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    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • The Tetragrammaton

      The Tetragrammaton, YHWH: “He Causes to Become”

      Hebrew text for the verb “to become”

      The verb HWH: “to become”

      In Hebrew, the name Jehovah comes from a verb that means “to become,” and a number of scholars feel that it reflects the causative form of that Hebrew verb.

  • A4 The Divine Name in the Hebrew Scriptures
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
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