TETRAGRAMMATON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Four Hebrew letters usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh) or JHVH (Jehovah) signifying the Hebrew name for God which the Jews regarded as too holy to pronounce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Tetragrammaton" is a kind of...):

tetragram (a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system)

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