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📚 noun • entry_id 15809

Tetragrammaton

Meanings (ES + gloss)
tetragrámaton
The word in four Hebrew letters יהוה (in transliteration as YHWH or JHVH) used as the ineffable name of God in the Hebrew Bible, variously rendered as Yahweh or Jehovah.
The Tetragrammatons are written out in such a way that the names of single letters are inscribed.
The starting point of this discussion was Origen’s much-debated comment to Psalm 2:2 concerning the Tetragrammaton in “ancient” Hebrew characters. A very approximate terminus a quo…
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