At Your Name
When you think of the Name of God, what comes to the forefront of your mind? The Bible is filled with different attributes that describe God, but what about the true Name of God?
HISTORY LESSON
In the Hebrew Scriptures, the name of God is recorded as YHWH. So, where did the name “Jehovah” come from? Ancient Hebrew did not use vowels in its written form. The vowels were pronounced in spoken Hebrew but were not recorded in written Hebrew. The appropriate vowel sounds of words were passed down orally. As a result, when ancient Hebrew is studied, scholars and linguists often do not know with absolute confidence how certain Hebrew words were pronounced.
This particularly becomes an issue when studying the Hebrew name of God, written in the Hebrew Scriptures as YHWH, also known as the tetragrammaton. Despite much study and debate, it is still not universally agreed upon how the Hebrew name for God YHWH was pronounced. Some prefer “Yahweh” (YAH-way); others prefer “Yehowah” or “Yahuweh”; still others argue for “Jehovah.” (www.gotquestions.com)
When God says, "I AM,” He is speaking His name. In the Hebrew language that this verse was written in, the letters are yod, he, vav, he, from which we get YHWH. These four letters were very loosely translated into the English ‘Jehovah.’ However, there is no ‘j’ sound in the Hebrew. So, a better approximation of the name of God would be Yahweh.
To reiterate, the pronunciation of God’s name is difficult because when they Jews wrote His name in Hebrew Scriptures, they did not use vowel designations. They only used consonants. Therefore, the phrase, “The name of God is YHWH,” would appear as “th nm f gd s yhwh.” This wasn’t a problem with the Hebrews because they knew what the words were and how to pronounce them. It was not until many hundreds of years later that the Jews started to insert what was called ‘vowel points’ into the copied texts of the Hebrew Old Testament.
Nevertheless, from the text above the proper name of God translated into English is "I AM," which we transliterate into the English YHWH.2 (Christian Apologetics and Research)
So when we sing the song “At Your Name (Yahweh, Yahweh), we are proclaiming to I AM and shouting to I AM that he is our Provider, Shepherd, Savior, Redeemer and Lord of all!
Read the words to this weekend’s song and worship with us as we proclaim God as the Great I AM!
"At Your Name (Yahweh, Yahweh)"
At Your name
The mountains shake and crumble
At Your name
The oceans roar and tumble
At Your name
Angels will bow
The earth will rejoice
Your people cry out
[Chorus:]
Lord of all the earth
We shout Your name, shout Your name
Filling up the skies
With endless praise, endless praise
Yahweh, Yahweh
We love to shout Your name, oh Lord
At Your name
The morning breaks in Glory
At Your name
Creation sings Your story
At Your name
Angels will bow
The earth will rejoice
Your people cry out
[Chorus]
There is no one like our God
We will praise you, praise you
There is no one like our God
We will sing, we will sing [x3]
[Chorus x2]
