Others say that it is the pronunciation Yahweh that is testified in both Christian and pagan texts of the early Christian era. Some hold that there is evidence that a form of the Tetragrammaton similar to Jehovah may have been in use in Semitic and Greek phonetic texts and artifacts from Late Antiquity. Most scholars believe 'Jehovah' (also transliterated as 'Yehowah' ) to be a hybrid form derived by combining the Latin letters JHVH with the vowels of Adonai. The name Iehova at a Lutheran church in Norway. Jehovah does not appear in most mainstream English translations, some of which use Yahweh but most continue to use 'Lord' or 'L ORD' to represent the Tetragrammaton.

'Yahweh' or 'Jehovah').' Jehovah appears in the Old Testament of some widely used translations including the American Standard Version (1901) and Young's Literal Translation (1862, 1899) the New World Translation (1961, 2013) uses Jehovah in both the Old and New Testaments.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops states that in order to pronounce the Tetragrammaton 'it is necessary to introduce vowels that alter the written and spoken forms of the name (i.e. Jehovah was first introduced by William Tyndale in his translation of Exodus 6:3, and appears in some other early English translations including the Geneva Bible and the King James Version. The derived forms Iehouah and Jehovah first appeared in the 16th century. The Hebrew vowel points of Adonai were added to the Tetragrammaton by the Masoretes, and the resulting form was transliterated around the 12th century as Yehowah. The historical vocalization was lost because in Second Temple Judaism, during the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE, the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton came to be avoided, being substituted with Adonai ('my Lord'). The consensus among scholars is that the historical vocalization of the Tetragrammaton at the time of the redaction of the Torah (6th century BCE) is most likely Yahweh. Jehovah ( / dʒ ɪ ˈ h oʊ v ə/) is a Latinization of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה‎ Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible and is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism. 'Jehovah' at Exodus 6:3 (1611 King James Version)

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