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Tetragrammaton. The Tetragrammaton in Phoenician (12th century BCE to 150 BCE), Paleo-Hebrew (10th century BCE to 135 CE), and square Hebrew (3rd century BCE to present) scripts. 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 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.
8 lut 2023 · Learn the history of the tetragrammaton and the various ways people have read YHWH, the four letters of God’s name.
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.
22 lut 2024 · The Tetragrammaton is the combination of four Hebrew letters to form the ancient Hebrew name of God, YHWH. This name, the Yahweh meaning, demonstrates God’s self-existence and self-sufficiency and is linked to how God described himself to Moses.
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.
tetragrammaton is י ה,[shem hameyuched] “God’s own name,” or ה ,[shem hamforesh] “the separated, special name peculiar to God,” His proper name as distinct from designations, the name which is generally kept secret and uttered
