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The 4 Letters
Before we can attempt to find the true pronunciation of the 4 letters we need to establish
 which letters in the English language represent the Hebrew.
Then by a process of elimination we should be able to arrive at the correct manner in which to address
our Creator. First let us make a list of the most commonly used renditions of
THE NAME.
Jehovah          Yahvah
Yahovah          Yahveh
Yehovah          Yahwah
Yahuweh          Yahweh
Yahuwah
Yahowah

Spelt with the Hebrew letters “yood-hey-waw-hey”
As consonants, the “yood” and “hey” are quite clearly “Y” and “H”.
It is the “waw” popularly called the”vav” and the final vowel ‘ah’ or ‘eh’ that cause
so many of the disputes.


“The sound of waw a long time ago wasn’t ‘vav’ at all but ‘w’ and ‘w’ is weak. The Yemenite Jews of Arabia
who retain an ancient, correct, and pure pronunciation of Hebrew still pronounce the waw as ‘w,’ as does
 Arabic, the close sister language of Hebrew,” How the Hebrew Language Grew, Edward Horowitz,

The above reference is just one of many that are available to those who wish to look
for them, that state that anciently the ‘waw’ was a soft ‘w’ or double-u, not a “v” sound
or a hard ‘w’ sound .Being a semi-vowel the waw had the double-u or “oo” sound which always
gives a whisper of a soft ‘w’ at the end of its utterance
( a detailed list of references will be added to this site soon)

So that leaves us with YHWH and all the renditions that include a “v” sound can be eliminated.
Which leaves us with the shorter list of:-
Yahweh   Yahuweh (Yahueh)
Yahwah   Yahuwah (Yahuah)
(Yes there are a few more renditions out there, right now however we want to concentrate
on the most popular - the reason for this will become clear later.)

So far we have been looking at consonants, often it is stated that the Hebrew language only contained
consonants. However this is not strictly true the Yode - The Hey and the Waw (Uau) were all semi-vowels
that is they all had a vowel sound attached to them long before any Masoretic vowel points were invented.
As such the Tetragram could more properly be transliterated as EAUA.
The Historian Josephus Flavius told his Greek audience that the NAME was 4 vowels –
now it really does not matter if he meant 4 Greek vowels or 4 Hebrew vowels.
The fact is, whatever the language the vowels are, those letters
 make the sounds of the word. We are trying here to transliterate the NAME into English, so what
 vowel sounds does make?

 

 From the above chart we see that the first 2 letters say “^eYah” as in halleluYah.
 From Strong’s H3050   ()  yâhh
Then with the next letter being   f"the “waw” we start to encounter controversy.
Some say it is ‘o’ some ‘u’, rendering the 1^st three letters as Yahu or Yaho,
then there are also those who put no vowel here at all and have Yahw for the first three letters.
 So how can we resolve this issue and what can we eliminate.

Lets look at some of these names a little more closely.
Please go to the pages YAHWEH
 and YAHUWEH or YAHUWAH?

Below are the letters YHWH in Pictograpic Hebrew. This is generally interpreted to be
prophetic of Messiah and while that is true and easy to see; with a little thought a number of
readings can be made. Rather than make a list of those here, we would like to hear from you.
What you can read into those symbols?

Send your readings of the Pictograph to 4letters@yhwhhisgreatname.org

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