|Hebrew Names of God| |The Sacred Name YHVH| |The Name as
Revealed in the Tanakh| |In the Tanakh, YHVH is the personal
name of God and his most frequent designation, occurring over
6,800 times. This is the Ineffable Name or Unutterable Name of
the God of Israel. Because it is composed from the four Hebrew
letters Yod, Hey, Vav, and Hey, it is also referred to as the
“Tetragrammaton,” which simply means “the four letters.” When
God commissioned Moses to be Israel’s liberator from the bondage
of Pharaoh’s Egypt, he asked for God’s Name in order to validate
his God-given role to the children of Israel (see Exodus 3:14).
God simply answered Moses, “ehyeh-asher-ehyeh” The phrase ehyeh
asher ehyeh (rendered as “I am who I am” in the KJV) derives
from the Qal imperfect first person form of the verb havah: "I
will be," and therefore indicates a connection between the Name
YHVH and being itself. YHVH is the Source of all being and has
being inherent in Himself (i.e., He is necessary Being).
Everything else is continge