The Story of Gods Name

This is the story of Jehovahs name.Jehovah the causative form of Hebrew verb Hawah.Gods personal name.Isaiah 42:8,54:5.Jehovah known as Yahweh.The old Hebrew manuscripts present the name in four consonants called the tetragrammation.Superstition arises among Jews that it is wrong to pronounce Gods name.Another was to keep non-jewish people from knowing the name and misusing it.But God said he would have his name declared in all the earth.Exodus 9:16,! Chronicles 16:23,24 ,Psalms 113:7,Maqlichi 1:11,14.Another purpose was to protect the name from magical rites.Evidence sugest the name ceased to be used by about 300 B.C.E.In Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia the name occurs 6,828 times.