Tetragrammaton

See also: tetragrammaton

English

Tetragrammaton written in Phoenician, Aramaic, and Hebrew scripts.

Etymology

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”).

Proper noun

Tetragrammaton

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 יהוה used as the ineffable name of God

Aramaic: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄
Chinese:
Mandarin: 四字母詞, 四字母词 (sìzìmǔcí), 耶和華 (zh), 耶和华 (zh) (Yēhéhuá)
Finnish: tetragrammi
French: tétragramme (fr) m
German: Tetragramm n, Tetragrammaton n
Greek: τετραγράμματο (el) n (tetragrámmato)
Ancient: τετραγράμματον n (tetragrámmaton)
Hebrew: הַשֵּׁם הַמְפוֹרָשׁ‎ m (haššēm hamp̄ōrāš, literally “the explicit name”)

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