Hi, guys. Knew a seminary student once who gave me an interesting bit of info. He had learned in Hebrew class that the word we translate into English as Yahweh or Jehovah (same Hebrew letters) is a form of the verb "To Be"; it is never used except as the Name of God; when the parts are translated it is a phrase -- "always in a state of becoming". When Moses, thinking the Jews won't listen to him (he's raised as an Egyptian prince, not a Jew), asks GOD how he gets their cooperation, God says "Tell them I AM sent you"(KJV). This is one of those places where that form is used. The true name of God is too powerful -- it invokes God's actual presence which could mean a serious case of death, if you weren't clean and straight -- so euphemisms, descriptive terms, were used to indicate to Whom someone, or some literary passage, was referring.

"Always in a state of becoming" be with us all in the New Year.   Tw