{"id":151,"date":"2019-04-29T22:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divinename.no\/v2\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2019-04-29T22:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:28:06","slug":"where-to-find-gods-name-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/divinename.no\/?page_id=151","title":{"rendered":"Where to find God&#8217;s name in the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Old Testament<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A well known Bible translation is the King James Version. Do we find God&#8217;s name in this translation? Yes, in Exodus 6:3, Psalm 83:18, Isaiah 12:2 and Isaiah 26:4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name occurs almost 7000 times in the Hebrew writings. It is written with four Hebrew consonants (from right to left)\u00a0\u00a0(transliterated into YHWH), and is therefore also called &laquo;the tetragrammaton&raquo;. In Biblia Hebraica and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia the tetragrammaton is written 6828 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many translators choose to use titles as &laquo;Lord&raquo; instead of God&#8217;s name. But there are also several translations which has preserved God&#8217;s name, for example American Standard Version which uses the name Jehovah all places where it occur in the Hebrew writings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> A comparison of Psalm 83:18<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>American Standard Version<br><\/strong>That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The New Jerusalem Bible<br><\/strong>Let them know that you alone bear the name of Yahweh, Most High over all the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>King James Version<br><\/strong>That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New International Version<br><\/strong>Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD&#8211; that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The New Testament<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Greek writings we find the Divine name in the Hebrew expression <em>Hallelujah\u00a0<\/em>(Hallelu-Yah), found in Revelation 19:1, 3, 4, 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hallelu-Yah&nbsp;<\/em>means &laquo;<em>praise Yah<\/em>&laquo;, and&nbsp;<em>Yah<\/em>&nbsp;is a contraction of the Divine Name &#8211; like the Biblical name&nbsp;<em>Jonathan<\/em>&nbsp;is a short for&nbsp;<em>Jehonathan<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Bible translations argue that God&#8217;s name originally was used throughout The New Testament, and so they have chosen to reinstate God&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Testament A well known Bible translation is the King James Version. Do we find God&#8217;s name in this translation? Yes, in Exodus 6:3, Psalm&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-151","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divinename.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divinename.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divinename.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divinename.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divinename.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divinename.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divinename.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}