the Berasit Hebrew Dictionary

יהוה

Jehovah, Yahweh, and Yhvh redirect to here.

'Ihoh' is the proper name of the legendary “lord” of the hyberi (Hebrew) people.

There is much debate about the “correct” pronunciation of this name. The most common alternatives are “Yahweh” or Jehovah“. This serves as a good example and reminder that frankly we just do not know how the ancient people would have pronounced most of the Hebrew words, and we can only guess at their pronunciation but can at least try to be consistent.

While pronunciation is essentially unknowable, the same is not true of spelling. “Ihoh” is the definitive spelling of name of the central character in the ancient Hebrew texts.

Based on its own internal origin story documented in Exodus 3, this name appears to stem from the root word ahih (אהיה), and essentially means “I am”. This explanation is somewhat dubious though, given the rather substantial spelling differences between ihoh and ahih.

Although commonly misinterpreted to play the role of “the Creator”, Ihoh is conspicuously absent from the first chapter of the book of Genesis.

Ihoh's first appearance is in Genesis chapter 2, but only in a rather offhand reference where he is retroactively credited as one of the Elohim who was involved in the events of chapter one. This narrative will be explored further within the Genesis 2 commentary.

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Ihoh is often described as being one of the alehim, and sometimes described as a semim. In fact, the texts suggests that Ihoh is one character within a type of social structure that is explored further at Semim Hierarchy

The ancient Hebrew people considered Ihoh their “lord”. At least, some of the Hebrew people did, at least some of the time.

LexID 3068 (also 3069, 3070-3074)