Names
Listed on the next two pages are some of the names and titles used to describe or call upon the Creator and his Messiah; that are either improper, misleading, insulting, outright deceitful, or just plain wrong . 

Why is it important to know the true name?

And said moreover unto Moses, Thus you shall say unto the children of Israel, the Ul of your fathers, the Ul of Abraham, the Ul of Isaac, and the Ul of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. Exod 3:15

Can I call him by any name? After all, He knows what I mean.

"And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth." Exod 23:13 (NKJ)

2.  GOD (in Old Testament Hebrew) 

There are many Hebrew words that have been translated into the English word God.

      (aleph lamed)                                              
"EL." semetic word for god;
'el (410), "god." This term was the most common general designation of deity in the ancient Near East. While it frequently occurred alone, 'el was also combined with other words to constitute a compound term for deity, or to identify the nature and functions of the "god" in some manner. 
(from Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words)
(Copyright (C) 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers)

El is actually more than "a term" for deity.
The chief Canaanite god of the ancient world was named "El," which means simply "God." This name should also be familiar as one of the names of the single 'god' of the Bible. El is also the king and head of the divine assembly, the council of the gods. He had a son named "Baal," also called Beelzebub.

The original archaic Hebrew word (pre-dating "el") is "Ul," shown below: 
(aleph waw lamed)

[ The waw receiving the vowel point shureq, to indicate a "oo" or "u" sound.]

The plural form is "Ulheem" as opposed to "Elohim."

Strong's Concordance #193 'uwl (ool);
from an unused root meaning to twist, i.e. (by implication) be strong; the body (as being rolled together); also powerful; mighty, strength.

Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon shows #410 "El" to be (1) prop.part. of the verb "Ul."

Werner Keller in his book,  The Bible As History, gives us a good look at how the Canaanite religion influenced the children of Israel.  Keller examined the historical world of the Bible, by researching the works of Biblical archaeologists. His book has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Below is an excerpt from the book:

Among the "children of Israel" naked figures of "Astarte" were quite common. Even "in the shadow of the temple," so to speak, of Soloman's Temple in Jerusalem, the British archaeologist Kathleen M. Kenyon excavated a room which pillars for the cult showed to be a heathen place of worship. Popular religion as practiced by the children of Israel, then, was in reality rather different from what the Bible would have us believe. The Bible itself allows us far too many glimpses of this.
 .......The despised and accursed religion of ancient Canaan has helped us to reach a new understanding of Biblical statements about the "religion of the fathers." And when the Biblical fathers called upon El-Elyon (the "all highest"), El-Olam ("the ancients of ancients", "the eternal"), El-Roy ("he who appears," "he who sees me") and "El-Shaddai" ("the highest," or "almighty"), their prayers were directed, as many scholars believe, to the chief Canaanite god El in one of his local variants.

"For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight," says Yhwh. "They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it."
Jer 7:30 

It appears from the scripture shown above, that the scholars are correct. Idols were placed in the temple.

Is the modern name for the nation of Israel actually a composite of three pagan deities? One of which is from the Egyptian trinity of Osiris (the father), Isis (the mother), and Horus (the son)?

IS (Isis)  
RA ( the Egyptian sun god)
EL  (chief deity of the Canaanites)
Strong's Concordance lists the pronunciation of (Israel) as:

Yisra'el (yis-raw-ale') by articulating the vowel points of the Masoretic Text. 
However, the archaic pronunciation of yodh-shin-resh-waw-lemed would more accurately be YawSharUl. (3474 and 193). Meaning, The Mighty One (UL) has made me right, pleasant, and prosperous.

Simply put, "El" has to be one of the most insulting and blasphemous names someone can use of the "Mighty One" of YawsharUl.

Look at the archaic version of King Saul's name:

7586 Sha'uwl (shaw-ool'); passive participle of 7592; asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites: Gen 36:37

3.  The Creator's Name  YHWH (Strong's Concordance No. 3068)

   (in Biblical Hebrew)

   (in Paleo Hebrew)

  H  W  H  Y    (Hebrew is read from right to left)
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H. Gesenius' translate #3068 as follows:

In other words, the Masoretes spelt the name of the creator (some of the time) in this manner:

Yod (consonant "Y") 
vowel point She-waw (vowel "e") 
Hay (consonant "H") 
vowel point chow-lem (vowel "o") 
Waw (consonant "W") 
vowel point kaw-mates ( vowel "aw") 
Hay (consonant "H")

which articulates as Ye-Ho-Vah (or Ye-Ho Waw) Some pronounce this as "Yahweh" but that pronunciation can not be substantiated form these particular vowel point. 

The name Yah-weh breaks three Hebrew grammar rules. It is really just an attempt to make the Creator's name have a male ending, by giving it a hard "a" rather than using the proper feminine passive participle of the verb "Yasha" which means to be open (or free) and causatively - saved.
Recently, a new name [Yahusha] has surfaced among Messianic groups as a name for the Mashiyach. This name applies the same technique used to form Yahweh, for the purpose of giving the Messiah's name a male ending. The "sha" part of the verb Yasha (3467) is simply placed at the end of Yahu. 

Strong translates the Hebrew as:

3068 Yehovah (yeh-ho-vaw');
from 1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:

Jehovah is a transliteration, and cannot be correct. In as much as the letter "J" was the last letter introduced into the English alphabet (see any dictionary) and did not appear in print until the 1500's. As Gesenius wrote, the vowel points are not those used to spell the word Adonai, though that word is substituted in place of the true pronunciation. Even Gesenius wondered  "what then are its true and genuine vowels? 
Strong's Hebrew dictionary translates the first two letters of the Creator's name (when they appear alone) as being a contraction for 3068, and pronounced as "Yaw.":

3050 Yahh (yaw);
contraction for 3068, and meaning the same; Jah, the sacred name: 

Gesenius writes as follows:



Take for example the first proper name Gesenius lists above, to use three letters of the Creator's name at the end of his own name. He is the person (called in English) "Elijah." [ref # 452]. 
 
 Which is spelt; aleph, lamed, yodh, he, &  waw.  

The yodh having the vowel point "kamets," giving it an "aw" sound.
The waw receiving the vowel point shureq, to indicate a "oo" or "u" sound.

Strong's concordance articulates this name as:

452 'Eliyah (ay-lee-yaw');
or prolonged 'Eliyahuw (ay-lee-yaw'-hoo); from 410 and 3050; God of Jehovah; Elijah, the name of the famous prophet and of two other Israelites: 

As mentioned earlier, the name El is there to pay homage to the Canaanite god, El. I prefer not to pay homage to El, so I use the oldest known term for strength and might,  "Ul." I pronoucne this name, in its archaic form as, Uliyahu (uwl-ee-yaw-hoo) meaning "Yahu the Almighty."

I continued to look up personal names of individuals (recorded in the scriptures) that bear two or three of the letters (in sequence) of the Creator's name. Below is a partial list.

Most of the names appear around the time of King David (some are from before), but certainly prior to the Assyrian and Babylonian captivity. 

To look at some of these names written in Hebrew
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The Creator's name (YHWH) as it appears in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Note that although the script is Aramaic Hebrew (post Babylonian exile), the Creator's name is written in the earlier Paleo Hebrew.

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So what then is the full pronunciation of the four letters of our Creator's name?

I believe it is Yahuah ( pronounced yaw- hoo- ah). 
Based on the vowel points used to express "Yaw-Hoo" in the most ancient of personal names (shown above) that end in "Yod-Hay-Waw).
Then, by adding the final "hay," which in Hebrew is a quiescent letter and pronounced as a soft "ah." 

Yod (kaw-mates) Hay, Waw (shureq) Hay - Yaw Hoo ah!

[For additional info see the page "Yaw not Yah"]

See also, notes on the tribe of praise "Yaw-hoo-dah"

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