New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), “Appendix A5: The Divine Name in the Christian Greek Scriptures”
“The New World Bible Translation Committee determined that there is compelling evidence that the Tetragrammaton did appear in the original Greek manuscripts.”
The appendix states that the New World Translation “uses the name Jehovah a total of 237 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures” and sets out the organisation’s seven-point case: that surviving Greek manuscripts are copies made at least two centuries after the originals; that first-century Greek Septuagint fragments carry the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew characters; that Jesus spoke of his Father’s name; that “the sudden disappearance of Jehovah’s name from the text would seem inconsistent”; that “Hallelujah” preserves the short form; that the Tosefta refers to “the Divine Name” in Christian writings; that The Anchor Bible Dictionary and George Howard allow the possibility; and that earlier translators such as Heinfetter (1863), Benjamin Wilson (1864), Stevens (1898), Rutherford (1900) and Wand (1946) used the name. It closes: “Without a doubt, there is a clear basis for restoring the divine name, Jehovah, in the Christian Greek Scriptures.”
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Confidence note. Full appendix, including the list of over 300 languages, fetched from JW.org and read on 19 September 2026; quotations confirmed from the page text.
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Notes. Appendix A5 nowhere claims that a Greek New Testament manuscript containing the Tetragrammaton has been found; the argument is one of inference from the Septuagint evidence and from later Hebrew versions.
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