Psalm 83:18, How do you say Jehovah?

That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

//How do you pronounce the name of God? Most scholars sneer at the common pronunciation of "Jehovah" and opt instead for "Yahweh." Why?

It's a long story. It helps to understand that the name of God (or any god) in antiquity is sacred. It dare not be spoken aloud. It helps also to understand that ancient Hebrew did not include vowels. Thus we have only YHWH in the written record, and the tradition that it should never be spoken out loud. Readers of scripture would actually substitute the word Adonai, meaning "my Lord," when reading. Small wonder that today we no longer know how to pronounce God’s name.

Here's part of the problem. Maybe you've heard of the Masoretic Text, the authoritative Hebrew text of the Old Testament used between the 7th and 10th centuries. When the Masoretes transcribed the original Hebrew, they went back and added vowels to the consonants. However, they had a conundrum. If they put the correct vowels in place for YHWH, people would pronounce the name of God; a sin to be avoided at all costs. So, as the story goes (and it is probably true), they took the vowels from the word Adonai and inserted them into YHWH. That way, if you tried to pronounce God's name, you would be wrong. Adding these vowels produced the English word Jehovah.

So how do you pronounce the name of God? Well, we don't know for sure, but the one thing we do suspect is that it could be anything but Jehovah.