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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Hebrew name for God is ____
A
Yahweh
B
Torah
C
Talmud
D
Mosaic
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of “YHWH, ‘’ the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus . The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton.

Detailed explanation-2: -Traditionally, the translation “God” renders the Hebrew word Elohim. Likewise, the word “Lord” is a translation of Adonai. In the LSB, God’s covenant name is rendered as Yahweh, as opposed to LORD. The meaning and implication of this name is God’s self-deriving, ongoing, and never-ending existence.

Detailed explanation-3: -The oldest plausible occurrence of his name is in the phrase “Shasu of Yhw” (Egyptian: yhwꜣw) in an Egyptian inscription from the time of Amenhotep III (1402–1363 BCE), the Shasu being nomads from Midian and Edom in northern Arabia.

Detailed explanation-4: -Yahweh is the name of the God of Israel in both the Jewish scriptures and Old Testament. While much of the Jewish and Christian scriptures are the same, the Christian Bible contains the New Testament, which introduces Jesus.

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