Tetragrammaton

See also: tetragrammaton

English

Tetragrammaton written in Phoenician, Aramaic, and Hebrew scripts.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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”).

Proper noun

Tetragrammaton

1. The four Hebrew letters יהוה (in transliteration, YHWH or JHVH) used as the ineffable name of God in the Hebrew Bible, variously transliterated as Yahweh or Jehovah.

Translations

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 四字母詞／四字母词 (sìzìmǔcí), 四字母词 (sìzìmǔcí), 耶和華／耶和华 (zh) (Yēhéhuá), 耶和华 (zh) (Yēhéhuá)

• Finnish: tetragrammi
• French: tétragramme (fr) m
• German: Tetragramm n, Tetragrammaton n
• Greek: τετραγράμματο (el) n (tetragrámmato)

  Ancient:

• Hebrew: הַשֵּׁם הַמְפוֹרָשׁ m (haššēm hamp̄ōrāš, literally “the explicit name”)
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• Hungarian: tetragrammaton
• Indonesian: Tetragrammaton
• Italian: tetragramma (it) m
• Japanese: テトラグラマトン (tetoraguramaton)
• Latin: tetragrammaton n, Tetragrammaton n
• Polish: tetragram m
• Portuguese: tetragrama m
• Russian: тетраграммато́н (ru) m (tetragrammatón)
• Spanish: tetragrámaton (es) m