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Naming (Mis)Conventions

A naming convention is a convention for naming things. The intent is to allow useful information to
be deduced from the names based on regularities.
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_convention]

If there ever was a book that would benefit from following uniform rules for names, it is the Bible.
The Bible is a book of types and anti-types, of shadows and substance. Names not only bear
tremendous meaning in the Scriptures, but they serve as links whereby the natural and the spiritual
material in its pages might be connected.

Tragically, there has been no book in history wherein names have been recorded more inconsistently,
and rendered more arbitrarily, than the Bible. The mishmash of naming practices has led to the
obscuring of many deep and wonderful spiritual truths. If I were to sum up the state of names in the
most popular English Bibles, the word “confusion” would accurately describe it.

In an earlier chapter I mentioned the great disservice that copyists and Bible translators have done
in removing the memorial name of God (Yahweh) from scriptures. The name Yahweh occurs 6,828
times in the Old Testament. The King James Bible renders the divine name as Lord in nearly every
instance. Yet, even in this they were not completely consistent. In four occasions in the Old
Testament, the King James Bible renders the tetragrammaton as “JEHOVAH.” These occurrences
are found in Exodus 6:3, Psalm 83:18, Isaiah 12:2, and 26:4. I would like to examine the first
occurrence where the name Jehovah occurs in the King James Bible.

Exodus 6:3
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my
name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
KJV

The word JEHOVAH is a translation of the four Hebrew letters Yod He Vav He. The name Jehovah
has largely fallen out of favor with Bible scholars, as Yahweh is widely considered to be a better
translation. What is being conveyed in the KJV rendering of Exodus 6:3 is that Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob knew the Creator as “God Almighty,” but they were not familiar with the name “JEHOVAH,”
or other renderings of the tetragrammaton such as Yahweh. Is this is true statement? A good way to
check would be to read the book of Genesis, for it is there that the lives of these three men are