JEHOVAH GOD-
THE MEANING OF THE WORD APPEARS FROM EXO_3:14 TO BE “THE UNCHANGING, ETERNAL, SELF-EXISTENT GOD,” THE “I AM THAT I AM,” A COVENANT-KEEPING GOD. (COMPARE MAL_3:6; HOS_12:5; REV_1:4, REV_1:8.
THE SPECIAL AND SIGNIFICANT NAME (NOT MERELY AN APPELLATIVE TITLE SUCH AS LORD) BY WHICH GOD REVEALED HIMSELF TO THE ANCIENT HEBREWS (EXO_6:2, EXO_6:3). This name, the Tetragrammaton of the Greeks, was held by the later Jews to be so sacred that it was never pronounced except by the high priest on the great Day of Atonement, when he entered into the most holy place. WHENEVER THIS NAME OCCURRED IN THE SACRED BOOKS THEY PRONOUNCED IT, AS THEY STILL DO, “ADONAI” (I.E., LORD), THUS USING ANOTHER WORD IN ITS STEAD. The Massorets gave to it the vowel-points appropriate to this word. This Jewish practice was founded on a false interpretation of Lev_24:16. THE MEANING OF THE WORD APPEARS FROM EXO_3:14 TO BE “THE UNCHANGING, ETERNAL, SELF-EXISTENT GOD,” THE “I AM THAT I AM,” A COVENANT-KEEPING GOD. (COMPARE MAL_3:6; HOS_12:5; REV_1:4, REV_1:8.)
The Hebrew name “Jehovah” is generally translated in the Authorized Version (and the Revised Version has not departed from this rule) by the word lord printed in small capitals, to distinguish it from the rendering of the Hebrew Adonai and the Greek Kurios, which are also rendered Lord, but printed in the usual type. The Hebrew word is translated “Jehovah” only in Exo_6:3; Psa_83:18; Isa_12:2; Isa_26:4, and in the compound names mentioned below.
It is worthy of notice that this name is never used in the LXX., the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Apocrypha, or in the New Testament. It is found, however, on the “Moabite stone” (q.v.), and consequently it must have been in the days of Mesba so commonly pronounced by the Hebrews as to be familiar to their heathen neighbors.
Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.