ullangoo wrote today at 5:14 AM
mercedo saidI wonder how accurate your knowledge is! Not sure but I believe Elohim means simply One God, on the other hands YHWH is used as proper noun, literally means God makes. They say Elohim was Israel origin and YHWH Juda. Hm. Elohim is a plural form, actually - El is the singular, and we don't find that except as ending in personal names, e.g. Mika-el. It may simply mean "god", or it may be the name of a tribal god other than Jahveh. We/they don't know.The original form is Jahveh, and that is with certainty a proper name - like Apollon or Thor. They changed the vowels in it because it became too holy to pronounce or write in its original form. Thus they got Jehovah which resembles the present causative participle of the verb "to be"; it means "the one who makes things be". That etymology is found I forget where, I think in Exodus, and it is a completely false one.The above has been taught me by University professors who had studied Hebrew for 20 years. I assume it's accurate.