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The Tetragrammaton[note 1] is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה (transliterated as YHWH or YHVH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four letters, written and read from right to left (in Hebrew), are yodh, he, waw, and he. [1] .
8 lut 2023 · The four-letter name of God, YHWH, also known as the tetragrammaton, represented in the Phoenician (top line), Old Hebrew (middle line), and modern square Hebrew (bottom line) scripts. Image credit: Zappaz created the png file, Bryan Derksen created the SVG file, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Tetragrammaton, referred to in rabbinic literature as HaShem (The Name) or Shem Hameforash (The Special Name), is the word used to refer to the four-letter word, yud-hey-vav-hey (יהוה), that is the name for God used in the Hebrew Bible.
27 lip 2024 · The name “Yahweh” or YHWH is called the Tetragrammaton — Greek for “four letters” — because it consists of only four Hebrew letters: yodh, he, waw, and he. That’s why it’s usually transliterated as YHWH.
4 dni temu · Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of ‘YHWH,’ the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus. The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton.
The name of God, often referred to as the Tetragrammaton (a Greek word meaning “four letters”), is written with four Hebrew letters: Yud, Hey, Vav and the letter Hey again. One of the oldest known examples of this name is found in the Temple Ostraca (Note that Hebrew is read from right to left).
The Hebrew letters ‘yud,’ ‘hey,’ ‘vav,’ and ‘hey’ (in English, YHVH) form what is known as the Tetragrammaton, or God’s four-letter name. Given the longstanding Jewish prohibition against speaking God’s name aloud, the word’s original pronunciation is unclear, and it is traditionally not pronounced as written.
