Why not Yahweh?
The pronunciation Yahweh is a grammatical reconstruction of the Maker’s Name.
1. The Missing Vowel
The pronunciation Yahweh does not preserve the vowel between the H and W.
The claim is that Yahweh is a Hebrew name yet in the Hebrew the root of YHWH is hawah. The vowel structure is altered to produce a different pronunciation entirely.
2. The Grammatical Reconstruction
Yahweh is commonly explained through grammatical interpretations of the Hebrew root associated with existence. One explanation attributed to Radak involves changing the original verbal form.
The concern is that a vowel is removed that should remain if the original structure of hawah is preserved.
Reconstructing a name is not the same as preserving it.
3. The Names Preserve Yehu
Throughout the Word, even in the Hebrew texts, personal names repeatedly preserve the form yehu.
Examples include Yehunathan, Yeshahyehu, Aleyehu, Yerumyehu, and hundreds of others.
These recurring forms are important evidence when examining the pronunciation of the Maker's name.
Why do the names throughout the Word repeatedly preserve the Yehu, while the reconstruction Yahweh begins with Yah?
This pattern should not be overlooked.
4. Where Did Yah Come From
The pronunciation Yahweh relies on grammatical reconstruction and does not preserve the vowel structure argued for in the original form Hawah.
Meanwhile, even the Hebrew personal names repeatedly preserve the form Yehu.
Yah is in fact a pagan deity. The name is the deified form of the patriarch known as Yapheth (Japheth).
After Yapheth passed away, as evident in many cultures since the beginning of time, his legend grew and ultimately he became worshiped and deified by his descendants.
In time, this deity was shortened from Yapheth (Yah Feth) to simply Yah.
When the scribes in submission to the descendants of Yapheth altered the text, they in many places began changing Yehuwah’s name to insert their deity Yah.
Yahweh is a name that declares openly the truth about this distortion. For there is no precedence to remove the vowels from YHWH, yet Yahweh removes the vowel between the H and the W, completely altering the Name.
Not only that, but it changes the vowels that it left within the Name.
Additionally, it makes the pronouncing of the ending “weh” to sound as “way” which again has zero precedence.
Why do all this? To make a name that gets people to unknowingly engage and worship the false deity Yah. And continually say that this is Yah’s Way. Yahweh = Yah Way = Yah’s Way.
The patterns of deception are evident. The name of the Maker was substituted in many forms, not the least of these being Yahweh, the false deity of the descendants of Yapheth.
Why not Jehovah?
The pronunciation Jehovah is also not the original pronunciation of the Maker’s Name.
1. The Y Was Changed To J
The letter J developed much later in the history of written languages.
Therefore, Jehovah does not preserve the original opening sound.
2. The Vowels Came From A Substitute Reading
Later scribes placed vowel markings associated with this substitute reading alongside the four consonants of the set-apart name.
These markings were not intended to establish the original pronunciation.
The form Jehovah developed through the combination of the original consonants with these later reading conventions.
3. Hawah And Hovah Have Different Meanings
Another important distinction concerns the Hebrew forms Hawah and Hovah.
Hawah: Associated with being, becoming, and existence.
Hovah: Associated with calamity, ruin, and destruction.
If the Maker's name is examined in connection with Hawah and existence, why should a pronunciation associated with the different vowel form Hovah be accepted?
If you hold to the belief that the Maker’s Name is Jehovah or even Yehovah, then you are claiming that His Name is associated with calamity, ruin, and destruction.
4. The Word Preserve Yehu
As mentioned above, Yehu is preserved thousands of times throughout the Word, reoccurring in many names throughout the text.
The Maker’s Name should be preserved according to the true evidence, not replaced by later linguistic and religious traditions.