New revelation and knowledge often bring amazement and exhilaration. Assumptions and errors can hang over us and block us from moving ahead. Here is a case in point:
I woke early this morning, at least 5:30 AM was early for me. I felt I had to get back to my computer to launch the new version of my web site. As I typed in changes here and there, I saw something I had not noticed before. I looked at the Hebrew spelling of the name of one word and above it was the most popular transliteration of that word: “Elohim.” As I compared the two words so close to each other I realized that the most popular transliteration “Elohim” was not correct, at least not if you consider that the Hebrew word contains three ancient Hebrew vowels and only two consonants!
In the United states we speak many dialects. Many can recognize a New England dialect, or New York city speech, or someone from the deep south who makes multi-syllable words out of what others consider to be single syllable words and visa-versa, like “hey ed” from “head” and “Yawl” from “You all.” Lesser known dialects come from places like southern Ohio: “You’uns,” which I am not sure what that is a contraction of. And I was told by someone who had visited there that way up in the hills of Kentucky are folk who still speak with a British accent.
Well, when I looked at the Hebrew word for which I adopted the transliteration “Elohim,” I realized I was speaking with a deep accent, and that there was no way I could derive that sound from the Hebrew letters. The two consonants sound like our English “L” and “M”. The ancient Hebrew vowels, which got lost along the way were (1) “He,” which sounds like “AH,” (2) “Aleph,” which sounds like the “Eh” in egg and (3) “Yod,” which sounds like a long “E” and is used with the final form of Mem to form the plural “eem.”
So using the Hebrew vowels, the word unequivocally becomes “Eh – L – AH – EE – M” or ELAHIM which is the plural for “Eh – L – AH” or ELAH, Who is the One who is above All. The problem really goes back before the 10th century AD, where Hebrew, over the years, became deeply accented and affected by both the commonly spoken languages and their many dialects. Also the assumption that Hebrew had only consonants in its alphabet is really a myth, “Yawl.” The Masoretes, using that assumption, analyzed the language as it was currently spoken, and created vowel markings to “preserve” what they assumed to be correct. Or if not correct, then to them it mattered little that Hebrew at one time, and like other languages, actually had letters that were vowels.
I am not alone in this. Leonora Leet, Ph. D, wrote in her book, The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah that, considering the impact of recognizing ancient Hebrew vowels, the word mistakenly spelled YHWH consists solely of three vowels! Yod (long E), He (ah), Vau (oo). That means that the pronunciation, which will become a household word for all the people of the world, can only be “E – AH – OO – AH” or EYAHUWAH.
As a singer, I recognized the logic behind this. E – AH – OO – AH and Eh – LAH – EEM are perfectly formed for singing in any language. Much more pleasing than “Jeh-ho-vah.” A quick look at the Psalms shows that E – AH – OO – AH appears many times in the text at points where meditative emphasis would be appropriate.
When vowels are strung together like this, regardless of the language, the same consonants will form naturally as the sustained sound transitions from vowel to vowel. So EYAHUWAH will create consonants sounds ” E [y] AH [h]OO[w]AH” and ELAHIM creates “Eh – LAH[h]EEM.” Without allowing the naturally forming transitional consonant sounds, the singer might be forced to perform a glottal stop between the vowels! Thus both names can be sung in any language completely without any affectation from language or dialect.
At the point where I recognized my error, I felt free. Mainly because my writings had been “affected” by using a lesser pronunciation. I felt as though I was being held back in taking my books to the printer because this really needed to be changed.
These Names were intended to be known and sung once again. The reason some refused to say HaShem has more to do with saying it correctly than it does with superstitious fear. Because these names were created and given for us, we will profit greatly from their restoration. According to a comment in The Scriptures, a translation by the Institute for Scripture Research, South Africa, the prophecy about the restoration of the Names is also in eight other places in the Scriptures:
Here is what EYAHUWAH says (Isaiah 52:5-6):
And all day long my name is constantly blasphemed. Therefore my people will know my name; therefore in that day they will know that it is I who foretold it. Yes, it is I.
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Timothy,
I too am convinced (after studying countless related Scriptural passages) of the importance of the unfolding mystery shrouding the name of God; in fact, I believe it to be the key to the whole of Scripture . In short, I theorize that “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” is a prophesied, future event [Rev. 1:3], yet to occur (as is attested by Peter [I Peter 1:7 - 13] who speaks of ‘The Revelation’ as a future event). However, rather than the revelation of the Person, Jesus Christ, I suggest that the Book speaks of His name, specifically, being unveiled [Rev. 19:12]. In the words of David [Ps. 30]: “Sing praise to the Lord, You saints of His, and give thanks ‘at the (future, prophesied) remembrance of His holy name’.”
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Sincerely,
Jay Love
After publishing this post, I went back over all my previous posts and made some changes. I was amazed at how, to me, the writings became clearer. The relationship between Elah and Elah-im stood out like a light. The understanding of these names reveals the greatness of our future as the Children or Sons of Elah. Our inheritance is to be members of Elah’s Family or Elahim.
But another mystery reveals that we can be part of Elah’s Kingdom now — if we learn how to live the Eternal Life now, while still in the flesh. As the Day draws nearer, this must be our primary goal and chief desire.