text: where did the name jehovah come from?   is the personal name of god.  later, some christian translators mistakenly combined the vowels of “adonay” with the consonants of “yhwh” producing the word “yahowah.” when the scriptures were translated into german during the reformation, the word was transliterated into the german pronunciation, which pronounces “y” as an english “j” and pronounces “w” as an english “v” — or “jahovah.” then in the early 17th century when the scriptures were being translated into english with the help of some of the german translations, the word was again transliterated as “jehovah,” and this this unfortunate accident has carried over into many modern english translations.  hebrew yahweh