Understanding Languages 9

The ancient Israelites believed that to mention or to speak the name of YHWH was blasphemous and punishable by death, the name was never spoken or used in its full form.

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But, the word does appear in several standardized forms of the word YHWH as: ja, ya, yo and yahu.

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The other formed mentioned above is El and such use of El is found in many names given by parents who were inspired of the holyspirit, by angels, or directly from the mouth of God, or the Father.

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Such use was to sanctify the receiver of the name for or to God.

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Such names among the gentile is given because it sounds "neat" or it is "cool".

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That is not only a loss of meaning, if intended for a godly purpose, or the meaning is lost in the translation as it is written in English.

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Before I move further to discuss names and their meanings, I desire to shed additional light on the very topic above to demonstrate changes that occur when a dominate society who does not believe in God or from a theological standpoint, God is not pivotal or central to their lives, and the core value is manifested in how names might be viewed.

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In the early times of the gentiles church, prior to the deaths of all the apostles, at Caesarea and in Rome, Christians were being persecuted and many brought before judges because they had renounced their birth names.

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Many changed their names to names like Jeremiah, Elijah, Matthew, Paul, and many others, to show their devotion to God along with other saints.

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With the Navajo people in particular, though similar occurrences happened among all Native tribes on the land of promise with the coming and subjugation by the gentile people, names were likewise changed to humanize Indians to become Christians with a change of names.

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For example, the name Aatsidii Aaskii Biye might have been changed to John Smith, because the naming party in a United States fort might have been called John and he renames "Aatsidii"- "John"; then in the renaming effort of Navajos to spiritually save them, all are given new names after the names of officers in the fort, then through the name file of soldiers in the fort.

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Then the gentile soldiers might have named Navajos by the names of United States presidents; then the names from the Bible, the Old Testament and then the New Testament, were used; other names were given from the names of known gentiles like Julius Cesar, for example; and if they ran out of names, then last names became first or first names became last.

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Navajo language is understood from left to right and Hebrew is read in the same manner from left to right. Biye is translated in Navajo meaning the following:

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"e" means "the one that", the "y" means "godly son", and the "i" means "the one that", and "B" means belonging to him, or a literal translation is: "the one that is the godly son the one that belongs to him" and the equivalent meaning in English is "his son".

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Aashkii is translated in Navajo meaning the following: "ii" means "one that is (or similar to an English gerund – "er"), "h" signifies eternal or a completeness, "s" and the "h" together means that something is connected together, and the "aa" means motion or movement.

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Thus, the word aashkii means literally translated: "by movement or motion, something or someone is connected, by an eternal completeness, the one that is, or in English the word equivalent is "boy".

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The word aatsidii is translated in Navajo meaning the following: "ii" means "one that is", "d" means among or the red rocks, "tsi" means the sound, and the "aa" means motion or movement.

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Thus, the word "aatsidii" means literally translated: "movement or motion, among the red rocks, the sound, one that is, or in English the word equivalent is "silversmith".

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In accord with the English translation of scripture, and the use of names as herein above described, the names might have had variation equivalents but not a true and literal translation from Navajo to English:

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For example, John Smith, John Silver, John Silversmith, John Etsitty (Aatsidii written by sound), Etsitty Smith, Etsitty Silver, John Atcitty, John Begay (Biyi written by sound), Atcitty Begay, Sonny Begay, Sonny Smith, Sonny Etcitty, John Sonny, and so forth.

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Herein is represented thirteen variations of a name that might have been given to a Navajo when he was receiving a name at the fort to receive his food rations with a census number/identification number.

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Such translations are short of a true translation, or possibly names given by a theological standpoint or purpose.

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The names given to prophets in holy writ carry the same equivalents minus the true translation because those translating did not consider a name having any scriptural significance as well as numbers or directions.

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Below, I will provide names as they appear in the translated version of holy writ, but I will provide the meaning of the Hebrew names translated into English names in literal Hebrew form, then I will provide names again with the literal spelling of the names as they would appear in a Hebrew text or writing, with some additional insights.

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This will provide understanding what each literal translation does to enhance meaning of words in holy writ, especially, if the precepts of man prevail to alter names as demonstrated in Navajo, with an abrupt non-concern with exactness of a meaning in the name, i.e., non-concern to convey holy writ in its fulness.

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Symbolic Names in the Holy Writ (a few names)

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The names herein after provided represent by literal meaning the work that was performed by each person, or the meaning of the books, they wrote with their prophesies and work they performed in the name of God.

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Ammon: comes from the various forms of the Egyptian name: Amon, Ahman, or Amen; for example Adam Ondi Ahman.

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In the time of father Lehi, Amon was the God or deity among the Egyptians, and much like the gentile people of America, the gentiles were influencing the Native tribal names into English, such forms of names came to be because of the dominate societal influence.

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A literal federal policy was initiated in the United States Congress to bring the "child of the wilderness" into the mainstream of society; the "Indian" was to be forgotten.

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While the "Blackman" fought for integration, the "Redman" fought for segregation.

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Daniel: is a Hebrew name meaning: "God is my judge". The Book of Daniel concerns the judgment of God upon the Israelite nation wherein the Israelites break the laws of God, and by the words of Daniel, judgment falls upon the Israelites.

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Deseret: In the Egyptian language it means: "Holy Land"; from the Jareditic language of the first man Adam, or in the Adamic language it means: "red land" or the description refers to the land of the first inheritance of Adam, and even Joseph Smith talks of it and calls the land: "land of the red rocks". The name Adam means: "man of the red soil or red rocks".

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The Jaredites named the honey bee "deseret" referring to the land of the red rocks wherein was the land of the Adam, upon expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve took the honey bee to pollinate a newness of life – the letter "d" "means red soil or red rock".

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Elijah: is a Hebrew name meaning: "my God is Jehovah". In 1 Kings 18, Elijah engages in a spiritual battle per se with the priests of Baal to establish that Jehovah is the true God unlike the god of Baal.

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Enos: is a Hebrew name meaning: "the man" or "human being".

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Hagar: is a name that means: "flight".

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Hiram: is a Hebrew name that means: "my brother is exalted"; another form of spelling as herein above described is "Hyrum" in English (this is an example of changes occurring by man that causes theological discrepancies).

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Israel: is a Hebrew name that means: "ruling with God", "soldier of God", "God will rule them".

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Each name if understood properly describes the spiritual role of the covenant people of the Lord, namely the children of Jacob or the children of Israel.

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The house of Israel is not Israel per se. Indeed, in the Joseph Smith translation of the Book of Genesis (JST Genesis 48: 5-11), Israel is referred to as both Manasseh and Ephraim, sons of Joseph, while the whole tribe is called the house of Israel.

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Manasseh and Ephraim is called Israel because the blessing of Jacob or Israel that "the" blessing is given to his son Joseph that shall fall on the heads of Manasseh and Ephraim in the last days (children of the first covenant per the words of Christ in 3 Nephi).

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This supports the writings and prophecies of Ether. (Ether 13)

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Jared: is an Adamic name meaning: "he that descends" or "he that goes down", symbolizing the entering into the eight barges to return to the land of promise and Jared and his entire family literally descending into the great deep.

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Joseph: is a Hebrew name meaning: "he who adds". What a greater name can one receive who added a whole new dimension of the gospel of Christ and the fulfillment of the covenant made to Abraham and the mercy promised father Jacob by being given a commandment to write concerning the returned migration of his posterity to the land of promise;

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The writing concerning his lineal descendants building up the city of the New Jerusalem for the which they returned to the land of promise; and that in the last days, after the time of the gentiles is fulfilled, God shall raise up a seer like unto him, a literal and lineal descendant coming through the loins of Joseph, the son of Lehi, brother to Nephi.

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Jesus: is a name translation from the Greek and English languages translated from Hebrew or Aramaic that literally means: "Yahweh saves [Jehovah a Greek version]" or "Jehoshua" or "Joshua" both Greek versions of the same.

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To the Western Navajos, the word for sun is "yohonaa'e" or "johonaa'e".

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Yahweh is also called in Hebrew "Yeshua" a shortened form of the word "Yehoshua" or "Jehoshua".

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The Greek equivalent is "Iseous" and the Latin form is "Josue" or the English equivalent is "Jesus"

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Moses: in Egyptian means: "son" or "savior", but his birth name is much like a description herein above described for the Navajo people in naming them, his birth name was "Melkiel" that means: "God is my King".

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In Egyptian his name can be further interpreted to mean: "drawn" or "to draw out" of the water by the sister to Pharaoh.

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The names represent stages in the spiritual and physical growth of Moses or Melkiel.

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Mulek: in Hebrew literally means: "little king". In the Book of Mormon a derivative name is given: "melek" meaning the king's land as written in Helaman 6:10.

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Nephi: is an Egyptian name given to Nephi by his father Lehi who spent time in Egypt learning the reformed Egyptian in On. The name Nephi means: "my Lord is God".

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The Egyptians believed that before a person could enter into eternal life, the person was judged of an individual that looked into the acts of that man.

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The god of Egypt who did this was called Nephi or Dnephi, the letter "D" being silent in pronunciation. As we learned previously, the "D" means red soil or red rocks, i.e., Adam, Deseret, or Dnephi; therefore this man Dnephi live in the land of the red rock in Egypt, even where the children of Israel settled when Jacob and his sons sojourned into Egypt.

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The chief city dedicated to him was called "N-ph", and in the writings of Hosea, Jeremiah, and Isaiah, the city is called "Noph", and today it is called Memphis.

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It is inspiring to think that Nephi is given a covenant by the Lord that by his works and action of compliance that he would create means for his descendants, and the gentiles who repent that they should be numbered with the seed of Nephi, to become a covenant people of the Lord in the "land of the red soil or the land of the red rocks", Adam's first land of inheritance.

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Books of Holy Writ Conveying Language

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ISAIAH is written in a Hebrew form: "Yesha 'Yahu" or in its shortened form: "Yeshaiah" that means "Yahweh is Salvation".

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The Greek form is: "Hesaiah" and the Latin form is: "Esais or Isaias".

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JEREMIAH is written in the Hebrew form: "Yirmeyahu" or "Yirmeyah" that literally means: "Yahweh Throws".

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This meaning is that Yirmeyahu lays the foundation or that he establishes.

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In Greek it is written "Hieremias" and in Latin it is written "Jeremias".

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EZEKIEL is written in the Hebrew form: "Yehezke'l" that means: "God Strengthens".

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In Greek his name is spelled "Iezekiel" and in Latin it is spelled "Ezechiel".

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DANIEL is written in the Hebrew form: "Daniye'l" that means: "God is my Judge".

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In Greek it is written "Daniel" that is the basis for both Latin and English.

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HOSEA is derived out of the same Hebrew root word for Joshua and Jesus.

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The name means: "Salvation" but "Joshua and Jesus" includes an additional word in Hebrew meaning: "Yahweh is Salvation".

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The English version of the name is "Hoshea" and in both Latin and Greek it is "Osee".

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JOEL is written in the Hebrew form: "Yo'el" that means: "Yahweh is God". Both Greek and Latin equivalents is "Joel".

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AMOS is derived from the Hebrew root "amas" that means: "To lift a Burden".

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The Greek and Latin translation is the same as English "Amos".

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MICAH is written in the Hebrew form: "Michayahu" that means: "Who is like Yahweh". And sometimes it is shortened to "Michaia".

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The Greek and Latin equivalents are "Michaias and Micha" respectively.

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NAHUM is written in the Hebrew form: "Nahum" that means: "comfort or consolation" and the word is a shortened form of Nehemiah (Comfort of Yahweh).

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The Greek and Latin equivalents are "Naoum and Nahum" respectively.