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Shortly after the time of Nehemiah, a group of Jews lived on the island of Elephantine. From their writings we conclude that they pronounced YHWH as "yahu. How did "Yahweh" become "Jehovah? They decided it was too holy to say, so whenever they came across the name, they would say adhon "Lord" instead.
Eventually, knowledge of how to pronounce YHWH died out. The Septuagint version translated the Hebrew scriptures into Greek. It was done about B. Jumping ahead to about AD, Jewish scholars, known as the Masoretes, realized that knowledge of how to pronounce Hebrew was dying out. They introduced a system of vowel pointers above and below the text, so as to not change the actual sacred writings.
These vowel pointers tell the reader what vowel sounds to use for the various words. However, since YHWH was always pronounced adhon when read and no one probably remembered the real pronunciation by then , the vowels pointers for adhon was placed around YHWH.
If the verse contained adhon yhwh , they then put the vowel pointers from the word elohim "God" around YHWH. Hence, "Jehovah" was born. Browse Our Archives.
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