Jehovah
the most sacred of the Supreme Being, regarded also as the God specially of the Jewish people. So holy was the name deemed that the Jews were and therefore took means intentionally afraid to allow it to escape their lips, to mispronounce it by altering its vowel two occur together, of Elohim, less sacred points to those of Adonai, or, when the names for God . This practice arose from their having misinterpreted such pass- 15, 16; Exod. xx: 7. What the real ages ages as Deut. xxviii: 58; Lev. xxiv: 11, . xxiv: 11, vowel points , and consequently the proper pronunciation, should be is now doubtful.
Many critics contend for Hebrew, Yahveh, some for Yahvah, and rived from havah, an old form of haiah some for Yahavoh. It is generally de- = He is. The import of the name is ex- He is. The import of the name is exam," or "I am," thus predicating selfplained in Exod. iii: 14. "I am that I existence or existence in a sense in which it can be applied to no created being.
In Exod. vi: 3 we read that God appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by the known to them by the name of Jehovah. name of God Almighty, but was not The meaning may have been that the patriarchs did not properly realize the word occurs in Gen. xiv: 22, xxvi: 22, xxviii: 16. Elohim stands for God as the creator and ruler of the universe in the most intimate relation to the Jew- (Gen. (Gen. i: 1); Jehovah as a being standing ish people as their theocratic ruler and : 4), as supreme above all gods (verse 5), the First and the Last ( Isa. xli: 4), nay, the only true God (xliv: 5, 8).
JEHOIAKIM (jē-hoi'ä-kim), a King of Judah, advanced to the throne of Judah 608 B. C. as a tributary of Pharoah Egypt, to whom, as the price of his elevation, he gave 500 talents of silver and one talent of gold. Though by the prophet Jeremiah to walk in the paths of virtue, Jehoiakim idolatry and wickedness.
His pride brought down upon himself depth of meaning in the name, for the and unfortunate country the vengeance of the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, who besieged Jerusalem, rifled the temple and leaving the humiliated king as his tributary on the throne returned to Babylon carrying with him some of the principal principal inhabitants of Jerusalem, the being among the captives. He died in 597 в. tives. He died in 597 B. C.