DISCLAIMER: I am NOT telling you what is the ONE and ONLY CORRECT version of the Name. In my own opinion, anyone that claims they have the ONE and ONLY TRUE/CORRECT Name hasn't done enough research. These next few comics are my studies on certain Names and the conclusion I came to with them. If you use one of these Names and don't agree with my conclusion, that is totally fine. I know many people that use each of these Names and we get along just fine. This disclaimer will be at the top of all the commentaries for the different Names.

Language has always been something that has fascinated me. Early on in my childhood, I wanted to be an English teacher. Later, this turned into an interest in Spanish. Then Russian. Then Hebrew. There are several other minor stints in there, too, such as Anglish. As I point out in the comic, when looking into the Name and what it is, I needed to consider how Hebrew works. The example English words both have origins in Old English, and Old Germanic before that. However, they are from two different words that were spelt differently back then, even though they are spelt similarly today.

Hebrew isn't like English in that aspect, but it does have root words that every other word is built on. The Name of God, listed in the Hebrew is יהוה. Hebrew is a language that consists of only consonants. However, some of these consonants do perform the work of vowels. You will often see people try to replicate God's Name in English as YHWH, or YHVH, or YHUH. The first two, pointing out the consonant equivalents in English. The last is the Name I want to speak of today: Yahuah.

Yahuah is very popular among those that utilize the Eth Cepher translation of the Bible. It asserts that since יהודה (Yahudah, or as we know it, Judah) is the same as God's Name, but just has a ד added to it, then we just use that name and remove the ד sound to get the pronunciation: Yahuah.

Using the point I make in the comic and the first part of this commentary, we can quickly see that this isn't a valid way to figure out how to pronounce the Name. Yahudah has a root word of ידה (yada), meaning to throw, shoot or cast. YHWH has a root word of היה (hayah), meaning to exist. We can't just take the ד out of Yahudah because that ד is a critical part of its word structure, part of its root. YHWH's root word, doesn't have that ד, nor is it related to the root of Yahudah.

With this information, I moved on from this pronunciation. Again, if you use it, I have no issue that you do. This is just my own research on the subject.

https://thestraightandnarrow.cfw.me/comics/572

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