(tetr-gram-ton)n. The four Hebrew letters usually transliterated as YHWH or JHVH (Yahweh or Jehovah), used as a biblical proper name for God.[Middle English Tetragramaton, from Greek tetragrammaton, four-letter word, from neuter of tetragrammatos, four-lettered : tetra-, tetra- + gramma, grammat-, letter. See gerbh-.]

To understand this term is useful also as you study the Scriptures.  In the act of transliterating our Savior's name we can accept small variations, although some will want to argue this point, but when you understand and combine the understanding of what the Tetragrammaton is and how it is universally applied and presented then you will see the logic in the transliteration and how the names JESUS and YESHUA are not correct.  The four Transliterated Letters of the Tetragrammaton of our Creator's Name is YHWH and not LORD as is presented in the KJV and many other English bibles.

The YHWH can be pronounced just as you see it and this brings us to a longer transliteration of YaHWeH (Yahweh).  No one tries to transliterate this Name as YWH, dropping the "H" but when it comes to our Savior's Name this is exactly what the Jewish Scribes do and in turn have convinced nearly everyone they are presenting the correct name, YESHUA.  You can easily see that this is wrong and is either deliberate, or accidental and in either case, it is either and evil act to deceive or it is an act of stupidity -- you decide. 

By following the accepted Transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, YH WH, into other names, such as the Son of Nun, the man that led the people of Israel into the promised land, YeHoshua (recognized as JOSHUA an Old English Transliteration). This spelling, YeHoshua, is backed up by the Hebrew Dictionary but the Jewish Scribes and other Orthodox and Ultra Orthodox Jews, that fancy themselves as descendants of the Pharisees, would have you believe this name is Yeshua.  When you push them on this discrepancy, the missing "H",  they say Yeshua is the "short form" of the ORIGINAL Name.  And what is the Original Name, YeHoshua, an English transliteration of the Original Hebrew.  They hardly ever offer this up freely, as to the thinking mind it backs them into the corner and demonstrates they and there fellows from the past have messed with the Original wording.  

If you take a tour through the history of ancient Israel, not to exclude the books of the Kings in the Scriptures themselves, you will see how Israel, the People of God, accept pagan concepts and took from the Heathen Canaanites to honoring their gods, such as Baal, which is referenced throughout the Scriptures.  Another name they adopted from the evil Canaanites is the name El, and Elohim.  El was a Canaanite god called the "father of all mankind", a drunkard, and lazy god from whom Baal, or Bel came from.  The Israelites took to calling the Creator God YHWH, El and Elohim.  We find these names of pagan origin in the Hebrew Scriptures to this very day.  What this proves is the Jewish/Israelite scribes and priests did allow and adopt false terms of past pagan gods to be used in reference to the Living God of Israel.  When this is understood then it is not hard to understand how the false, so called, "short form" of His original name can be so easily accepted.  We have all been sold on the idea the Hebrew is accurate, without error, and the Jewish scribes were so precise as to never allow their bias to enter into the words delivered to Moses and others before them.

 

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