Tag: Yahwweh

Yet To Be #113

The names of the true and living God

The God of the Old Testament Bible is strong and powerful.  

The Creator. 

The One true and living God. 

His character is all holy and perfect. 

Omnipotence: God is all-powerful. 

“Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory and the majesty.” 1 Chronicle 29 verse 11. “The Lord the Creator of the ends of the earth faints not.” Isaiah 40 verse 28. “Who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed forever.” Psalm 104 verse 5. 

Omniscience: God is all-knowing. 

“Can anyone teach God knowledge?” Job 21 verse 22. “Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God.” Romans 11 verse 33. 

Omnipresence: God is everywhere at all times. 

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have built?” 1 Kings 8 verse 27.

“Am I a God at hand saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth?” Jeremiah 23 verse 23 and 24. 

Jehovah is the Latinized form of the Hebrew name transliterated four letters YHWH. The proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible. In English is pronounced Yahweh. 

Some of His names:

  1. El
  2. Elohim
  3. Elohei
  4. El Shaddai
  5. Jah
  6. Adonai
  7. Jehovah Nissi (Adonai-Nissi) – the Lord our banner. Exodus 17:8-15
  8. Jehovah -Roi – The Lord My Shepherd Psalms 23:1
  9. Jehovah Jehovah-Rapa – the Lord that health Exodus 15:26
  10. Shalom – the Lord our peace. Judges 6:24
  11. Jehovah – Jireh – The Lord will provide. Genesis 22:13-13
  12. Jehovah – Tsidkenu – the Lord our righteousness. Jeremiah 23:6

Yet To Be # 93

Adonai in Hebrew means God is my Lord.

Day 4 of May What’s in a Name…

Church on the hill

We name people or things to give them value or to put them in a category. Sometimes a given name is chosen on a lark or because of some significance. A name is how we are called and gives the owner of that name meaning.  

The God of the old testament has a name, Jehovah or Yahweh, Yehowah which is a hybrid form from Latin letters JHVH with the vowels of Adonai.  Adonai in Hebrew means God is my Lord. 

 This month of May is a new beginning where we will in this blog discuss and learn more about God, in so doing our relationship with him and understanding him will grow. And therefore, the more we read about him, the more our hearts yearn for him, to be close to him.  

And the Angel of the Lord said unto him, “Why ask thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret.” Judges 13:18