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Did Jesus read “Yahweh” out loud in the synagogue at Nazareth?

Answered by BibleQ . September 29, 2022 - 6:24 pm

Answer : The answer to this question is clearly no, since the passage (in Luke 4:18 ) records Jesus reading “Lord”, in accordance with Jewish custom from the Maccabean period onward and then states “all spoke well of him” (v22). So evidently Jesus did nothing in his reading of Isaiah to upset the synagogue. The […]

How can Exodus 6:3 say “by my name YHWH I was not known” when Genesis uses the name YHWH around 140 times?

Answered by BibleQ . October 4, 2021 - 2:23 am

Context in Exodus 6 – God Promises Deliverance 6:1 But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.” 2 God spoke to Moses and said […]

Should we use God’s name, Yahweh, when talking about or to him?

Answered by BibleQ . August 30, 2013 - 1:24 am

The divine name YHWH appears only in the Hebrew Old Testament. It appears without vowels in the Hebrew text, and is read with the Hebrew word for ‘Lord’ both by Jews and in traditional Protestant Bibles. The spelling Yahweh occurs in some Bibles like the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible. Yahweh is also how scholars of […]

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Did Jesus read “Yahweh” out loud in the synagogue at Nazareth?

How can Exodus 6:3 say “by my name YHWH I was not known” when Genesis uses the name YHWH around 140 times?

Should we use God’s name, Yahweh, when talking about or to him?

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