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TETRAGRAMMATON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)