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History

How the name was guarded in Jewish tradition, how the English word was formed, and how it entered hymns and the 1901 revision.

Jehovah in English (history)Exodus 6:3
How the word Jehovah entered English
Jehovah entered English through Tyndale’s 1530 Pentateuch, from a medieval reading of YHWH with Adonai’s vowels. How it spread and why LORD returned.
TetragrammatonExodus 3:15
The Tetragrammaton in Jewish tradition
The four Hebrew letters of God’s name and why Jewish readers say Adonai or HaShem: the Temple, the high priest, the Septuagint and the Masoretes.
HymnsColossians 3:16
The name Jehovah in the hymns of the church
Why hymn writers loved the name Jehovah, from Watts and Williams to Olivers, Cowper and M’Cheyne, and the Scripture behind the hymns that carry it.
American Standard Version (1901)Genesis 2:4
The name in the American Standard Version of 1901
The American Standard Version of 1901 prints Jehovah wherever the Hebrew has the name. Why its revisers chose it, how it differed from 1885, and what followed.