THE “ah” / “eh” ARGUMENT

Some say that Hebrew words ending with an “ah” sound are feminine (i.e. Sarah,

Rebecca) and that the “eh” is masculine. This argument is used against יהוה being

pronounced with an "ah" ending. It is said that “eh” ending is correct because of its

“masculine” termination. Indeed, many Hebrew words with the “ah” termination are

considered feminine. However this argument fails when one examines Hebrew proper

names. Notice only one of the names below is feminine [in italic grey], while the majority

are masculine. It is common for Greeks to transliterate Hebrew names ending with

different vowels because of their own ideas as to what is masculine and/or feminine (and

also according to their pagan ail’ names), but יהוה is a proper Name that was revealed

to Hebrews and recorded phonetically in Hebrew, whereby evidence from the Hebrew

should be used as the primary source to recover the pronunciation and Greek (along with

other languages that use an A or AH ending) only secondarily. For the purpose of

accuracy, being The Sacred Name ends in the Hebrew letter Heh, the names ending with

the Hebrew letter Heh are underlined.

Here are a few examples of Hebrew names that end with an ah/akh/aw sounds with transliterations of these same names rendered in Greek: [All names are spelled

according to the pronunciation guides in the Strong’ Dict. or LXX Ttransliterated Bible]

Hebrew Names: Greek transliterations:

(Masorete Text) (Textus Receptus NT) Ho-shay-ah ~ Num. 13:16 / Hosea 1:1 Ho-say-eh ~ Romans 9:25

Ko-rakh ~ Numbers 16:1 Kor-eh ~ Jude verse 11

No-akh ~ Genesis 6:22 No-eh ~ Matthew 24:37

No-gah ~ 1 Chronicles 3:7 Nang-gah-ee ~ Luke 3:25

(LXX [Septuagint])

Ad-naw ~ Ezra 10:30 Edene ~ Septuagint

Akh-ee-rah ~ Numbers 1:15 Achire ~ Septuagint

Ah-yaw ~ Genesis 36:24 Aie ~ Septuagint

El-ee-shaw ~ 1 Kings 19:16 Elisaie ~ Septuagint

Khash-oo-baw ~ 1 Chronicles 3:20 Asoube ~ Septuagint

Yeh-ho-yaw-daw ~ 2 Samuel 8:18 Iodaee ~ Breton Septuagint

Yeh-ho-sheh-bah ~ 2 Kings 11:2 Iosabee ~ Septuagint

Mas-saw ~ Genesis 25:14 Masse ~ Septuagint

Miz-zaw ~ Genesis 36:13 Moze ~ Septuagint

Peh-kakh ~ 2 Kings 15:25 Phakee ~ Septuagint

Reh-fakh ~ 1 Chronicles 7:25 Raphe ~ Septuagint

Sham-maw ~ Genesis 36:13 Some ~ Septuagint

Sheh-bah ~ 2 Samuel 20:1 Sabee ~ Septuagint

Tek-o-ah ~ 1 Chronicles 2:24 Thekoe ~ Septuagint

Zeh-rakh ~ 2 Chronicles 14:9 Zare ~ Septuagint

[There are many more masculine names that end with the letter Heh that are pronounced as “ah”, such as

Yahu-Dah (Judah); Yahu-Nah (Jonah) – http://yahushua.net/YAHUWAH/chapter_16.htm ]

P.S. – The transliteration of “Yahweh” seems to be either a very late English rendition of

with the vowel points of HaShem, or perhaps a transliteration of the Roman deity יהוה

JOVE (variant spellings: IOVE; JOWE; and YAWE) a.k.a.- Jupiter [could you see that

one coming?]. Still trust the Greeks so-called transliterations for The Sacred Name?

[See also: http://yahushua.net/YAHUWAH/chapter_06.htm?#137_Names_with_YAH ]

Other Historic Sources on the Sacred Name יהוה Yaua - Assyrians Ioua - Sabbath keepers on Island of Iona, 7th Century.

Yuah / Y’wa / Yuwa - Karens of Burma, [Encyc. Britannica]

Iowa / Yowa - American Indians, especially Cherokee

Yava - Arizona Indians

Yo He Wah - Adairs History of the American Indians (1775), p. 18

Yohouah - Raymundus Martini (1278)

Iova - Romans

Iohoua - Porchetus (1303)

Iehovah - Peter Galatin (1518)

Ya Huwa - Arabs (see also: http://ha-shem.followersofyah.com/B-Earl-Allen/chapter_15.htm )

Greek Sources (note the similarities with one another and the Roman ail’ name Jove)

IABE - Theodoret & Epiphanius

Iae - Origen

IAOVE- Clement of Alexandria

Jave - Ante Nicene fathers

Jove – Homer (this is the exact spelling for the Roman ail’ [Jupiter] name. Jupiter is the

king of the Roman ails, equivalent to the Greek Zeus. The Romans called the largest

planet in the solar system after Jupiter. Jupiter is also known as Jove.) (See: http://jesus-messiah.com/html/jove-is-yahweh.html )

According to all the evidence the Greek consistently mis-transliterated the “ah”

sound at the end of all Hebrew names (with the “eh” sound). Especially being there

are many other languages that consistently transliterated the “ah” sound, which is

further evidence that stands to reason showing that the Greeks were perverted in

their doings, thereby the end of the Tetragrammaton should be pronounced as “ah”.

Also the Greeks, consistently, used vowels to represent the spelling of the Sacred

Name yet it is argued that the Hebrew spelling is made up of consonants, showing

further that on can not use the Greeks transliterations as a final authority as to any

particular sound within the Tetragrammaton [they can be used only as secondary

evidence to support other more substantial evidence]. No offence but using the

Greek’ “Epsilon” for an excuse to pronounce the last syllable as “eh” is as absurd as

using the Greek’ “Iota” to say that the first sound is to be as the vowel “ee sound”

instead of the consonantal “y sound”. The evidence left behind in Greek is not

conclusive by any means, and one should by all means first look to the Hebrew for

examples. And if one is going to consider the Greek transliterations they should take

into consideration the over all totality of habitual tendencies before jumping to a

conclusion. Again one can not honestly look just at what the Greek texts have and

draw a so-called decent conclusion when so much evidence says other wise.