Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net>]

At 09:57 AM 8/23/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear friend,
>
>Is this right? YHVH = haShem

Well, hashem is the way the divine name is rendered when one wishes to show
it extreme reverence.  In fact, YWHW is most probably pronounced Yahweh; but
in Judaism there is a great hesitancy to pronounce the name because of its
sacredness... so instead of saying the name of God they just say "The NAME"
which, in Hebrew is hashem.

>
>Some one literally translated YHVH as haShem.  Is there any connection 
>between
>the two? Is there any histroy or theological reason behind it?

See above.

>
>Thanks,
>
>Yousaf.

Best,

Jim

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