Hebrew has no vowels. Amazing! Did not know that was possible.
I still prefer it when words are transliterated into English with English speakers in mind. We have no such thing as a vowelless word, so YHWH to most people looks like an acronym.
Oh well, presumably God cares about other stuff more than his name
Well, his actual name, nobody really knows how to say or pronounce it. It says in the Bible that nobody will know his name... but I still go with YAHWEH, as it's far more personal than "God" as that is just a title... like calling someone "Mister".
Because God isn't a Hebrew word, where vowels don't exist. YHWH is.
Thanks!
Hebrew has no vowels. Amazing! Did not know that was possible.
I still prefer it when words are transliterated into English with English speakers in mind. We have no such thing as a vowelless word, so YHWH to most people looks like an acronym.
Oh well, presumably God cares about other stuff more than his name
Well, his actual name, nobody really knows how to say or pronounce it. It says in the Bible that nobody will know his name... but I still go with YAHWEH, as it's far more personal than "God" as that is just a title... like calling someone "Mister".
Ancient Hebrew had no vowels it's true :)
Interesting
Christ, Buddha, and Mahatma are titles also, rather than names. (They were Jesus of Nazareth, Siddhartha Gotama and Mohandes Gandhi.)