Is "God" His Name? The Word Alahym Is a Title, and the Name Behind It Is Yahuah

Ask someone who the Creator is and most will say "God." They think of it almost like a name. But "God" is not a name, and it is not even a word in the ancient Lashon Qanaʿan language. In the text there are two different things sitting under your English Bible: a title, and a Name. English blurred them into one, and most people never learned the difference.

The word, in the oldest writing we have

Before English, and before the Square Script, it was written in the oldest letters we know of, the Paleo Script. Here it is in all three forms:

What the word actually means

Alahym is a title. It means the Mighty One, the Power, the Supreme One. It describes what He is, the highest power over all. It is built in a form that carries greatness and majesty.

But a title is not a name. "King" is not a name. "Father" is not a name. And Alahym, the Mighty One, is not a name either. The Name, the personal Name He gave, is Yahuah. The text keeps these two separate on purpose: Yahuah is who He is, Alahym is what He is.

What "God" did to it

English printed "God" for Alahym. But "God" is a generic word. It is used for any power a people bow to, any deity of any nation. It carries no meaning from the text, and it points to no one in particular. You can put "god" in front of a hundred different religions and it fits them all.

So two things were lost at once. The meaning of Alahym, the Mighty One, was flattened into a plain, empty label. And it was paired with the removal of the Name Yahuah, which was covered with "the LORD." The result is that a reader ends up with neither the Name nor the meaning, just "the LORD God," two English words hiding both the Name and the title underneath.

Read it in the scrolls

Watch how the text keeps the Name and the title together, and see what English hides.

Barashith (Genesis) 1:1 says: "In the beginning Alahym created the heavens and the earth." The Mighty One created. That is the title doing its work, telling you the Power behind all things.

Dabarim (Deuteronomy) 6:4, the words Yashar’al is told to say, reads: "Hear, O Yashar’al: Yahuah our Alahym, Yahuah is one." Look closely. There is the Name, Yahuah, and there is the title, Alahym, side by side. "Yahuah our Mighty One." Your English Bible prints "the LORD our God," which buries the Name under a title and the title under a generic word. In one short line, both were hidden.

The numbers

Alahym appears around 2,600 times in the Scrolls. The Name Yahuah appears nearly 7,000 times. Between the two of them, they fill the text, the Name and the Mighty One, over and over. And English readers were handed "the LORD" and "God," so across thousands upon thousands of verses, the actual Name and the actual meaning were both kept out of sight.

How this connects to the Turah

Here is the thread. The Turah does not open with a vague "god." It opens with Alahym creating, and then with Yahuah instructing His people. And the first of the Ten Words in the Turah says, "I am Yahuah your Alahym, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim. You shall have no other alahym before Me." There it is, in the Turah itself, the Name and the title together, and the command to hold to Him alone. To keep the Turah, you have to know who gave it: not a generic "god," but Yahuah, the Mighty One, by Name. Restore the title and the Name, and the very first Word of the Turah reads the way it was written.

Let us be honest about what is proven

Proven: Alahym is a title meaning the Mighty One, not a personal name. It appears around 2,600 times. The personal Name, Yahuah, appears nearly 7,000 times, and the text sets them side by side (Dabarim 6:4). English "God" is a generic term that carries none of the meaning and, paired with "the LORD," hides both the title and the Name.

Not overclaimed: Alahym is sometimes used in a broader way for mighty ones or rulers, and "God" as a category word is not by itself a lie. The loss is that a meaningful title was flattened, and it rode along with the covering of the Name.

Now sit with it

"God" is not His Name, and it is not even the meaning. The meaning is Alahym, the Mighty One. The Name is Yahuah. The text says them together, thousands of times, and you were handed two English words that hid them both.

Go read Dabarim 6:4 and see the Name and the title with your own eyes. Then ask the question they never put to you:

If they covered both the Name and its meaning across thousands of verses, do you actually know who you have been calling on, or only what they let you call Him?

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