(May 16, 2012 at 7:41 pm)padraic Wrote: how the fuck do you get 'Jehovah" out of YHVH (Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh) There is no 'j' letter or sound in Hebrew.. "Yahweh" is also wrong; the letter 'V' is usually pronounced 'vav'.
Really bad mistranslation of a mistake. When the tetragrammaton (YHVH) appears in the bible the Jews almost invariably replace it with Adonai (YY). Somewhere in a place far, far away, someone got the stupid idea to place the nikkudim (vowel points introduced in the 6th? century) of Adonai under the tetragrammaton and it transliterates as a bastardization of YAHOOVAH. So god is really a search engine/vacuum cleaner mix....suck it google
