“Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists?
Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is His Name, and what is His Son’s Name, If you know?” (Proverb 30:4, NKJV)
“Therefore My people shall know My name; Therefore they shall know in that day that I am He who speaks: ‘Behold, it is I.” (Isaiah 52:6, NKJV)
“In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.” (Exodus 20:24b, NKJV)
Are You a truth seeker? Do you know that our Creator’s Name has been mentioned almost 7000 times in the original Hebrew Scriptures? But unfortunately, the word “LORD” takes the place of the true Name of our Creator in the majority of versions of Bible translations.
Did the Bible translators and publishers have the right to change the Name of our Creator?
Of course not! No one has the right to change or replace our Creator’s Name except our Creator Himself. The name does matter! Nobody has the authority to change our Creator and Savior’s Name or replace His Name with other words such as “The LORD” or “LORD” or “GOD” unless Elohim Himself does that.
Do you know that the word “God” or “Lord” is a title only?
The title “God” is not the true title used to refer to our Creator according to the original Hebrew Scripture. (Ancient Hebrew Writing) / (Paleo Hebrew Writing)/ (Modern Hebrew Full Writing) / (Modern Hebrew Defective Writing) (Pronounced as “Elohim”) means “Almighty”, “the Mighty One”, “the Strong One” and it is the True Written Title used to refer to the Almighty, our Creator in the Hebrew Scripture. Below are some relevant quotes from Wikipedia to prove this:
“Elohim (Hebrew: אֱלֹהִים [ʔɛloːˈhim])” (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim)
“Elohim occurs frequently throughout the Torah.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim).
The first verse of Genesis states that “In the beginning, created the heavens and the earth. We can see that the pronunciation “God” is not the true pronunciation of (pronounced as “Elohim” in Hebrew).
Let’s see the evidence of this from Genesis 1:1 explanation of Wikipedia.
“The verse in the Masoretic Text consists of 7 words and 28 letters and is as follows:
- Unvocalized: בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ
- Vocalized: בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ
- Transliterated: Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve’et ha’aretz.” (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis 1:1)
There are many titles of our Creator in the Scriptures, such as (Alef-Tav), (“I Am”), (Elohim), (The Most High), (El Shaddai), (The Creator), (Adonai), (Abba/Father), (The Ancient of Days), (The Savior), (The El of Elohim), (Elohim of Hosts), (The Elohim of Yisrael), (The Everlasting Elohim), (The Elohim of All Flesh), (The Living Elohim), ( The Healer), (The Judge), (The King of kings), and (the Master of All).
The Qodesh Name of Our Creator
Our Creator’s Name in Full Writing is // . (Ancient Hebrew Writing)/ (Paleo Hebrew Writing), (Modern Hebrew Writing) are different writings of the Name of our Creator. In English, it is transliterated to YHWH or YHVH, which means “to be”, “exist”, “become”, and “come to pass”. The four letters of the Qodesh Name of our Creator in written form from right to left means “Hand Behold/Reveal, Nail Behold/Reveal. (Reference source: messengerofthename.com) (Note: Hebrew reads and writes from right to left.) And it has been pronounced by many people as “Yahuah”, “Yahuwah”, “Yahuweh”, “Yehovah”, “Jehovah”, or “Yahweh”. The Short Version of our Creator’s Name is (Ancient Hebrew Writing)/ (Paleo Hebrew Writing), (Modern Hebrew Writing) and it is pronounced as “Yah”. The praise word “Hallelujah” which is in the Book of Psalms and the Book of Revelation of the Bible and often heard in churches and worship songs, is the pronunciation of the Hebrew Word / , which means “Praise You / / (Yah)”. / / (Yah) is the short version of the Name of our Elohim, the Most High / . Therefore, when we say “HalleluYah”, we are praising our Creator Elohim!
/ / (pronounced as “Yah”) is the short version of the Name of / / , the One and Only Creator! The Good News is that this form of transliteration of the Name of our Creator is still in many modern translations of the Bible such as KJV, NKJV, etc. For example, you can find this pronunciation of the Name of our Creator in Psalm 68:4b; Isaiah 12:2b; Isaiah 26:4; Isaiah 38:11; Psalm 102, 117, 138, 148, 150, Rev.19:1, 3, 4, 6 and some other places in the New King James Version of the Bible.
“Extol Him who rides on the clouds, By His name YAH, And Rejoice before Him.” (Psalm 68:4b, NKJV)
(Tehillim/Psalm 68:4-5, Picture Above Exempt from the Interlinear Bible Hebrew English by Jay P. Green)
“Trust in the Lord forever, For in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength.” (Isaiah 26:4, NKJV)
“Trust in forever, for in Yah,, is a rock of ages.” (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 26:4, Halleluyah Scriptures, HS)
“Trust in forever, for in Yah, , is a rock of ages.” (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 26:4, The Scriptures, ISR)
(Tehillim/Psalm 26:4, Picture Above Exempt from the Interlinear Bible Hebrew English by Jay P. Green)
Our Creator and His Son’s Names Have Meanings. Name Also Tells Identity.
/ / , the Qodesh Name of our Creator indicates who our Creator is and it defines the very essence, the very nature, and the very character of Our Creator, the Most High, our Elohim!
, our Elohim and Creator, is Self-Existent! He is the Self-Existent One, the Omnipotent One, who made everything come into being! He created all things and upholds them by His eternal power! He is the Creator, Sustainer, and Finisher of all things. He is the Great “I AM”; He is “the First and the Last, the Aleph and the Tav, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End”, the “who is and who was and who is to come, El Shaddai”; He is the only True Elohim, the Most High, the Forever Living Elohim, the Everlasting Father, the King of kings, the Master of all! He has Always Existed and He will Forever Exist; He is Everlasting and His Name is Everlasting! His Name alone is exalted! In the Scriptures, Elohim emphasized many times that His people should know His Name. I saw the Name of Elohim written in the night sky and amid the beautiful grass in the grassland in my dream and heard the Name of our Creator was pronounced in my dream and Elohim Himself came to rescue me and rebuke Satan for me! I’m truly blessed!
“I am the ‘Aleph’ and the ‘Tau’, the Beginning and the End,” says , “who is and who was and who is to come, El Shaddai.” (Revelation 1:8, HS)
“Thus said , Sovereign of Yisrael, and his Redeemer, of hosts, ‘I am the First and I am the Last, besides Me there is no Elohim.” (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 44:6, HS)
“And Mosheh said to Elohim, “See, when I come to the children of Yisrael and say to them, ‘The Elohim of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His Name?’ what shall I say to them?” And Elohim said to Mosheh, “I am that which I am.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Yisrael, ‘I am has sent me to you.’” And Elohim said further to Mosheh, “Thus you are to say to the children of Israel: ‘ Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Yitshaq, and the Elohim of Ya’aqob, has sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is My remembrance to all generations.’” (Shemoth/Exodus 3:13-15, HS)
(Exodus 3:14-15, Scripture Image Exempt from the Interlinear Bible Hebrew English by Jay P. Green)
“I, I am , and besides Me there is no saviour.” (Isaiah 43:11, Halleluyah Scriptures, HS)
“For I am your Elohim, the Set-apart One of Yisrael, your Saviour.” (Isaiah 43:3a, The Scriptures, ISR)
“I am , and there is none else – there are no mighty ones besides Me. I gird you, though you have not known Me, so that they know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none but Me. I am , and there is none else, forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil. I,, do all these.” (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 45:5-7, HS)
“But I am your Elohim, stirring up the sea, and its waves roar. of hosts is His Name.” (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 51:15, HS)
(Yeshayahu/Isaiah 51:15, Scripture Image Exempt from the Interlinear Bible Hebrew English by Jay P. Green)
“Therefore My people shall know My name; Therefore they shall know in that day that I am He who speaks: ‘Behold, it is I.” (Isaiah 52:6, NKJV)
“Declare and bring near, let them even take counsel together. Who has announced this from of old? Who has declared it from that time? Is it not I, ? And there is no mighty one besides Me, a righteous El and a Saviour, there is none besides Me. Turn to Me and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am El, and there is none else.” (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 45:21-22, HS)
The Proof of the Qodesh Name of Elohim from the Dead Sea Scroll and Aleppo Codex
Isaiah 43:9-15 Image Exempt from the Great Isaiah Scroll
The Book of Isaiah-Image Exempt from Aleppo Codex https://archive.org/details/Aleppo_Codex/page/n209
Check out More proof of the Qodesh Name of Elohim at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton.
The Qodesh Name of The Messiah
The Name of the Messiah, the Son of our Creator, our Savior is // / / .
(Ancient Hebrew Writing), (Paleo Hebrew Writing), (Modern Hebrew Full Writing), (Modern Hebrew Defective Writing), and (Short Version Modern Hebrew Writing) are various versions of writings of the Name of the Messiah and it is pronounced by many as “Yahushua”, “Yehoshua”, “Jehoshua”, “Y’shua, “Yeshua”, “Joshua”, “Jeshua” and “Jesus”.
Psalm 148:13 “Let them praise the name of the Lord, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and heaven.” (New King James Version, NKJV)
Psalm 148:13 “Let them praise the Name of , For His Name alone is exalted, His splendour is above the earth and shamayim.” (Halleluyah Scriptures, HS)
Micah 4:5 “All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.” (New International Version, NIV)
Micah 4:5 “For all the peoples walk, each one in the name of his mighty one, but we walk in the Name of our Elohim forever and ever.” (Halleluyah Scriptures, HS)
Now, let’s see the contrast between the translations listed above, please pay attention to the difference between the translations with His Name kept as it is in its original form and that with His Name Hidden. Then please decide for yourself what is our Elohim and Creator’s desire for you. Does He desire you to worship Him with His Name hidden or be exalted? Is the LORD a name? Does our Creator desire you only worship Him in spirit or in spirit and truth?
I think the answer is obvious as it is written in John 4:23, “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also does seek such to worship Him.” (John 4:23, The Scriptures, ISR)
Now, I will end this post with the following Scripture Verses:
“If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god, Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.” (Psalm 44:20-21, NKJV)
“If we had forgotten the Name of our Elohim, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign mighty one, Would Elohim not search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.” (Tehillim/Psalm 44:20-21, HS)
“For all the peoples walk, each one in the name of his mighty one, but we walk in the Name of our Elohim forever and ever.” (Micah 4:5, Halleluyah Scriptures, HS)
“As for me and my house, we serve .” (Joshua 24:15b)
(Joshua 24:15b, Scripture Image Above Exempt from the Interlinear Bible Hebrew English by Jay P. Green)
“Declare and bring near, let them even take counsel together. Who has announced this from of old? Who has declared it from that time? Is it not I,? And there is no mighty one besides Me, a righteous El and a Saviour, there is none besides Me. Turn to Me and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am El, and there is none else.” (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 45:21-22, HS)
“Therefore see, I am causing them to know, this time I cause them to know My hand and My might. And they shall know that My Name is !” (Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah 16:21, HS)
(Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah 16:19-21, Scripture Image Above Exempt from the Interlinear Bible Hebrew English by Jay P. Green)
“The beast of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, Because I give waters in the wilderness And rivers in the desert, To give drink to My people, My chosen. This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise. “But you have not called upon Me, O Jacob; And you have been weary of Me, O Israel.” (Isaiah 43:20-22, NKJV)
“For I say to you, from now on you shall by no means see Me, until you say, ‘Baruk is He who is coming in the Name of !'” (Mattithyahu/Matthew 23:39, HS)
“ is righteous in all His ways, and kind in all His works. is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth. He does the desire of those who revere Him; And He hears their cry and saves them. preserves all those loving Him, But all the wicked He destroys. My mouth speaks the praise of , and let all flesh barak His qodesh Name Forever and ever.” (Tehillim/Psalm 145:17-21, HS)
For more information about the Names of our Creator and the Messiah, please check this post – Truth or Traditions.
“My mouth speaks the praise of , And let all flesh barak His qodesh Name, Forever and ever.” (Tehillim/Psalm 145:21, HS)
Notes and Bibliography
The Scripture verses in this article are from the following:
- HalleluYah Scriptures (HS)
- New King James Version (NKJV)
- New International Version (NIV)
- The Scriptures (ISR)
- Aramaic English New Testament (AENT)
- The Interlinear Bible Hebrew English by Jay P. Green, Sr.
Hebrew Fonts Resources: www.ancient-hebrew.org
Video URLs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoretic Text
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis 1:1
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/bible_isaiahscroll.html
https://archive.org/details/Aleppo_Codex/page/n209
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshua