Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>]

While it is true that the watchtower society has no official doctrine on the 
hebrew pronunciation it is not true that there are no publications or 
articles 
that have discussed this. A couple of years ago the watchtower featured an 
article that discussed this topic and favoured a trisyllabic pronunciation 
wit the vowel pattern yeho/yaho/yahu. This was based on a discussion of the 
theophoric name components.
The form Jehovah is used because it the accepted *English* form. The Italian 
publications use the form Geova. The Spanish publications use the form  
Jehova 
(pronounced kheyoba'). The Russian publications use the form Yegovi. An 
effort 
is made to use the form which has been received into each respective language 
just as is the practice with all other biblical names.

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Subject: [b-hebrew] Just a clarification about YHWH and JWs
 
Dear list members,

Some weeks ago, during the discussion about the pronunciation of YHWH, 
Jehovah's witnesses were mentioned among other groups. This is just to 
clarify that we (since I'm one of JWs) don't have any doctrine related to 
the Hebrew pronunciation. We use the form "Jehovah" just because it is the 
traditional form, the most common and most widely used in a lot of languages 
in the world, not because we supposedly believe YeHoWaH was the original 
pronunciation. Our publications have never claim that, and the issue of what 
could have been the original pronunciation is just a question of curiosity 
for us. If a form like YaHWeH, YaHo or whatever could be proved it didn't 
have an impact in our set of beliefs.
A little off-topic, but since we've been alluded I decided to clear this up.

Sergio


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Dear Sergio,

Thanks for the clarification. The same is true for Jewish tradition. Since
Jewish tradition (at least since the Second Temple period) universally
prohibits the pronunciation of the "Ineffable Name", using "Adonai",
"Hashem" etc. instead, the entire discussion, while interesting (up to the
point at which it became tediously repetitive), is entirely academic.

Yigal

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Subject: [b-hebrew] Just a clarification about YHWH and JWs


> Dear list members,
>
> Some weeks ago, during the discussion about the pronunciation of YHWH,
> Jehovah's witnesses were mentioned among other groups. This is just to
> clarify that we (since I'm one of JWs) don't have any doctrine related to
> the Hebrew pronunciation. We use the form "Jehovah" just because it is the
> traditional form, the most common and most widely used in a lot of
languages
> in the world, not because we supposedly believe YeHoWaH was the original
> pronunciation. Our publications have never claim that, and the issue of
what
> could have been the original pronunciation is just a question of curiosity
> for us. If a form like YaHWeH, YaHo or whatever could be proved it didn't
> have an impact in our set of beliefs.
> A little off-topic, but since we've been alluded I decided to clear this
up.
>
> Sergio
>
>
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