This is a delightfully comprehensive example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Some people work on the premise that if something is said loudly enough that makes it true.

Thank you for continuing to oppose the spread of misinformation!

"Nah, I'm good" I think Dan said it for us all.

The motivation for groups like this is "we know things that others don't," a key influence tactic for cults or high-demand groups. Thank you, Dan, for clarifying.

Does he think when police arrest people in the name of the law they are called Law? 😂

I appreciate this video as I have some friends who are in the "Hebrew Roots" and the amount of times they're using so many different variations of the divine name, or refusing to use the name Jesus (only referring to him as Yeshua) is astounding.

Thanks for your explanations, Dan! 🙏. I appreciate your debunking ignorance and misinformation around biblical subjects.

I really want to make a video ranting about ancient Hebrew words but write them in Klingon or Elvish and see who, aside from Dan McClellan, notices.

I like his brag about 31% or 1/3. That leaves 2/3 that don't follow Jesus, no matter how you pronounce the name.

So sure, so insistent and so utterly wrong. So foolish.

Dan I love your content. Keep up the great work!

Keep up the good work Dan. Your content is always interesting, concise, and backed with scholarly authority. Why So many Christians fear truth remains a mystery to me

Always so informative and exhilarating! Thanks, again.

A brilliant bit of debunking as so often with your videos, Dan. Many thanks.

Thanks for this Dan.

These people are exhausting.

Concordance strikes again

it's either my way or Yahweh.

It's great Spicoli found religion!

I am so glad you are doing this, I’m learning so much. Thank you.

The wildest thing to me about all these guys who think everyone but them pronounces God’s name wrong is like, if there were a divine, all knowing, all powerful, always present God, he’d know if you were talking to him… he’d know what you meant… and I don’t think he’d care

Did bro just use Google search results as proof???

The name yhwh is lost. We cant be sure about the meaning, the full name with diacritic marks and the pronunciation. And God in the bible has many names. Abraham, Jacob and Isaac knew a different name or names. The Nt doesn't value the name too

Thank you I almost purchased the Cepher bible 😮

Yusuf Ben MatithYahu (Josephus to scholars) said the Name was 4 vowels on the golden headpiece worn by the Kohen ha Gadol. People are finding Truth like this all over the Internet. There is only one Alahim, He has only one Name, YAHUAH (yod-hay-uau-hay as read from right-to-left in the Eberith script). It can be phonetically uttered in Latin letters as YAHUAH (H3068). He gives evidence of His true Name 6,823 times in the TaNaK, and declares Yahuah is His "memorial" to all generations. YashaYahu (Is.) 42:8 says, "I am Yahuah; that is My Name, and I do not give My esteem to another, nor My praise to idols." - In no place did Yahuah tell us we can consider the names He inspired in His perfect Word to be equivalent to the names we are being programmed with by false teachers. They are false teachers because they teach falsehoods. The Name of our Creator was literally wiped-clean from the most popular Scripture translations. #YahuahIsYahusha

That "Nah, I'm good" at the end. Gold.

Reminds me of the time I was studying clasical greek and (ignorantly) tried to tell someone Eureka meant "Good" -something, because Eu is a prefix that means good. Totally wrong root. Knowing just enough to get you into trouble.

Looks like we have found our ultimate biblical misinformation himbo

If Mr. McClellan did this in front of a live studio audience, he would say, “This is...” and then the audience would shout “Pure and Utter Nonsense.” How great! This channel is one of the better things KZfaq does.

Does he also sell crystals on a California Beach ?

The stupid, it burns!

It's actually "Yahoo!" 😅 like the email/search engine... anyone remember that? No?... fair

I saw that “nah, I’m good” coming a mile away.

I love your last comment. I was thinking the same thing. So, the Vav. The ancient pronunciation, did it file the Sephardic w or the Ashkenazi v that modern Hebrew uses?

"Nah, i'm good." Lmao.

Are we talking a great wise compassionate god.... Or a magical incantation? Because only the latter would pronunciation matter.

We’re definitely lucky to have Dan.

If you can't make it good, make it loud.

The original creator doesn't know how transliteration works.

We have two religions, Christianity and Judaism, that don't know how to pronounce the name of their God. Yet, they will tell you that they got all minor details right and the most important thing ie who God is, they have no clue. Really weird.

Thank you. So many people are listening and believing him without true guidance or wisdom.

Shoutouts to the dude for trying. Most people who claim the Bible is the most divine and important document in the whole universe don't even attempt to read or understand it in its original languages.

Esho msheekha

Wait - so there's no "E" sound in the HEbrew language, which was spoken by the people IsraEl? The same people who also call their god El-Elyon? As well as Elohim? And who call acts of charity TzEdakah? And the same people where the observant men among them will say each morning "ModEh Ani"? The funny part about that last one is that Hebrew is a gendered language, so in the "Modeh Ani" prayer, the only difference between the male version and the female version is the word "Modeh", which in this context means "to give thanks". When a woman says that verb, she says "ModAh".

Proof that ignorance is free and abundant...

That is so embarrassing. I’m a pronomian Christian. Which I get lumped with the Hebrew Rooters. It would be nice if they’d just stop and find good scholars and not internet junkies

The Son of God's name can be pronounced in Aramaic as: "Yeshua [יֵשוּעַ]" (Syr. Pron.) or "Isho [יִשוֹע]" (Assyrian/Chaldean Pronunciation). Yeshua is of Hebrew origin & can mean: "salvation" - from the similarly spelled Hebrew word: YESHUAH (FS) [יְשוּעָה] "salvation." Otherwise, Yeshua is also the short SPELLING [form] of the Hebrew name YEHOSHUA [יְהוֹשוּעַ] (Joshua - KJV Pron.) & could be defined by its full spelling. YEHOSHUA means: "Yeho is Salvation." It's a combination [merging] of TWO Hebrew words: "Yeho" [Divine Name Var. Pron.] & "salvation." The first "Y" & the final "H" of the second word were eliminated. Nevertheless, the beginning "YE" of the second word is still kind of present in the first word - in the beginning pronunciation of the 3 Letters of the Divine Name. Jews sometimes pronounce Yeshua's name irreverently as: "Yeshu [יֵשוּ]." It’s an acronym for: “May His Name & His Memory Be BLOTTED OUT (Erased).” From: “YIM-MAKH SHEMO VEZIC-RO [יִמַּח שְמוֹ וְזִכרוֹ].”

i still find it utterly blasphemous when people try to make assertions about "the language of God" or something like that. why would God even be tied down by something as lowly as human language?

People who aren't linguists talking authoritatively about any facet of language makes me cringe so hard...Thanks Dan for this.

I wish I'd found your channel earlier, I have a young friend that got caught up with those sort of videos. I tried telling/showing her but she eventually blocked me, I keep praying that something will wake her up from it, it's very cult like where they are right and everyone else is wrong 😢😢

I've been having a hard time with this myself. The thing is, if you ask 20 different people, you'll get 20 different answers. I would like to know the true name of the Creator, i do feel God and lord are just titles, but with so many different opinions even with the experts in ancient languages, they too have different opinions. While ive been chasing this name game b.s. , i have noticed that I feel like i have drifted away from The Most High. Looks like im going to have to learn Aramaic for myself just so I can have an informed opinion of my own.

I wish more Bibles used YHWH whenever it appears in the early manuscripts.

NOBODY ELSE CURRENTLY LIVING IN THIS WORLD KNOWS HOW YHWH's Name is PRONOUNCED! Except the Hebrews themselves! However, One MUST Know WHO to Trust!

I find it interesting that the Arabic word for "He", transliterated into English is "Huwa". If this is preceded with the word "Ya", a vocative particle, as with "Ya Huwa". it becomes O, He! or O, He is! God identified Himself to Moses as "I Am", His relationship to Himself. If we keep in mind our relationship to God, we might say "He is". Thus "Ya Huwa", in Arabic at least, may be closely related to both the pronunciation and meaning of YHWH, "O, He is!", a praise of God. In Persian, which lacks the Arabic W and uses V in its place, it becomes "Ya Hova".

The Lew White teachings could keep you busy for a while. Maybe add Alexander Hislop and your debunking won't be complete until the second coming.

Doper converts

There was no "v" in the original ancient Hebrew it was a later addition, and it became interchangeable with "w." Originaly it was a "w" so "wah" would be more correct then "vah."

See, I knew we should have stuck with Yahoo over Google and this proves it.

lo hace ver tan facil dan!!!!!!! claro como el agua

Yeah me too..I'm good

Native hebrew speaker here, and we pronounce it "yehova".

Is there even any way to actually know how the name was pronounced in the time period that the Torah claims the events of say, for instance, the Exodus occured? It seems to me we wouldn't have any sure way of knowing, but I'm no expert.

I’d love to hear Dans take on Nehemia Gordon’s work on the tetragrammaton

Several years ago when I briefly delved into the Hebrew Roots movement, this shit was rampant. Everyone getting their panties in a knot trying to properly pronounce the name of the Israelite god.

No one in any ancient manuscript of new testament mention yahusha its YESHUA

“The silver 'British Museum drachm', known since 1814, but with unknown provenance. It was probably struck by the Persian administration in Israel in the first quarter of the 4th century BCE. The coin shows a deity seated on a winged wheel, often interpreted as a depiction of Yahweh (Yahu).”

What do you think of Larry Gonick's humorous suggestion in "The Cartoon History of the Universe" that it could be "Yahu Wahu?"

Here we go again, so let’s do this proper, if we are talking specifically about “this” god and not a former Mesopotamian god Enki (Sumer), Ea (Akkadian), Ia (Ebla) or Yah(phonecia) but a different god, we can declare this god by name as one literally defined by the Egyptian vernacular protosiniatic. Which is consistent with a SW Arabian, Araravah/Seir, Sin identity origins. We cannot however define its origins, just what the letters encoded in this ancient language. Yod (middle Egyptian hieroglyph = pair of reeds) --> Yad “hand” in protosiniatic This letter is not in old Egyptian and may have been imported with the Hyksos. Yad then becomes the phonecian 𐤉, which depending on where you stand it could take on many meanings. heh / Hillul means window or jubilation. 𐤄 in phonecian, in the Egyptian heiroglyphics it appears to be derived from the merger of “hayt” (thread symbol) and Hillul (jubilation, man with upstretched arms) and “hasir” (court symbol) In phonencian the hayt and hasir were merged to form “heth” (fence). Whereas the hillul is replaced by “he” (window), these three forms were used to express the uvular, glottal and pharyngeal h sound. So the first part of the name might mean something like singing reeds or ecstatic hands. I happen to think it means Ia or Enki. I think the use of the jubilation symbol was important for the original name. The Vav symbol. The letter likely originated with an Egyptian hieroglyph which represented the word mace (transliterated as ḥḏ, hedj), it was symbolic of power. But the Egyptian Wau also means baby quail. One of the ways of representing the quail was by a coiled “hook”. By the time it reaches Hebrew it means “hook” as it means to day. What is the meaning of this mace/hook/power jubilation/thread/fence. And so I think the jubilation term is repeated because it is insistent on the first used in YH. In this case exalted. So if I am correct about the first it means exalted wisdom or craftiness. Yahweh was a trickster god like Enki and also an all knowing god (except when he didn’t know, like Genesis 2). I think the second term is Exalted power/strength, it could however be an exaltation of another god from Arabia, wadd. “There is evidence from Minaean inscriptions of the presence of Levites in the temple of Wadd who according to some scholars were either as priests or cult servants who could later be promoted to higher positions.” “lt was the statue of a huge man, as big as the largest of human beings, covered with two robes, clothed with the one and cloaked with the other, carrying a sword on his waist and a bow on his shoulder, and holding in [one] hand a spear to which was attached a standard, and [in the other] a quiver full of arrows.” The god emerged with Sa’ani separatist in the 6th century and may have been a remnant of a god of people captured and enslaved by Sa’ani. The people who followed Wadd were major traders “Inscriptions found in Qanāwu mention a number of major caravan stations along the trading route, including Yathrib (Medina) and Gaza” and so they fit the bill of nomadic peoples related to those who gave rise to Yahweh. The war god quality fits wadd, well, with Yah taking the craftsman/wisdom role. Yahweh

Dan, I know using Strong's concordance is a no-no for the serious scholar. Which one would you recommend?

Words in ANCIENT Hebrew had NO vowels. Don't get me started on this. Literally NOBODY has a clue as to God's personal name.

I kept expecting him to explain, at one point or another, _why_ he thinks it's so important to get the pronunciation of the divine name just right 🤔

Larry Gonick suggested the pronunciation “Yahoo Wahoo”. I’m sticking with that.

This guy must be fun at parties.

A lot of people call him YAHWEH, YAHVEH and neither one is not his name. It's YAHUAH Hebrews never use the letters W or V just like YAHUAH Son it's not Yashua or no Yeshua it's YAHUSHA HaMessiyah

Yahweh and Yahshwa

"So, this is nonsense" 😅

What about the Elijah and others that have the yahu at the end of their names? Thats a short for of his nane

Baruk haba beshem Yahuah

Wonder if this guy thinks yahoo mail is the divine email server 😂

1:04 יהוה במקור הוא כן אל פגני. ערוך: נראה לי שיהוה מגיע ממה שהיום ירדן.

I thought vav's were pronounced as v's when acting as a consonant, not as w's. Is this different in modern vs ancient hebrew?

Anyone using a strong concordances is a novice

It is explained in Kesef Mishneh that the Tetragrammaton is pronounced Ado-nai.

I guess I need to get me a concordinance.

We been fighting against these pseudo linguists claim of waw pronounced uau ... I claim they think it's that bc they dnt understand what a furtive pathach, such as ruach

I actually think "w" should be classified as a vowel if going by actual sound 🔊 mechanics, rather than pointless tradition. You can easily say it continuously and smoothly change tone while saying it alone. On that note, you clearly can say the consonants on their own. They just sound weird. You can tell if you try it.

Really cool how Hebrew shares a similar phonetic system with Arabic

So it is yahuah?

Maybe god shouldn’t have Babeled up our language?

So wrong... The name is actually pronounced "Woohoo!!!", yes, with three exclamation marks, a distinct hebrew trait, obviously refering to the trinity.

This dude pronounces chihuahua as "Chew-HU-AH-HU-AH" unironially.

This poor notebook guy seems so convinced that he's discovered something important - something that will presumably buttress very particular religious beliefs - that he's afraid to present it to actual experts before blasting it out on social media. Or maybe he just has a very gullible following.

This is modern Hebrew he’s talking about there’s no Vavbin paleo hebrew

Nah He not telling the Truth, Paleo Hebrew speaks Aramaic, And Hebrew.

It is actually possible to create a word Yahuah with a hataf-patah (cf. Eloah = God). I'm not suggesting though that this would be a better guess than Yahweh (which is also a guess).

What about Yoda?

Gods one and only son.....does that infer that eleven brothers were cut down. Or that the son may have been Jethros daughter?

I salute Dan’s courage. When I hear nonsense produced with effort by a person who speaks neither Hebrew, nor Aramaic, nor Greek, my head bends and my hand covers my face. I know that in the United States, access to affordable education is almost non-existent. His delusion could be alleviated if he knew how to speak more than English or read books written by serious academics.

Hi Dan. Would it be possible to share how the tetragramaton would be pronounced without saying it? Maybe rhyme or broken up syllables? I know speaking it in full is inappropriate in some groups, thus "adonai", which I can respect. but I'm intensely curious what a solar thinks the word sounded like