About Jehovah
About Jehovah
In speaking about primitive Christianity, one can start with the prayer Jesus gave us as a model. It is recorded in the inspired Christian writings at Matthew 6:9 and lists first to pray for God’s name to be made holy.
Giving the God we worship a name shows the level of our sincerity. People who worship Jesus talk about him and glorify him all the time. The same can be said about people who worship other gods. In fact, the only way we could praise anyone at all requires using that person’s name.
Why is there so much confusion and mystery surrounding the Tetragrammaton, the name of God Almighty?
According to Wiktionary and Wikipedia, the Tetragrammaton is: “The four Hebrew letters (yod) ה (heh) ו (vav) ה (heh) or יהוה (in transliteration, YHWH or JHVH) used as the ineffable name of God in the Hebrew bible, variously transliterated as Yahweh or Jehovah.” And […] “Of all the names of God, the one which occurs most frequently is the Tetragrammaton, appearing 6,823 times, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia. The Biblia Hebraica and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia texts of the Hebrew Scriptures each contain the Tetragrammaton 6,828 times.”
Why would the Tetragrammaton become ineffable when repeated so frequently in the written form? Although the article above states that the Tetragrammaton is the most used “of all the names of God”, in reality, the other names are merely titles, and not names at all.

