{"id":4139,"date":"2013-12-18T08:11:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2014-08-23T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:21:04","slug":"his-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/18\/his-name\/","title":{"rendered":"His Name Is to Be Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exodus 3:15, <em>This is my name.<\/em><\/strong> Here\u00a0Elohim states that YHVH is the name Moses was to use when referring to I AM THAT I AM. Both the former and latter are forms of the Hebrew verb <i>hayah<\/i> meaning \u201cto be.\u201d YHVH instructed that <i>YHVH <\/i>was to be his memorial name forever. In other words, humans were to use <i>YHVH <\/i>to remember him by. There is no indication here that it was YHVH\u2019s intention that his name was to be forgotten or hidden through euphemisation. The word <i>memorial <\/i>is the Hebrew word <i>zeker <\/i>(<i>Strong\u2019s<\/i> H2143) and means \u201cremembrance, memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/18\/his-name\/burning-bush-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4140\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4140\" alt=\"burning bush\" src=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/burning-bush-300x223.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/burning-bush-300x223.gif 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/burning-bush-402x300.gif 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It must be noted here that we don\u2019t refer to YHVH as I Am, for were we to do so it would be necessary to say \u201cI Am,\u201d and in all reality, we aren\u2019t the I Am, but YHVH is the I Am. 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