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    Yahweh was the God of the Israelites, whose name was revealed to Moses as the tetragrammaton YHWH. After the Jewish exile, the name Yahweh was increasingly not used or spoken, instead being replaced with words like Elohim or Adonai. The Masoretes later added vowel points to YHWH to create the artificial name Jehovah. While Christian scholars used Jehovah, more recent scholars prefer the pronunciation Yahweh. The name likely means "He Brings into Existence Whatever Exists." Elohim, the Hebrew word for God, is a plural noun used in singular sense to refer to the one God of Israel, sometimes accompanied by

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    Yahweh was the God of the Israelites, whose name was revealed to Moses as the tetragrammaton YHWH. After the Jewish exile, the name Yahweh was increasingly not used or spoken, instead being replaced with words like Elohim or Adonai. The Masoretes later added vowel points to YHWH to create the artificial name Jehovah. While Christian scholars used Jehovah, more recent scholars prefer the pronunciation Yahweh. The name likely means "He Brings into Existence Whatever Exists." Elohim, the Hebrew word for God, is a plural noun used in singular sense to refer to the one God of Israel, sometimes accompanied by

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    Nombre de Dios para el Judaísmo según la Enciclopedia Britannica

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    Yahweh was the God of the Israelites, whose name was revealed to Moses as the tetragrammaton YHWH. After the Jewish exile, the name Yahweh was increasingly not used or spoken, instead being replaced with words like Elohim or Adonai. The Masoretes later added vowel points to YHWH to create the artificial name Jehovah. While Christian scholars used Jehovah, more recent scholars prefer the pronunciation Yahweh. The name likely means "He Brings into Existence Whatever Exists." Elohim, the Hebrew word for God, is a plural noun used in singular sense to refer to the one God of Israel, sometimes accompanied by

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    Yahweh

    Bible
    Written by: The Editors of Encyclopdia Britannica

    Alternative titles: Jehovah; YHWH


    Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, his name being revealed to Moses as four
    Hebrew consonants (YHWH) called the tetragrammaton. After the Exile (6th
    century BCE), and especially from the 3rd century

    BCE

    on, Jews ceased to use the

    name Yahweh for two reasons. As Judaism became a universal rather than a
    merely local religion, the more common noun Elohim, meaning God, tended to
    replace Yahweh to demonstrate the universal sovereignty of Israels God over all
    others. At the same time, the divine name was increasingly regarded as too sacred
    to be uttered; it was thus replaced vocally in thesynagogue ritual by the Hebrew
    word Adonai (My Lord), which was translated as Kyrios (Lord) in the Septuagint,
    the Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures.
    The Masoretes, who from about the 6th to the 10th century worked to reproduce
    the original text of theHebrew Bible, replaced the vowels of the name YHWH with
    the vowel signs of the Hebrew words Adonai or Elohim. Thus, the artificial name
    Jehovah (YeHoWaH) came into being. Although Christian scholars after the
    Renaissance and Reformation periods used the term Jehovah for YHWH, in the
    19th and 20th centuries biblical scholars again began to use the form Yahweh.
    Early Christian writers, such as Clement of Alexandria in the 2nd century, had used
    a form like Yahweh, and this pronunciation of the tetragrammaton was never really
    lost. Other Greek transcriptions also indicated that YHWH should be pronounced
    Yahweh.
    The meaning of the personal name of the Israelite God has been variously
    interpreted. Many scholars believe that the most proper meaning may be He
    Brings into Existence Whatever Exists (Yahweh-Asher-Yahweh). In I Samuel, God
    is known by the name Yahweh Teva-ot, or He Brings the Hosts into Existence,
    the hosts possibly referring to the heavenly court or to Israel.
    The personal name of God probably was known long before the time of Moses.
    The name of Moses mother was Jochebed (Yokheved), a word based on the name
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    Yahweh. Thus, the tribe of Levi, to which Moses belonged, probably knew the
    name Yahweh, which originally may have been (in its short form Yo, Yah, or Yahu)
    a religious invocation of no precise meaning evoked by the mysterious and
    awesome splendour of the manifestation of the holy.
    http://www.britannica.com/topic/Yahweh

    Elohim
    Hebrew god
    Alternative title: Eloah
    Elohim, singular Eloah , (Hebrew: God), the God of Israel in the Old Testament. A
    plural of majesty, the term Elohimthough sometimes used for other deities, such
    as the Moabite god Chemosh, the Sidonian goddess Astarte, and also for other
    majestic beings such as angels, kings, judges (the Old Testament shofeim),
    and

    the Messiahis usually employed in the Old Testament for the one and only God
    of Israel, whose personal name was revealed to Moses as YHWH, or Yahweh.
    When referring toYahweh, elohim very often is accompanied by the article ha-, to
    mean,

    in

    combination,

    the

    God,

    and

    sometimes

    with

    further

    identification Elohim h ayyim, meaning the living God.

    Though Elohim is plural in form, it is understood in the singular sense. Thus, in


    Genesis the words, In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heavens and the
    earth, Elohim is monotheistic in connotation, though its grammatical structure
    seems polytheistic. The Israelites probably borrowed the Canaanite plural noun
    Elohim and made it singular in meaning in their cultic practices and theological
    reflections.
    http://www.britannica.com/topic/Elohim

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