How does one say "I" or I AM in Hebrew?

[Honza]

And how does it relate to YHWH or Yahweh?

Here's a good explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_that_I_Am

[Honza]

I saw that, thankyou. Some of the guys here have a better understanding of the subject than that.

hey why do u say yahwe? just curious

[RabbiO]

Originally Posted by heartsmart

hey why do u say yahwe?

As opposed to??

B'shalom,

Peter

[Honza]

Originally Posted by heartsmart

hey why do u say yahwe? just curious

It is a long story.....apparently Jehovah is a mispronounciation of Yahweh. It is very complicated and I've been over this before in my head, but some reminders would help.

[RabbiO]

Originally Posted by Honza

It is a long story.....apparently Jehovah is a mispronounciation of Yahweh. It is very complicated and I've been over this before in my head, but some reminders would help.

Hebrew scripture is written without vowels.

When vowel signs were developed, the vowel signs for Adonai were placed into the tetragramaton as reminder to substitute that term when reading aloud YHWH. When you add those vowels to YHWH you get "Yehovah" which was never the name of G-d, which led to the erroneous Christian translation of "Jehovah."

L'shalom,

Peter

[AHIYAH]

Originally Posted by RabbiO

Hebrew scripture is written without vowels.

When vowel signs were developed, the vowel signs for Adonai were placed into the tetragramaton as reminder to substitute that term when reading aloud YHWH. When you add those vowels to YHWH you get "Yehovah" which was never the name of G-d, which led to the erroneous Christian translation of "Jehovah."

L'shalom,

Peter

You may have missed the vowel letters or vowel consonants if you will. Yodh,Waw,Hei this would've been the transition stage before the vowel signs were added. The so called name YHWH is spelt without vowels because of the different dialects back then. One dialect which is also Phoenecian is YaHaWaHa which is funny because in my language Waha means mouth. According to the so called Scriptures when this God figure gave Moses the so called name AlefHei YodhHei the dialect that is now accepted as Hebrew is EH YeH and is translated as I am that I am, or even I am that I will be and to me is I and I which can be AlefTaw. The dialect that I prefer is AHIYAH. It's again funny because Ahi in my language is Fire/Light, so since there are cultures that refer to Yah as Great Spirit I prefer to look at that supposed name YAH as the unexplained energy.
What I really want to ask you is using the now hebrew language could you translate the word Maori that would be MemAlefWawReishYodh, the Waw is a Vowel consonant. In my language Maori simply means Ordinary Man/Woman/People.
Shalamah.

[Honza]

I just found on an English-Hebrew translator on the internet that the English "I" in Hebrew is

אני

How does one say that in English?

[RabbiO]

Originally Posted by Honza

I just found on an English-Hebrew translator on the internet that the English "I" in Hebrew is How does one say that in English?

First off, אני is pronounced "ah-nee."

Second, it also means "I am," because there is no present tense form for "is" or "are" or "am" in either Biblical or modern Hebrew. What is often translated as "I am that I am" is, in Hebrew scripture, written in the future tense.

L'shalom,

Peter