- Four forms of the Name (YHWH, Yahweh, Jehovah, LORD)The Name
- YHWH, Yahweh, Jehovah, LORD: the four forms explained
Four spellings, one name. What the consonants YHWH are, where Yahweh and Jehovah come from, and why most English Bibles print LORD in small capitals instead. - Psalm 83:18
- LORD (small capitals)The Name
- Why most English Bibles print LORD in small capitals
LORD in small capitals stands for the name YHWH; Lord in ordinary type is the title Adonai. Where the convention came from, and why the ASV broke with it. - Psalm 110:1
- Jehovah in English (history)History
- 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. - Exodus 6:3
- American Standard Version (1901)History
- 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. - Genesis 2:4