<P> Biblical scholar Francis B. Dennio, in an article he wrote, in the Journal of Biblical Literature, said: "Jehovah misrepresents Yahweh no more than Jeremiah misrepresents Yirmeyahu . The settled connotations of Isaiah and Jeremiah forbid questioning their right ." Dennio argued that the form "Jehovah" is not a barbarism, but is the best English form available, being that it has for centuries gathered the necessary connotations and associations for valid use in English . </P> <P> According to a Jewish tradition developed during the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE, the Tetragrammaton is written but not pronounced . When read, substitute terms replace the divine name where יְהֹוָה ‬ appears in the text . It is widely assumed, as proposed by the 19th - century Hebrew scholar Gesenius, that the vowels of the substitutes of the name--Adonai (Lord) and Elohim (God)--were inserted by the Masoretes to indicate that these substitutes were to be used . When יהוה precedes or follows Adonai, the Masoretes placed the vowel points of Elohim into the Tetragrammaton, producing a different vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יֱהֹוִה ‬, which was read as Elohim . Based on this reasoning, the form יְהֹוָה ‬ (Jehovah) has been characterized by some as a "hybrid form", and even "a philological impossibility". </P> <P> Early modern translators disregarded the practice of reading Adonai (or its equivalents in Greek and Latin, Κύριος and Dominus) in place of the Tetragrammaton and instead combined the four Hebrew letters of the Tetragrammaton with the vowel points that, except in synagogue scrolls, accompanied them, resulting in the form Jehovah . This form, which first took effect in works dated 1278 and 1303, was adopted in Tyndale's and some other Protestant translations of the Bible . In the 1560 Geneva Bible, the Tetragrammaton is translated as Jehovah six times, four as the proper name, and two as place - names . In the 1611 King James Version, Jehovah occurred seven times . In the 1885 English Revised Version, the form Jehovah occurs twelve times . In the 1901 American Standard Version the form "Je - ho'vah" became the regular English rendering of the Hebrew יהוה, all throughout, in preference to the previously dominant "the LORD", which is generally used in the King James Version . It is also used in Christian hymns such as the 1771 hymn, "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah". </P> <P> The most widespread theory is that the Hebrew term יְהֹוָה ‬ has the vowel points of אֲדֹנָי ‬ (adonai). Using the vowels of adonai, the composite hataf patah ֲ ‬ under the guttural alef א becomes a sheva ְ ‬ under the yod י, the holam ֹ ‬ is placed over the first he ה, and the qamats ָ ‬ is placed under the vav ו, giving יְהֹוָה ‬ (Jehovah). When the two names, יהוה and אדני, occur together, the former is pointed with a hataf segol ֱ ‬ under the yod י and a hiriq ִ ‬ under the second he ה, giving יֱהֹוִה ‬, to indicate that it is to be read as (elohim) in order to avoid adonai being repeated . </P>

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