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    Looking for Jeremiah

    68) Looking for Jeremiah Jeremiah 3:14 “Return, שׁ֣וּבוּ (šū·ḇū) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again O faithless שׁוֹבָבִים֙ (šō·w·ḇā·ḇîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 7726: Turning back, recusant, apostate children,”...
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    Looking for Jesus according to Matthew

    82) Looking for Jesus Matthew 8:1 When δὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. [Jesus] αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive...
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    Looking for Paul

    117) Where does it come from? How does it grow? Chapter 9 - But Saul kept on acquiring more and more power and was confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus, as he proved logically that this is the Christ. - He spends his time teaching! - He has the condition of heart! - He receive holy...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Somebody says: You know what, I've realized it's my mistake, sorry for barging in, I'll leave you entertaining yourself. Au revoir. My answer: The problem is when we assert something we must be careful! And on the elements we use! Sometimes when you want...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Sacred Name Bible Bible translations that use Hebraic forms of God's personal name (YHWH) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sacred Name Bibles are Bible translations that consistently use Hebraic forms of the God of Israel's personal name, instead of its English language translation, in...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Non-English An Indonesian translation produced by the Sacred Name Movement, Kitab Suci, uses Hebraic forms of sacred names in the Old and New Testaments (Soesilo 2001:416), based on Shellabear's translation. A French translation, by André Chouraqui, uses...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Limited Sacred Name Bibles Some translations use a form of "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" only sporadically: The Complete Bible: An American Translation by John Merlin Powis Smith (1939), e.g. Exodus 3:15, 6:3, 17:15 Holman Christian Standard Bible (2004, 2010), the...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Tetragrammaton Sacred Name Bibles These Sacred Name Bibles use the tetragrammaton without vowels. They follow this practice in both the Old and New Testaments (though some translations are not complete). The Scriptures (ISR) Version (1993, 1998, 2009) Hebraic-Roots...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Somebody says: Is that also true for the Japanese, Somalian, Russian, etc. translations of those texts from the Hebrew? My answer: Wikiwand - Sacred Name Bible Transliterated Sacred Name Bibles These Bibles systematically transliterate the tetragrammaton (usually...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Lutheranism and Anglicanism[edit] In the Lutheran and Anglican psalters, the word LORD in "small capital letters [is used] to represent the tetragrammaton YHWH, the personal name of the deity". However, the Psalter of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer used by the Protestant Episcopal Church of the...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Christianity It is assumed that early Jewish Christians inherited from Jews the practice of reading "Lord" where the Tetragrammaton appears in the Hebrew text (and where a few Greek manuscripts use it in the midst of their Greek translation). Gentile Christians, primarily non-Hebrew speaking...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Kabbalah[edit] See also: Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy Kabbalistic tradition holds that the correct pronunciation is known to a select few people in each generation, it is not generally known what this pronunciation is. There are two main schools of Kabbalah arising in 13th century Spain...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Usage in religious traditions[edit] Judaism[edit] Especially due to the existence of the Mesha Stele, the Jahwist tradition found in Exod. 3:15, and ancient Hebrew and Greek texts, biblical scholars widely hold that the Tetragrammaton and other names of God were spoken by the ancient...
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    What is the Bible about?

    According to the Catholic Encyclopedia (1910) and B.D. Eerdmans:[108][109] Diodorus Siculus (1st century BCE) writes[110] Ἰαῶ (Iao); Irenaeus (d. c. 202) reports[111] that the Gnostics formed a compound Ἰαωθ (Iaoth) with the last syllable of Sabaoth. He also...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Manuscripts of the Septuagint and later Greek renderings[edit] The great majority of extant manuscripts of the Old Testament in Greek, complete or fragmentary, dated to the ninth century CE or earlier, employ Κύριος to represent the Tetragrammaton of the Hebrew text. The following do not. They...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Origen (Commentary on Psalms 2.2) said that in the most accurate manuscripts the name was written in an older form of the Hebrew characters, the paleo-Hebrew letters, not the square: "In the more accurate exemplars the (divine) name is written in Hebrew characters; not, however, in the current...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Septuagint Editions of the Septuagint Old Testament are based on the complete or almost complete fourth-century manuscripts Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Alexandrinus and consistently use Κύριος, "Lord", where the Masoretic Text has the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew. This corresponds...
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    What is the Bible about?

    PALEO-HEBREW SQUARE TETRAPUNCTA 1Q11 (1QPsb) 2–5 3 (link: [1]) 2Q13 (2QJer) (link: [2]) 1QS VIII 14 (link: [3])...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Dead Sea Scrolls[edit] In the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Hebrew and Aramaic texts the Tetragrammaton and some other names of God in Judaism (such as El or Elohim) were sometimes written in paleo-Hebrew script, showing that they were treated specially. Most of God's names were pronounced until...
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    What is the Bible about?

    Leningrad Codex Six presentations of the Tetragrammaton with some or all of the vowel points of אֲדֹנָי‎ (Adonai) or אֱלֹהִים‎ (Elohim) are found in the Leningrad Codex of 1008–1010, as shown below. The close transcriptions do not indicate that the Masoretes intended the name to be pronounced...