On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:03 -0700, James E. Henderson wrote: > Paul G. Allen wrote: > > >Because the word "Creator" is capitalized, the implication is he is > >speaking about God (to be more specific, Jehova, the God of the Jews and > >the Christian God). Why? Because it has always been the standard > >practice, when referring to Jevoha, to always capitalize He, Him, God, > >Creator, or any other word that refers to Him. > > > > > > That's JHVH. Actually, to be more accurate, it's the Hebrew characters > most closely corresponding to JHVH or JHWH, sometimes written as > Jehovah, sometimes as Jahveh or Jahweh, to suggest particular > pronunciations, but the way it is actually, historically, pronounced has > been lost. >
The original spelling begins with the English letter "Y". Because I can't remember the spelling, and I have no references here, I can't provide it here (maybe I can find it in a Google search, but last time I did it took more time than I want to spend while I'm supposed to be working. As for pronunciation, It's usually something like "Yah-way". Correction, I did find a reference in a quick search: Yahweh (yä'wĕ) , modern reconstruction of YHWH, the ancient Hebrew ineffable name for God. Other forms are Jah, Jahve, Jahveh, Jahweh, Jehovah, Yahve, Yahveh, and Yahwe. PGA -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
