Tetragrammaton – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
tetragrammaton
n.
(in Greek) meaning "four letters"; four Hebrew letters that are usually written or spelled in the alphabet of another language as YHWH (Yaweh) or JHVH (Jehovah) that form a biblical name of God, Hebrew name for God
Tetragrammaton
The
tetragrammaton (from
Greek , meaning "(consisting) of four letters", and probably pronounced
Yahweh) is the Hebrew
theonym , commonly
transliterated into Latin letters as
YHWH. It is one of the
names of the
national god of the
Israelites used in the
Hebrew Bible. The name may be derived from a verb that means "to be", "to exist", "to cause to become", or "to come to pass".
Tetragrammaton
Noun
1. four Hebrew letters usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh) or JHVH (Jehovah) signifying the Hebrew name for God which the Jews regarded as too holy to pronounce
(hypernym) tetragram
Tetragrammaton
(n.)
The mystic number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Tetragrammaton
[Judaic] Greek: "Four letters". The four letters which compose the name of God. Traditionally the name is so sacred that it is never articulated and the letters YHWH are read in the text as Adonai or Ha-Shem. In English the tetragrammaton is sometimes pronounced as Jehova.
