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'''Jehovah''' is a personal name of [[God]] used four times in the [[King James Version]]. It is transliterated from the standard Hebrew text of the Old Testament, or Masoretic version. Modern scholars have concluded that the Masorites intentionally misspelled this word to prevent God's name from being pronounced accidentally. Pre-Masoretic manuscripts represent this word, called the [[Tetragrammaton]], using four consonants: יהוה (read right to left). The exact pronunciation is not known, but "Yahweh" is conventional.  

'''Jehovah''' is a personal name of [[God]] used in the [[King James Version]]. It is an attempt to transliterate the [[tetragrammaton]] used in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. In the Hebrew text, this word is given as ''Yĕhovah'' or YHWH. Modern scholars have concluded that medieval Jewish scholars intentionally inserted incorrect vowels into an ancient consonant-only text. They did this to prevent God's true name from being pronounced accidentally. The original pronunciation of the tetragrammaton is not known, but "Yahweh" is conventional among modern scholars.  

==Usage in the King James Version==

==Usage in the King James Version==

In the King James Version, there are four examples of the name Jehovah:

There are over six thousand examples of the tetragrammaton in scripture. In English, this word is typically indicated with an all-caps "LORD" or "GOD." In four cases, the King James Version gives the divine name as "JEHOVAH":

*"And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them." (Exodus 6:3)

*"And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them." (Exodus 6:3)

*"That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth." (Psalms 83:18)

*"That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth." (Psalms 83:18)

In most Bible translations, the titles [[GOD]] or LORD (note both are in all capitals) are used whenever the divine name appears in the original Hebrew text.

In most Bible translations, the titles [[GOD]] or LORD (note both are in all capitals) are used whenever the divine name appears in the original Hebrew text.

The Divine Name appears over 6,800 times in the Hebrew-Aramaic portion of the Holy Scriptures, but until the destruction of the [[Second Temple]] it was only pronounced by the Jewish high priest on Yom Kippur. Over time, the practice of substituting "Adonai" (Sovereign Lord) or "Elohim" (God) to avoid accidentally profaning the Name became Rabbinic tradition, and the name's true pronunciation was lost. The pronunciation "Jehovah" comes from inserting the Hebrew vowels of the word "Adonai" into the Latinized tetragrammaton ("JHVH") and likely bears little resemblance to how the Name was originally pronounced, although to consider this theory, we would also have to reconsider the pronunciation of Jesus, Jeremiah, Jehu, Jehoram, Joshua, and many other people and place names, to make sure that these names sounded closer to the original.

The divine name appears over 6,800 times in the Hebrew-Aramaic portion of the Holy Scriptures, but until the destruction of the [[Second Temple]] it was only pronounced by the Jewish high priest on Yom Kippur. Over time, the practice of substituting "Adonai" (Sovereign Lord) or "Elohim" (God) to avoid accidentally profaning the Name became Rabbinic tradition, and the name's true pronunciation was lost. The pronunciation "Jehovah" comes from inserting the Hebrew vowels of the word "Adonai" into the Latinized tetragrammaton ("JHVH") and likely bears little resemblance to how the Name was originally pronounced, although to consider this theory, we would also have to reconsider the pronunciation of Jesus, Jeremiah, Jehu, Jehoram, Joshua, and many other people and place names, to make sure that these names sounded closer to the original.

==Meaning==

==Meaning==