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How to pronounce yhvh in English?

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Synonyms jahvey, jahweh, jehovah, jhvh, wahvey, yahve, yahveh, yahwe, yahweh, yhwh

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The historical pronunciation of YHVH is suggested by Christian scholars to be Yahweh.
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The New Testament also ascribes the name to Jesus, who most Christians believe is YHVH incarnate.
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The spirit of YHVH has departed from most of the churches in America because of the spirit of apostasy.
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It is written as YHWH, YHVH, or JHVH in English, depending on the transliteration convention that is used.
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The G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was known by the four-letter name YHVH, which is left unpronounced today.
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Later medieval Christian Biblical scholars took this vowel substitution for the actual spelling of YHVH and transliterated the name of God literally as Jehovah.
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  • Yahweh: a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
  • The tetragrammaton (from Greek u03A4u03B5u03C4u03C1u03B1u03B3u03C1u03ACu03BCu03BCu03B1u03C4u03BFu03BD, meaning " four letters",) is the Hebrew theonym u05D9u05D4u05D5u05D4, commonly transliterated into Latin letters as YHWH. It is one of the names of God used in the Hebrew Bible. The name may be derived from a verb that means "to be", "to exist", "to cause to become", or "to come to pass".
  • Four letters (Yod Heh Vav Heh) which stand for the highest Hebrew name for God, which is considered unknown and unpronounceable. These letters are also attributed to the four elements of fire, water, air, and earth. Often referred to as the Tetragrammaton.
  • The personal and most frequent name of God found in the Hebrew Scriptures. Also spelled YHWH by scholarly convention. The letters stand for Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey. While Christians commonly spell the name as Yahweh, this proposed vocalization is not found in any extant Hebrew Text. ...