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why would He preserve His name in hebrew?

We might as well ask why did Moses preserve God's name in Hebrew?
OR
Why did Tyndale translate God's name from a Hebrew Text?
OR
Why did the the KJV translators translate God's name from a Hebrew Text?

Why couldn't God have provided King James with a perfect English King James Bible in 1600 A.D.?

Exodus

Hi lltj

Has the pronunciation of lltj been preserved in 2008?

Could you write the pronunciation in your reply?

What are the first two letters of your name?

I can cut and paste them, but I cannot write them from my keyboard.
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You wrote.

"God preserved Moses's orginal hebrew name? Where did you get that from?"

I certainly believe that God must have preserved His Hebrew name when Jesus was alive.
History informs us that the High priest was pronouncing God's Hebrew name in the Temple of Jerusalem up to the time that the Temple was destroyed in about 70 A.D.

If God could preserve the punctuation of His Hebrew name in 70 A.D. , why couldn't he preserve the pronunciation of His Hebrew name in 2008 A.D.?

The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon of 1905 says that it is "Yahweh",
as does the Roman Catholic Church in 2008.


While the King James Bible preserves God's name as "Jehovah", the editors of Jewish Encyclopedia of 1901-1906 clearly say that Jehovah is not God's name.

Exodus

Hi lltj

You wrote:

"It seems you are trying to say that pronunication can not be preserved?"
"Are you agreeing with me?"

I do not know whether or not the correct pronunciation of God's name can be preserved or not, but I feel reasonably confident that God's name was not pronounced "Jehovah" or "Yehovah" by the Jewish people.

It is at least possible that God's name "MAY" have been pronounced "Yahweh" [or maybe "Yahaweh"]

I need to use weasel words when discussing the pronunciation or spelling of God's name.


You also asked:

"Also... What value do you think there is in knowing the exact Hebrew name of God?"

KJVO Christians believe that it is importent to call God by the name "Jehovah", but there seems to almost a 100% concensus among Jewish sources, that the Jewish people never believed that God's name was "Jehovah". However many verses in the Hebrew Bible make known that God wanted His name to be made known.


You also asked:

"Are you saying I can't call God Jehovah?"
"Do you think I will get in trouble with God if I do?"
"I reckon you think Jesus is a bad name too?"

You can call God Jehovah if you want to.
I have no way of knowing whether or not you will get into any trouble if you call God "Jehovah"
However, to be redundant, there is a lot of evidence from Jewish sources,
that the Masoretes never meant for that Hebrew word
(that James Strong designates as Hebrew word #3068)
to be read as (Y)Jehovah.

To be redundant, I certainly do not know if you will get in trouble for calling God Jehovah.

I do not even know that if God's name actually was Jehovah, did the King James translators get into any trouble
when they translated Hebrew word # 3068 as "the LORD", over 6000 times and only as "JEHOVAH" 4 times
and as "Jehovah-xxx" 3 times.

Of course the English name "Jesus" is extremely unlikely to represent the actual pronunciation of God's Messiah's actual Hebrew name, however there has been concensus between the English speaking Roman Catholic Church and the English speaking Protestant Church since at least 1769 that Christ's Greek name will be translated as "Jesus".

Exodus