Adonai Mitchell - name cracks me up

[The Wiz]

  On 4/17/2024 at 11:01 AM, boyst said:

i honestly don't even know how to pronounce it.

 

is it Ad-on-ay? Adon-aye? A-done-yay? A-done-knee-ya? A-aron?

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I've heard that it is pronounced "uh-don-ee"

[boyst]

  On 4/17/2024 at 4:02 PM, The Wiz said:

I've heard that it is pronounced "uh-don-ee"

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Hey what's his name...

 

 

"Uhhh duhno"

[MikePJ76]

  On 4/17/2024 at 2:23 PM, Mr Info said:

Perhaps Mr. Brimley should have taken his own advice more seriously. 

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Give the guy a break.  He is only 17 in this picture and has plenty of time to get it under control.

[Robert Paulson]

  On 4/17/2024 at 11:18 AM, Dat said:

Hmmm…Now that I think about it, I have called lots of Bills player “Jesus Christ” while watching games over the years.
Then baptize something.

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you are better than me

 

i typically call them:

 

Jesus Effin Christ

[billsbackto81]

I came for the jokes on this thread and left with a degree in Theology. 

[RobbRiddick]

My grandma suffered from a life threatening allergic reaction to citrus fruit. She spent the 70s constantly crossing herself whenever someone said OJ

[Sgt. Ski]

  On 4/17/2024 at 11:01 AM, boyst said:

i honestly don't even know how to pronounce it.

 

is it Ad-on-ay? Adon-aye? A-done-yay? A-done-knee-ya? A-aron?

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a don e

[Rigotz]

Is this funny?

 

I know a lot of Mexicans named Jesus and it never cracks me up.

[BarleyNY]

  On 4/17/2024 at 5:53 PM, RobbRiddick said:

My grandma suffered from a life threatening allergic reaction to citrus fruit. She spent the 70s constantly crossing herself whenever someone said OJ

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It can be deadly

[LABILLBACKER]

  On 4/17/2024 at 5:20 PM, billsbackto81 said:

I came for the jokes on this thread and left with a degree in Theology. 

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We could've had the punt God, receiving God and the Messiah17 all together. The holy trinity....

[The Jokeman]

  On 4/17/2024 at 2:44 PM, 4merper4mer said:

That one is a double whammy.  
 

You pointed out the obvious one but it is also pronounced “Hey, Zeus”.  It’s as if you’re buddies with Zeus and putting yourself on a level with him.  

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[Jay_Fixit]

I guess we’re creating threads about anything these days.

[Buffalo716]

  On 4/17/2024 at 8:40 AM, Dan Darragh said:

Having been raised in the Jewish faith this name never fails to crack me up.  "Adonai" is Hebrew for "God" and religious Jews are so careful of observing the commandment of not taking God's name in vain, they actually won't say this word unless engaged in formal prayer.  In other cases they substitute the word Hashem which means "the name."

 

I can't wait until he catches a Hail Mary pass.

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I thought adonai was "my Lord" 

 

And the Hebrews replaced the word, That can never be uttered..  the true name of the Lord... With Adonai 

 

And used adonai in synagogue ritual

Edited April 17, 2024 by Buffalo716

[Ponch]

  On 4/17/2024 at 11:30 AM, pkwwjd said:

Adonai is actually not the formal name of God that the Jewish faith refuses to say, out of respect for His name. Adonai is actually the name for the Lord that the Jewish faith substitutes for the name revealed to Moses at the burning bush. What we have in the book of Exodus is simply the Hebrew letters that transliterate as YHWH (often anglicized as Yahweh, but we literally aren't sure how it would have been pronounced as the vowel points have been lost to time). Another word, Jehovah, was the rough mixing of the consonants from YHWH (JHVH) and the vowels from Adonai. Jehovah is not a "real" word but has been used as the "name" of the Lord.

 

Y'all are all good using Adonai.

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What do you mean by that? 

[Prospector]

  On 4/17/2024 at 5:20 PM, billsbackto81 said:

I came for the jokes on this thread and left with a degree in Theology. 

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But it's not accredited.

  On 4/17/2024 at 6:56 PM, Buffalo716 said:

I thought adonai was "my Lord" 

 

And the Hebrews replaced the word, That can never be uttered..  the true name of the Lord... With Adonai 

 

And used adonai in synagogue ritual

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I thought way back in the day, they replaced YHWH (YaWeh sounding, meaning Jehovah) with Adonai... but that was back when the Bible was being written, I think.

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[Buffalo716]

  On 4/17/2024 at 7:39 PM, Prospector said:

But it's not accredited.

I thought way back in the day, they replaced YHWH (YaWeh sounding, meaning Jehovah) with Adonai... but that was back when the Bible was being written, I think.

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Possibly been a while... 

 

I know YHWH was the unspeakable name

[BigAl2526]

  On 4/17/2024 at 8:40 AM, Dan Darragh said:

Having been raised in the Jewish faith this name never fails to crack me up.  "Adonai" is Hebrew for "God" and religious Jews are so careful of observing the commandment of not taking God's name in vain, they actually won't say this word unless engaged in formal prayer.  In other cases they substitute the word Hashem which means "the name."

 

I can't wait until he catches a Hail Mary pass.

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I believe that Adonai actually means "lord."  In the Old Testament/Jewish scriptures there are instances where "lord" is used in reference to persons.  The word for God in Hebrew is "El" (singular) or "Elohim" (plural).  Then there is the name for God in Hebrew, which is sometimes called the "tetragram" because it consists of four consonants.  Jews do not say it out of reverence.  Most English translations of the Old Testament do not use the English transliteration of the name of God out of deference to Jewish tradition.  Instead it is rendered in translations as "LORD" all in upper case letters to distinguish it from "Adonai."

  On 4/17/2024 at 11:01 AM, boyst said:

i honestly don't even know how to pronounce it.

 

is it Ad-on-ay? Adon-aye? A-done-yay? A-done-knee-ya? A-aron?

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Number two is probably closest. 

  On 4/17/2024 at 10:48 AM, fasteddie said:

Raised in the Catholic faith, I was always surprised by the Latin American baseball players named Jesus, as in one of the Alou brothers. Just another one of those head scratchers seen throughout the years.

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Actually, the name "Joshua" has the same roots and means the same thing - "God is salvation."

[BigAl2526]

  On 4/17/2024 at 11:30 AM, pkwwjd said:

Adonai is actually not the formal name of God that the Jewish faith refuses to say, out of respect for His name. Adonai is actually the name for the Lord that the Jewish faith substitutes for the name revealed to Moses at the burning bush. What we have in the book of Exodus is simply the Hebrew letters that transliterate as YHWH (often anglicized as Yahweh, but we literally aren't sure how it would have been pronounced as the vowel points have been lost to time). Another word, Jehovah, was the rough mixing of the consonants from YHWH (JHVH) and the vowels from Adonai. Jehovah is not a "real" word but has been used as the "name" of the Lord.

 

Y'all are all good using Adonai.

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I agree with most of this.  I think "Jehovah" comes from the fact that "yhwh" got translated to Greek in the Septuagint and then from Greek to English.  the intermediate language resulted in its corruption, but enough people use it that I don't think you can dismiss it as a word.  After all it is frequent usage that results in and arrangement of letters gaining recognition as a word.

[Starr Almighty]

  On 4/17/2024 at 2:44 PM, 4merper4mer said:

That one is a double whammy.  
 

You pointed out the obvious one but it is also pronounced “Hey, Zeus”.  It’s as if you’re buddies with Zeus and putting yourself on a level with him.  

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It's actually not pronounced like that that's an English thing like Jor-Hay for Jorge.

 

 

[TheyCallMeAndy]

Technically, isn’t the pronunciation/translation (or something) of the first name Jesus actually “Yeshua” or basically Joshua? 

Edited April 17, 2024 by TheyCallMeAndy