Name
If you are truly serious as I am about loving and pleasing God; we need to know
His name through fact rather than words of man without strong backing.
Do you know God's Name? The Creator Himself tells us what His Name is; and it
is easy to identify in the original Hebrew of the Old Testament. But His Name has
become clouded and confused by erroneous translations, corrupted manuscripts
and Jewish tradition. Some say His Name is "God" or "LORD" -- but these are
titles rather than personal names. Can we know, then, God's TRUE Name?
Over the years various people have taken the time to count the number of times the
Old Testament contains the inspired Name of the Creator God. However, since
there are several variations, contractions and expansions of the Holy Name, there is
no real agreement on just how many times it is used.
According to some it is approximately 7,000 times. This is, it turns out, far more
than any other name -- and more than any other basic word used in the entire
Bible!
The Name consists of four Hebrew consonants -- yod, hay, vav, hay -- and is
referred to as HaShem HaGadol, "The Great Name" in the Hebrew language. The
English equivalent is Y H V H. The Greeks simply called it the Tetragrammaton --
"the four letters."
The English translators of the King James Version of the Bible have utilized a
unique form of the title "lord" to represent this great Name. The first letter L is
CAPITAL in form -- large size. The remaining three letters are SINGLE in size,
but CAPITAL in form -- thus LORD. This arrangement is used by the King James
Version and some other translations; however there are many translations that do
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