The word YAHUDAH is the doorway to the actual sound. Another name seen in Scripture shares the last two letters, UAU-HAY:
Adam's wife's name! (see the Hebrew interlinear for this name at Gen/Bereshith 3:20).
HETH-UAU-HAY = KUAH (K+UAH)
Her name has the same ending two letters as the Name YAHUAH (UAU+HAY, UAH).
Below, in tan lettering, is shown the palaeo-Hebrew script, which is the way the Name of YAHUAH looked as He wrote His personal Name in the stone tablets at Sinai with his own finger. It is read from right-to-left. The letters are YOD, HAY, UAU, HAY. Our letter, "W" is a new letter, and is really what it is called: a "double-U" (UU). There's actually no letter in Hebrew that matches it better than our letter, "U" - there's not a letter W in Hebrew, but you'll see it rendered "waw" and "uau". At the bottom, you see the Name of YAHUSHA, which is the real Name which most people have been taught is "JESUS". In the center is the word "YAHUDAH", which serves as a litmus test for how to really pronounce the Name -- it contains all four letters of the Name, but has the letter "DALET" (D) inserted just before the last letter. (The letter called "waw" is better described as "uau"): "Whenever I said, Let me not mention Him, nor speak in His Name again, it was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones. And I became weary of holding it back, and was helpless." YIRMEYAHU 20:9
The word YAHUDAH is the doorway to the actual sound. The Hebrew script above is the "autograph", the personal inscription of the Name which Yahuah used at Sinai. "Modern" Hebrew letters are really Babylonian letters, brought back with the Yahudim after their captivity of 70 years. The written language of the Creator, especially how He wrote His own Name with His finger, should be a subject of interest for those who claim to belong to Him.
Chris Deweese
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1943.htm
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We prefer the literal sound of the letters as they appear comparatively in other Hebrew words, and the closest word using the identical letters in the same order as the Name happens to be:
YAHUDAH (the fourth son of Leah, and the name of the tribe / family from which springs all those who today call themselves "Jews".
This man's name is spelled, in Hebrew:
YOD-HAY-UAU-DALETH-HAY
Notice the underlined letters, and imagine the sound of this word without the sound of the "D":
YOD-HAY-UAU-DALETH-HAY
Clement of Alexandria trans-lettered the Name from Hebrew into Greek using the following: IAOUE
JEHOVAH? "Hovah" is a modern Hebrew word meaning wicked, destruction; but the letter "V" is an error of recent times. When the 16th and 17th writers of English letters used this "V", it did not have the sound we think of today. Also, the "J" was simply the letter "i" with a tail, from the Greek letter iota; this was used to convey the Hebrew letter YOD.
The letters we used today, U,V, & W all come from the sixth letter of the Hebrew alef-beth, UAU. The Hebrew letter was originally shaped "Y", and went into the Greek with the same shape, and called "UPSILON". When this Greek letter was brought into the Latin, it lost the lower stem, and became the shape "V" (but it still retained the sound of our modern "U", as in GLADIVS - sword - pronounced "GLADIUS". So, when the spelling "JEHOVAH" was pronounced by English readers it sounded like "YAHUAH", since the HOVAH was really "HOUAH". Time and other lingual influences corrupted the proper understanding of the letters as this word was used over the generations.
The limitations of electronic text communications (like this) cause us to use the Latin letters "YHUH" as an abbreviated form for the four letters of Yod (Y), Hay (H), Uau (U), Hay (H). YaHUaH is another way of rendering the four letters, and probably more accurate
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yod-hay-uau-dalet-hay yod-hay-uau-hay
The word YAHUDAH is the doorway to the actual sound
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