This is a personal opinion of mine; and I am NOT a Hebrew language scholar!
When Moses asks God to reveal God’s name, God says (paraphrase): “I AM.” In space-time past, I AM; in your present moment in space-time, I AM; in space-time future,I AM.
Self-existing. Inescapable. Wholly and holy other.Unfathomable.
In my humble opinion, God is not revealing a name but is directing us to recognize the core ‘DNA’ of all his names and attributes. God always IS; alive, life-giving, outside of and in control of time. Yahweh is more a descriptor than a definition or name. God is the verb ‘to be’ so God’s nature/essence/reality is the source of everything, in every place, in every moment of time.
The many names attributed to God are each expressions of this descriptor and all stem from the only God who can claim to ‘be’ the source of space, time, and matter.
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