tetragrammaton

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From Ancient Greek τετραγράμματον (tetragrámmaton, “four-letter word”), neuter gender of τετραγράμματος (tetragrámmatos, “having four letters”), formed from a combining form of τέτταρες (téttares, “four”) and γράμμα (grámma, “letter”).

noun Tetragrammata · Tetragrammatons · tetragrammaton

Judaism 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 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 for this practice in LXX texts is the first century b. c. e., the date of the Cairo Papyrus Fouad 266, a revision of th

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noun tetragrammata · tetragrammatons

Alternative letter-case form of Tetragrammaton One was to make Elohim the principal predicate,—Hear, O Israel: Jehovah is our God, Jehovah is one; the other was to give the two tetragrammatons different meanings, making one the proper name and the other the appellative, as if one should read, Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is the one Universe-S

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noun the four Hebrew letters י־ה־ו־ה, used as the ineffable name of God

Español	tetragrámaton
日本語	テトラグラマトン tetoraguramaton
中文	四字母詞 /四字母词 sìzìmǔcí, 耶和華 /耶和华 Yēhéhuá
हिन्दी	चतुराक्षर caturākṣar
Português	tetragrama
Français	tétragramme
Deutsch	Tetragramm, Tetragrammaton
Italiano	tetragramma
Ελληνικά	τετραγράμματο tetragrámmato
Русский	тетраграммато́н tetragrammatón

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@misc{tetragrammaton_2026,
  title = {tetragrammaton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tetragrammaton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}