The
Restored Name King James Version is a revision of the King James Bible which uses the Hebrew tetragrammaton YHWH for the name of
GodGod is a deity in theistic and deistic religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
. This is one of several
sacred name BiblesSacred name Bibles are Bibles that use the Sacred Name Yahweh , or some variation of it, in both the Old and the New Testaments. Many of these translations also use a Semitic form of the name Jesus such as "Yeshua"....
in English, produced with the explicit goal of printing God's name in English letters in a way that is faithful to the original Hebrew form. It is an undated online version that is based on the Holy Name Bible text of the Scripture Research Association as modified by the individual hosting the website.
It spells the form of the Hebrew
tetragrammatonTetragrammaton refers to the Hebrew term ', the name of the God depicted in the Bible....
, the name that God gave to Moses, as the original four consonants, in captital letters: "YHWH". Also, the Hebrew word
ElohimElohim is a Hebrew word which expresses concepts of divinity. It is apparently related to the Hebrew word ēl, though morphologically it consists of the Hebrew word Eloah with a plural suffix...
is transliterated. The translation of Exodus 3:16 illustrates both of these, "Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, YHWH Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt."
In the
New TestamentThe New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christian Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament, both terms being associated with Supersessionism...
, it spells the name of Jesus in a way that tries to capture the pronunciation of the name's Hebrew origin: "Yahushua". It also uses the Hebrew-based form of the name for God in the New Testament (which was written in Greek): "Yahushua answering said unto them, 'Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to YHWH the things that are YHWH's'" (Mark 12:17).
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