The Vowels of Yehovah and Yahweh 

The word Adonoi or Adonai (meaning our god) was substituted for Yahveh (spelled YHVH) because The Name was considered too sacred to pronounce at all. And the way this substitution was indicated in print was to write YHVH in Hebrew but with the vowe markers for Adonoi (or Adonai). Along comes a German gentile who reads Hebrew but doesn't know this convention and mistakenly reads it as Jehovah. (J is how German indicates the Y sound.) An Anglo reader then makes the second error and the misconception and mispronunciation becomes permanent.

Please, Nehemia or someone from the team can answer my question?👆

So many people are brainwashed

I agree actually YHWH comes from ehyeh YAHWEH would lil mean he is

It was NOT considered too holy to pronounce by the examples we have in the Bible. Boaz greeted people using the Name. The "too holy" trope was a late issue.

Actually, YHWH comes from 3 Hebrew tenses of "To be": Hayah (Past), Hoveh (Present) and Yihiyeh (Future). The one who was and is, and is to come. Revelation plays on this in chapter 1 verse 8 @@theburningelement.6447

-yahu is SUFFIX...NOT a prefix. Plenty of names END in -yahu...NONE begin with Yahu.

@@KravMagoo You're not listening carefully to the context of my question. People asked why is there an /a/ vowel in Yahu but not in yehovah? Nehemia answered that it's because of Hebrew intonational rules; whenever a dual-syllabic word like Yahu is extended to 3 syllables like yehovah, the first vowel reduces to an ultra short vowel or 'shewa' as it's called in Hebrew. This is true, such as is seen in the name 'Shlomo' aka 'Solomon'; the root of this name comes from the same root as 'shalom' (peace), but when a vowel is added to the letter /m/ and a third syllable is introduced, the consonant /sh/ loses it's vowel through what's known as propretonic reduction in Biblical Hebrew. This reduced syllable is represented as a short /e/ vowel in the name yehovah. So Nehemia equates 'yeho' with 'yahu'. So my question is, if he is right, then why is there a /u/ vowel in yahu but an /o/ in yehovah? That is the question that he and his followers refuse to answer.

@@KravMagoo Yahu actually was originally a prefix and a suffix. But I'll explain that later. If you've watched his other videos people ask Nehemia why it's halleluYAH but the name is YEHovah. Nehemia claims that the reason Yahu contains an /a/ vowel while yehovah contains an /e/ vowel is due to what is called propretonic reduction in Hebrew. This occurs when a third syllable is added to a bi-syllabic word; the result is the first syllable loses it's vowel and the vowel reduces to an ultra short vowel called shewa in Hebrew. This is true. A good example is the name 'Shlomo' (Solomon). The root is the same as the word 'shalom' (peace) but the addition of a vowel after the third root letter /m/ in Shlomo causes the name to lose it's initial /a/ vowel. In the case of yehovah, this reduced /a/ vowel is represented by a short /e/. So basically, Nehemia is equating Yahu with yeho. So my question to him and his followers is, why then is there a /u/ in Yahu but an /o/ in yehovah? Your answer was that Yahu is a suffix. Please explain why the suffix would contain a /u/ but the prefix form contains an /o/? Show me the proof from Hebrew grammar or from the Hebrew Bible that this is a universal rule. You can't because it's not. The correct answer is the following: Yahu contracted to Yo over time. So originally, Yahu was also a prefix as well as suffix. Yahu contracted to *Yau (rhymes with cow) then later to Yo (rhymes with no). This exaplins why the name of God takes the form Yo in names like Joshua, Josiah, Joram, etc. This contraction process is universal in Biblical Hebrew, the best example being the word 'lo' (to him). Originally this was *la-huu, literally 'to him', but over time it contracted to *lau then to lo the same way the name of God did. When the Tiberian Masoretes, the editors and inventors of the Nikkudot (vowel points), pointed the text, they represented any archaic prefixed form of YHW as YeHoW but it actually represented and was to be pronounced Yo. The motivation was conformity. The Hebrew Bible was completed over the course of several centuries if not a millenia. Some books featured God's name prefixed as YHW which represents an older form, while the newer form YW is found in newer books written during a later period. Because the Masoretes, who lived during the middle ages, pronounced the name of God as a prefix as Yo, when they pointed the name of God in older books it was spelled as the archaic form YHW, so they employed what is called a hypercorrection which is attempting to represent the sound Yo while keeping the spelling YHW so as not to alter the sacred text. The reason YHW changed to YW is due to Hebrew evolving it's intonational rules over time. As forementioned this happened to lo, originally *la-huu and also even 'moth', originally *maweth (death). This is basically a form of ketiv/qere technically. But it was probably not represented in the margins because it was frequently occurring just like adonai for YHWH. For anyone doubting that the vowels of YHWH represent adonai, refer to Psalms 144:15 and you will see a Hatef Patach in place of simple shewa under Yud, this is the same vowel in adonai.

@@KravMagoo I understand but Nehemia implied that yeho=yahu. People asked him why it's halleluYAH when the name is YEHovah. So my question to him and his followers is why then is there an /o/ in yeho but a /u/ in yahu?

​​​​@@destructo3915because what counts is the consonants, not the vowels. It doesn't exist vowels in hebrew, so don't focus on that. Yochanan starts with Yocha and has two letters of the tetragrammaton. Yehoshua/Yeshua, Yeshayahu,.Yirmeyahu, Hoshiayahu, Y'hudah, Yechoshafat and more have the same concept. The consonants that consists in the tetragrammaton which is important, not the pronunciation of the names which have it

He didn't. Remember that the rabbi who was killed by Rome in the second century, quoted in avodah zarah talmudic literature. Rome killed him for saying this name.

Jehovah God provided his son Jesus as the Lamb. Genesis 3:15 Jesus was sacrificed by Satan's seed! Genesis 22:8 To this Abraham said: “God himself will provide the Lamb...14 And Abraham named that place Je·hoʹvah-jiʹreh.* This is why it is still said today: “In the mountain of Jehovah it will be provided.” Footnotes * Meaning “Jehovah Will Provide; Jehovah Will See to It.” Adam wasn't deceived. The ground did produce thorns and thistles because Jesus worn the crown of thorns and thistles. God told Adam the prophecy of the resurrection. Genesis 3:15 The Sacrifice of Jesus was the first part of the prophecy of Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He will crush your head, and you will bruise him in the heel.” Satan the Dragon and the Wild Beast the 6th Kingdom executed Jesus on their image the cross. It was the Roman Empire of Italy that is also the shape of the heel. So the first part of the prophecy is complete . Satan bruised Jesus in the heel.