Tetragrammaton
Sign in to savethumb|class=skin-invert-image|The Tetragrammaton in Hebrew letters (yod/Y) (he/H) (vav/W) (he/H) The Tetragrammaton is the four-letter Hebrew-language theonym (transliterated as YHWH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four Hebrew letters, written and read from right to left, are yod, he, vav, and he. The name may be derived from a verb that means 'to be', 'to exist', 'to cause to become', or 'to come to pass'.
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The Tetragrammaton is the four-letter Hebrew name of God (YHWH) that appears in the Hebrew Bible, made up of the letters yod, he, vav, and he. It matters as a foundational religious term because the name is central to Jewish and Christian scripture, and scholars believe it may derive from a verb meaning "to be" or "to exist."
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- Four letters
- Etymology
- Vocalisation
- YHWH and Hebrew script
- Yahweh
- Non-biblical texts
- Texts with Tetragrammaton
- Texts with similar theonyms
- Magical papyri
- Vernacular evidence
- Hebrew Bible
- Masoretic Text
- Leningrad Codex
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Septuagint
- Manuscripts of the Septuagint and later Greek renderings
- Patristic writings
- Peshitta
- Vulgate
- Usage in religious traditions
- Judaism
- Spoken prohibitions
- Written prohibitions
- Kabbalah
- Samaritans
- Christianity
- Christian translations
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Catholicism
- Lutheranism and Anglicanism
- Translations preserving Hebraic form of Tetragrammaton
- Islam
- Usage in art
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
thumb|class=skin-invert-image|The Tetragrammaton in Hebrew letters (yod/Y) (he/H) (vav/W) (he/H) The Tetragrammaton is the four-letter Hebrew-language theonym (transliterated as YHWH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four Hebrew letters, written and read from right to left, are yod, he, vav, and he. The name may be derived from a verb that means 'to be', 'to exist', 'to cause to become', or 'to come to pass'.
While there is no consensus about the structure and etymology of the name, the form Yahweh (with niqqud: ) is now almost universally accepted among Biblical and Semitic linguistics scholars, though the vocalization Jehovah continues to have wide usage, especially in Christian traditions. In modernity, Christianity is the only Abrahamic religion in which the Tetragrammaton is freely and openly pronounced.