YAHWEH The name, Yahweh (or Yahweh Elohim occuring 582 times in the Hebrew) is translated LORD (all CAPS) in  the English Bible, and is the personal name of God, unique among all the names of God. This is a proper name built on the word for “I AM” and reminds us each time this name is used that God absolutely IS. God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.  This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you’.” (Exodus 3:14)  In this encounter, God identified Himself as the “Self-Existent One”    who never had a beginning, and will never end. God simply IS and is all that WAS, eternally. In the next verse, God also said to Moses,         “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you. This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.”  Exodus 3:15 Here below you can open and read the full third chapter (Exodus) context and account of this first, miraculous encounter Moses had with Yahweh. Moses and the Burning Bush