| Show THE DIVINE NAME the ineffable word Is I 1 never spoken by many israelites rev dr wise president of the hebrew union college at cincinnati has given his view of the ancient jewish rendering of the name of the deity reports the new york sun he says that the term jehovah the ineffable gram maton is never pronounced by many israelites they use the word A Ado donol noi which signifies the lord the translators of the bible followed this custom rendering the word jehovah as lord in ancient times the pharisees Pharis ees replaced the kv by shem saem they used shemo which i is s also biblical as the sacred name a and nd this name is yet retained to ome bome extent among th the jews but it would appear from passages in the psalms that adonil or lord for jehovah was more ancient even een than the times of the pharisees Pharis ees it thus mccu occurs rs eight times in psalm axx iv it also appears in the book of exodus where jehovah had bad been used in the original hebrew this substitution would seem to be older than any other and it is yet common among all jew jen s dr wise says he has found that the ancient translations testify y in favor v of adonai Ado noi looking at the english translation of the old testament it will be found that the name jehovah appears in the books of genesis exodus judges the psalms and isaiah it is not in the new testament |
