tetragrammaton in English

noun
1
the Hebrew name of God transliterated in four letters as YHWH or JHVH and articulated as Yahweh or Jehovah.
The most frequently used names in the Bible are the Tetragrammaton , and Elohim.

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1. After five hours in a stuffy basement, I found a saucer bearing Jehovah’s name, the Tetragrammaton.

2. For example, the Hexapla retained God’s name in its original four-letter Hebrew form, called the Tetragrammaton.

3. When archaeologists discovered that temple, they found an Egyptian hieroglyphic that appears to show the Hebrew Tetragrammaton —YHWH, or Jehovah.

4. Die engravers represented God’s name, Jehovah, by the four Hebrew letters known as the Tetragrammaton. These are transliterated into English as JHVH or YHWH.

5. However, in 1934 representatives of the Nazi Party decided that the Tetragrammaton was “not compatible with current ideology” and hence should be painted over.

6. What does Adonist mean? One who maintains that the vowel points of the Tetragrammaton translated "Jehovah" are the vowel points that belong to t

7. Adonist (plural Adonists) One who maintains that the vowel points of the Tetragrammaton translated "Jehovah" are the vowel points that belong to the word Adonai

8. The angel’s words about the throne of David are an allusion to the promise at 2Sa 7:12, 13, 16, where Jehovah is speaking to David through the prophet Nathan and where the Tetragrammaton occurs several times in the immediate context.

9. HAllelujah is an Anglicization of Hebrew for "praise the Lord", where hallel is the verb "to praise, and "Lord" represents the tetragrammaton name of God, whose initial syllable is something like "yah"

10. Says one source: “So great was the desire to preserve intact the sacred name of God that Hellenistic Jews, when translating the Hebrew Bible into Greek, copied the actual letters of the Tetragrammaton in the midst of the Greek text.”

11. “All Greek translations of the Bible made by Jews for Jews in pre-Christian times must have used, as the name of God, the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew characters and not [Kyrios], or abbreviations of it, such as we find in the Christian” copies of the Septuagint.

12. Adonai a-do'-ni, ad-o-na'-i ('adhonay): A Divine name, translated "Lord," and signifying, from its derivation, "sovereignty." Its vowels are found in the Massoretic Text with the unpronounceable tetragrammaton YHWH; and when the Hebrew reader came to these letters, he always substituted in pronunciation the word " 'adhonay."