The names of the God and Yeshua

in IRENT translation of the New Testament

[Invitation to Reading in English – New Testament]

This is all about Life:

Life itself is that which is to be lived with a name
— in the name and for the name.

It is the Scripture which reveals the two life-giving names:

YHWH, the name of the only true God

and Yeshua, the name of His Mashiah,
YHWH

YHWH ░░ (Yahueh >Yahweh); /x: Jehovah – NWT; />> the Lord – KJV, most;

= Transliterate of Tetragrammaton (the name of the very God in Hebrew) for Gk. anarthrous
kurios (lord, master) for God in N.T where the name itself is to be revealed to the readers;
usually rendered as Adonai.]

Elohim, the Elohim

the Elohim ░░ Gk. ho theos (‘the God’) /> God – most;

the anarthrous theos as 'Elohim' /> God – most [In a few places where the word is not
specifically related to YHWH Almighty, it is rendered as 'God' or 'god'.]

Yeshua

Yeshua ░░ [Heb. 'salvation, deliverance'. It is a shortened form of Yehoshua (‘Yah

is Salvation’).] Not 'Jesus'. Gk. Iēsous is rendered as 'Yeshua' in IRENT. An
acceptable alternative is 'Iesu' based on the Greek but without the terminal s.
[/Iesus – KJV 1611, Geneva, Bishops, Latin; /Jesus – English, French, Spanish, etc.]

YHWH: (not simply 'the Lord'; not 'Jehovah') Transliterate of the Tetragrammaton, a
four-letter Hebrew word ‫( יהוה‬yod, hé, waw, hé) for the name [HaShem] of God in the
Scripture. (→ ΙΑΩ Greek trigrammaton): [‘Yah’ is a shortened form.] [Not ‘YHVH’ (as
in Modern Hebrew) or ‘JHVH’ (as in Latin).]

It is replaced with 'the LORD' in the O.T. translation of most English Bibles, which is
seriously compromised. Cf. LXX of late manuscripts renders as anarthrous Kurios; some
earlier manuscripts show the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew/Aramaic letters.

May be vocalized as Yahueh (> Yahweh); [Masoretic tradition has vowel pointing to
make it vocalized as in ‘Adonai’]
[[Not ‘Jehovah’ Cf. History of ‘J’: the sound j became only from 17th century with the
letter (glyph) “J” was a Gothic font for the capital “I”.]
Elohim: In the Greek N.T., ho theos is not simply ‘God’, but ‘the God’, and rendered as 'the
Elohim' in IRENT (e.g. Jn 1:1b where it is usually rendered as 'God'). The anarthrous theos occurs
much less frequently – often other than in nominative case – rendered in RENT as Elohim, God,
God-being as the context dictates. In Jn 1:1c it is rendered as 'what God is', whereas most renders
as 'God' without distinction between the two. Uncapitalized as 'god' or 'gods' when the referent is
not the Elohim, the God in the Scripture.

Yeshua ░░ [Heb. 'salvation, deliverance'. It is a shortened form of Yehoshua (‘Yah is

Salvation’).] Not 'Jesus'. Gk. Iēsous is rendered as 'Yeshua' in IRENT. An acceptable alternative
is 'Iesu' based on the Greek but without the terminal s.
[/Iesus – KJV 1611, Geneva, Bishops, Latin; /Jesus – English, French, Spanish, etc.]

In the New Testament,

He is as the Mashiah = the anointed one by the Elohim as king, priest, and prophet in O.T.
He is as the Son of the Elohim, the ‘only-begotten’
He is as the Incarnate Logos of the Elohim
He was the Master for those followed Him;
He is as the Lord (the risen and exalted Yeshua) for those who have come after.
Was born of a woman; not born of a virgin.
Not 'God the Son'; nor 'God the Incarnate'.

IRENT renders anarthrous Gk. kurios (‘lord’ 'master') as YHWH (36x) only where the
name itself should be revealed to the readers. Otherwise as ‘Adonai’ (115x). The arthrous
noun as 'the Adonai' (51x).

[Compare with LORD (ALT, NLT) and Lord (KJV, most). This conventional practice
does not help the readers distinguish which is referent to God ('Lord God') or to Yeshua
('Lord Yeshua').]
Yohan; John

All the name- which begin with 'J' in English translation are replaced the ones which
begins with 'Y'.

John, Yohan, Yohanan ░░ ‘John’ in English; Iōannēs in Gk; Yoḥanan in Hebrew

For the sake of easily distinguishing several people with this same common name, IRENT
renders it as follows.

(1) ‘John’ – This traditional English form is retained only in the titles of the Gospel and
the three Johannine Epistles. 1

(2) Yohan’ – IRENT renders this way only for the Apostle; a disciple (Apostle) of
Yeshua.
[A Zebedee’s son and a brother of Yaakob (x: James)] [This name of him (Yohan,
'John') as His disciple does NOT appear in the text of the Gospel and three Johannine
Epistles!]

(3) Yohanan’ – for Yohanan the Immerser ('John the baptizer') and all others with same
name.

1
Probably one and same author is responsible for all these five books. He can NOT be identical to the
prominent disciple (‘apostle’) of Yeshua in the Synoptic Gospels (rendered as Yohan in IRENT). He is
alluded as ‘the disciple Yeshua loved’ – Jn 19:26, 27; 20:2-3; 21:7, 20; the unnamed disciple – Jn 13:25ff;
Jn 18:15, 16. Probably he is the unnamed disciple whom Yeshua loved (Possibly Eleazar (> Lazarus) of
G-Jn Ch. 11. Reading material: The Lazarus Affair (fiction) by Ron McRay (2012).
 This work your reading is a new English translation of the Greek New Testament.
Surely it must be because of the person you know,
in most cases, by the name of 'Jesus'.

We say, 'I believe Jesus' or 'I believe in Jesus'.

However, in what sense we believe?

What Jesus and which Jesus?

The one metamorphosed and embellished in the doctrines

from the time of Constantin Roman Church (4th century)?

We must be honest and open

to Yeshua the Mashiah, the Son of Elohim, from the Four Gospels,

not ‘Jesus Christ’ of the Church,

who is made and became ‘God’, 'God Jesus', or 'God the Son'.

The Gospels were not written down for the people who did not know Him, but who knew and
were somehow challenged by Him.

The vocabulary in the translated text is, for some, bible-specific; others are in sense different from
than what most have accustomed to. Often the difference may be subtle; it is surprisingly quite
significant.

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