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they are, unless you can find a thoroughly equivalent word
for them in the language into which you wish to translate
them. The tetragram Yhwh used to be pronounced Yehovah
(Jehovah), but now it is generally pronounced Yahwah. It
is a proper name of God the Almighty, and it is held so holy
by the Jews that when reading their Scriptures they never
pronounce it, but read it "Adon" instead. The other name,
"Elohim," is always pronounced, but Yahwah never. Why
the Jews make this distinction between these two names of
the same God is a question for itself, altogether outside the
scope of our present subject. It may, however, in passing,
be mentioned that Yahwah, unlike Elohim, is never used
with pronominal suffixes, and seems to be a special name in
Hebrew for the Deity as the national God of the people of
Israel. In fact, "Elohim" is the oldest name known to all
Semites; and in order to give a special character to the con-
for them in the language into which you wish to translate
them. The tetragram Yhwh used to be pronounced Yehovah
(Jehovah), but now it is generally pronounced Yahwah. It
is a proper name of God the Almighty, and it is held so holy
by the Jews that when reading their Scriptures they never
pronounce it, but read it "Adon" instead. The other name,
"Elohim," is always pronounced, but Yahwah never. Why
the Jews make this distinction between these two names of
the same God is a question for itself, altogether outside the
scope of our present subject. It may, however, in passing,
be mentioned that Yahwah, unlike Elohim, is never used
with pronominal suffixes, and seems to be a special name in
Hebrew for the Deity as the national God of the people of
Israel. In fact, "Elohim" is the oldest name known to all
Semites; and in order to give a special character to the con-