What Is God's Name ?

Common Sense Commentary:

The Bible ascribes dozens of titles to the God and Creator of the universe: but what is His name? His name is translated "LORD" (all caps) in the Old Testament Hebrew, and is used several thousand times. another Hebrew word translated "lord" (lower case) is "adon" and simply means sir, owner or master (boss) about 200 times. Historically, people have used titles rather than names when speaking to or about those in authority. A third Hebrew word translated "Lord" Heb. Adonia (capitalized) and means "my owner" or "my master", and is used about 400 times. But God's name, "LORD" (all caps), is translated several thousand times from what is known as the "Tetragrammaton", and means "four letters". The four letters are YHVH or JHVH and they both mean, "HE WHO IS". The Tetragrammaton's YHVH and JHVH are obviously unpronounceable, but are theonyms of the name of God. When God Himself uses His name, He does not, of course, say, "HE WHO IS". That is in the third person, which would be how we would speak of Him to another person. "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is ...." Heb.11:6. In our prayers, we would speak directly to God, in the second person, and say, "LORD, YOU ARE". But God would say, of Himself, "I AM". And that is exactly what He told Moses His name is, in Exodus 3:13-15. God had spoken to Moses out of the burning bush and told him to go tell Pharaoh to "Let my people, Israel,  go free". Moses was wanted for murder in Egypt and his kinsmen, Israel, were slaves to Egypt's Pharaoh, and Moses knew neither would believe him when he complicated their lives and angered Pharaoh. So he answered God..... "And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT (WHO) I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD (YHVH) God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." Exodus 3:13-15.  So God's name is "I AM", "YOU ARE", "HE IS".

To make YHVH / JHVH pronounceable, three vowels were taken from other titles of God, Elohim and Adonai and placed in the three spaces between each of the four letters to make them pronounceable and therefore transliterated YHVH to YEHOVAH and JHVH to JEHOVAH. Both are in the third person of "I AM" .... "HE WHO IS". LORD, in all caps, is almost always used in conjunction with "God", thus, "LORD God" or "HE WHO IS... God."

Jesus, like God, and as God the Son, also said, of Himself,
".... Before Abraham was, I am." John 8:58. He also said..... 

"I am come in my Father's name...." Jn.5:43. 

"I am the bread of life ...." Jn.6:48.

"I am the light of the world...." Jn.8:12.

"I am from above...." Jn.8:23.

"I am he ...." Jn.8:24.

"I am the door of the sheep." Jn.10:7.

"I am the good shepherd ...." Jn.10:11.

"I am the Son of God ...." Jn.10:36.

"I am the resurrection ...." Jn.11:25.

"I am the way, the truth, and the life ...." Jn.14:6.

"I am the true vine ...." Jn.15:5.

"As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he,
they went backward and fell on the ground." Jn.18:6. RB