Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "UsefulCharts" channel.

@UsefulCharts I'd just like to point out 1 small fact regarding the Jehovah's Witnesses. They are all quite well aware of the pronunciation debate over the tetragrammaton. They all accept that in ancient Israel that it was probably pronounced (phonetically) Yah-way. In fact Witnesses know quite well that the spelling Jehovah and the way you have pronounced it here its the Anglicised version of the name and that in many other languages it is spelt and pronounced differently and it has been that way for centuries. If you go to sources like the Oxford dictionary it will tell you that the spelling and pronunciation of the tetragrammaton YHWH IN ENGLISH is just as you have spelt it (Jehovah) and pronounced it in this video. I know the spelling Jehovah was used in the King James Bible published in 1611, which is just over 240 years before before Charles Taze Russell (1852 – 1916) was born. I'd expect you know the reason that nobody does know how it was pronounced in ancient times is oddly highlighted in the film Life of Brian during the stoning scene. The Jews by that time rarely used the name of God to avoid violating the 3rd commandment about using God's name in a vain or useless way. I'd expect you know that in the earliest form of written Israelite language there are no vowels. So in the oldest inscriptions we just have the 4 consonants YHWH. By the time the Israelites did use vowels they'd stopped using the name. The assumption that it was pronounced (phonetically) Yah-way is based on similarly spelled names like Yehoshua which is the older Hebrew/Yiddish version of Joshua. Its like the way Spanish people pronounce Jesus as if it was spelt Hay-zus with a 'H' and 'z'. Its like how Juan is the Spanish version of John but its pronounced as if it starts with a 'W.' I hope that helps in any of your future studies or publications.
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