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Why does the Authorized Version use the name "Jehovah" only in four verses?
What’s special about Exodus 6:3, Psalms 83:18, Isaiah 12:2, & Isaiah 26:4? Why does the Authorized Version translate the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in those four verses, but replace it with LORD or ...
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Why did the KJV translators translate יהוה on the extremely rare occasion as IEHOVAH rather than LORD?
The KJV translators almost always translated the Tetragrammaton into English as "LORD" (all capital letters).
For example, in Deut. 6:4:
But, on the rare occasion—extremely rare—they chose instead ...
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Why is the word 'Lord' in all caps in the OT but not in the NT?
My friend asked me the other day, why is the word 'Lord' in all capital letters in the Old Testament but not the New Testament?
I tend to lean towards the fact that the OT was written in Hebrew and ...
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