This is my Name - יהוה and אהיה (Part 2 of 2)

Examining Exodus 3:13-15 from an Ancient Hebrew perspective. Within this passage is the phrase אהיה אשר אהיה (ehyeh asher ehyeh - I am who I am) and the two names Elohiym gives Mosheh (Moses), אהיה (ehyeh) and יהוה (yhwh). These two names, related to the phrase אהיה אשר אהיה, have a meaning and pronunciation that is often overlooked.

One thing that I did not point out in the video that I should have, is that the pronunciations I provide for Hebrew and the name YHWH are based on the traditional pronunciation of Hebrew. While it is impossible to prove the modern pronunciation of Hebrew is the original pronunciation, we still cannot know for certainty how the name was pronounced. But, as I point out in the video, the actual pronunciation is not what the Bible teaches is important, but what the character of the name is.

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[glorrifiedTorah]

Excellent teaching as are all from you are

[ancienthebreworg]

@glorrifiedTorah Thank you.

[sbz666283]

@ancienthebreworg One thing to remember is that the divine name was never taught to anyone. Only the high priest was allowed to pronounce it.Once per year the high priest would call God out by name. The vowel points are lost for good. The only reason the consenent letters are known is cause they are the only part of the name allowed to be written down.

[ancienthebreworg]

@sbz666283 The idea that only the High Priest pronounced the name is only a tradition within Judaism, but the textual evidence says that in Ancient times everyone was pronouncing the name, even the Pharaoh of Egypt. Also, the vowel points are not lost, they were added to the text. The name יהוה, as well as every other Hebrew name in the Hebrew Bible, were never written with vowel points.

[ancienthebreworg]

@Angelist44 In the name Yehudah, the vav is at the end of a syllable and will therefore take a vowel sound-U, but in the name YHWH, the vav is at the beginning of a syllable and will therefore take a vowel sound consonantal sound-W. When people make assumptions about pronouncing Hebrew names, without knowing the rules of grammar and morphology, great mistakes are made.

[Truth1949]

It seems to me that when our god says his own name that he uses, naturally, the first person because of the type of name it is and it's meaning. When he tells us what to call him, as in verse 15 he uses the third person. We wouldn't say "I exist". We would say "He exists". Anyway, that's just the way it seems to me.

[8Anya8]

@RoyalStrings,The book of Exodus centers around the covenant name of YHVH which was hidden from former generations but now to be revealed in his taking a nation out of a nation to make his very own.

As he said to Moses; I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the YHVH I did not make myself known to them.

The ehyeh asher ehyeh then should be taken in context with his covenant name, not as a proper name but as pointing to it.

[joseymaru]

The masoretics started to add vowels AND they refused to write the name of Yah. Therefore, one cannot trust the Masorstics about how the name was pronounced because they did not want people to pronounce the name of Yahweh..Thus, they taught a false pronounciation of the name as :Yihweh, Yehovah, etc. Any version that the masoretics say to be the correct version I will search other way to pronounce it..In Tehillim (Psalms 68:4; Yah is his name)..That is the clue to know the name..

[RoyalStrings]

@8Anya8 Huh, and according to the Scriptures, Jesus, or according to this video Yi'shua or Yiho'shua, said "Unless you believe that I am, you shall die in your sins," and again "Before Abraham was, I am." It's clear by the Greek that He literally did say I am. It is also clear that Jesus is the perfect and complete revelation of God. So... Maybe God said He will be in Exodus, referring to His complete Revelation in Christ, and as Christ come He can now claim to be I am?

[RoyalStrings]

@sbz666283 If that's true, then I have a question.

Exo_9:16 "But, indeed, for this reason I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My name through all the earth."

Gen_21:33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yih'weh, the Everlasting God.

Joe_2:32 "And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of Yih'weh Will be saved."

Why did He say that ^ if what you say is true?

[ancienthebreworg]

@israaeel144 Not at all, hope it helps.

[israaeel144]

@ancienthebreworg Would you mind if I use this video for teaching purposes?

[sbz666283]

@Shachah223 The rabbi's debate that if the messiah comes and they ask him the actual vowel points, and he tells them then is the new vowel points just as valid as the old ones. that question will be raised too. for know its a best guess.

[sbz666283]

@Shachah223 yes in hebrew the J and W don't really exist, remember hebrew has 22 letters to english 26. and some hebrew letters are repeats with only a slight change in script. at the end of YHVH you have VH the actual vowel is lost to history. as the only ones who knew the actual vowel points where killed off. it is understood that first century jews did not know it back then.

[sbz666283]

@telarad613 besides that hebrew Scholars jews for well over 2000 years have tried to find the correct vowels and not found them anywhere. For Strongs vowels are placed down. the closest understood is with is yeho- in strongs number (3083) and the vah at the end. the problem is that that is the closest. there are 20,000 possible vowel combinations it could be. The rest of hebrew is well known save for a few words like this. adding any vowel points to the YHVH divine name is a guess.