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Well, to be fair, it wasn't the authors of the Bible. AFAIK, the word for God in ancient Hebrew doesn't directly translate to God in English. I think in the ori
by garettmd 8y ago
Well, to be fair, it wasn't the authors of the Bible. AFAIK, the word for God in ancient Hebrew doesn't directly translate to God in English. I think in the original language God's name is a more specific name than it is in English (YHWH). From Wikipedia on "Names of God in Judaism":
The name of God most often used in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton (YHWH יהוה). It is frequently anglicized as Jehovah and Yahweh and written in most English editions of the Bible as "the Lord" owing to the Jewish tradition increasingly viewing the divine name as too sacred to be uttered. It was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the Hebrew word Adonai (“My Lords”), which was translated as Kyrios (“Lord”) in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures.[1]