| − | '''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 modern Hebrew, or Masoretic, text this word is given as ''Yĕhovah''. Medieval Jewish scholars inserted incorrect vowels into an ancient consonant-only text 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. | + | '''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 modern Hebrew, or Masoretic, text this word is given as ''Yĕhovah''. Medieval Jewish scholars inserted incorrect vowels into an ancient consonant-only text 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. The 1611 KJV uses the Divine Name Jehovah in 4 places, though the Divine Name itself occurs around 7000 times in the Bible. A more recent [[Divine Name King James Bible]] restores the Divine Name to all 7000 places: "Restores the Almighty God's Divine Name, JEHOVAH, to 6973 places and, JAH, in 50 places ... Contains the Divine Name Concordance which lists 7023 occurrences of God's Divine Name." <ref>https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Name-King-James-Bible/dp/1513601466</ref> |