tetragrammaton

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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 Tetragrammatons are written out in such a way that the names of single letters are inscribed.”

2. isim Alternative letter-case form of Tetragrammaton.

   “Written vertically from top to bottom, the JHVH tetragrammaton stands for the human body, the image of God. The other three tetragrammatons are secondary, being ‘by-names’ of God, three of the 72 ‘explicatory names’ known as ‘Shem ha-mephorash’ or ‘Shemaham-phorash’.”