Jehovah

Japanese: Jehovah
Jehovah

…Judaism avoids chanting the divine name, and instead adds unrelated vowels to the sacred four letters YHWH, often calling him Adonai (Lord) and the eternal Kele (reading). The name Jehovah is based on a misreading made by the Christian church in the 16th century, when this custom was forgotten. Linguistically, Yahweh (or Yahweh) is related to the Semitic verb ha-ya, meaning to generate or be, but historically, its relationship with YHWə, which appears in documents left by the Shasu (or Shosu), a nomadic group in southern Palestine, has been noted. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Jehovah" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ユダヤ教では神名を唱えるのを避け,聖四文字YHWHにそれと無関係の母音符号を付し,多くの場合〈アドナイ(主)〉と呼び,〈永遠のケレー(読み)〉と称した。エホバJehovahという呼称は,この習慣を忘れた16世紀以来のキリスト教会の誤読に基づく。ヤハウェ(あるいはヤーウェ)とは,言語学的には,セム語の〈生成する,である〉を意味する動詞ハーヤーと関係するが,歴史的には,南パレスティナの遊牧民集団シャースー(またはショースー)の残した文書に現れるYHWəとの関係が注目されている。…

※「Jehovah」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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