Tetragrammaton
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The Tetragrammaton is the four-letter Hebrew-language theonym יהוה, the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four Hebrew letters, written and read from right to left, are yod, he, vav, and he. The nam
Transcription of the divine name as ΙΑΩ in the 1st-century BCE Septuagint manuscript 4Q120
The Mesha Stele bears a reference (840 BCE) to the Israelite god Yahweh.
YHWH in one of the Lachish letters.
Ιεωα in Col. 15 line 10 (PGM VII 531).
God in Judaism
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In Judaism, God has been conceived in a variety of ways. Traditionally, Judaism holds that God—that is, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the national god of the Israelites—delivered the Israel
Tetragrammaton
…aloud proposed transcription forms such as Yahweh or Yehovah; instead they replace it with a different term, whether in addressing or referring to the God of Israel. Common substitutions in Hebrew are אֲדֹנָי (Adonai, lit. transl. 'My Lords', pluralis majestatis taken as singular) or אֱלֹהִים (Elohim, literally…
The Tetragrammaton (YHWH), the main Hebrew name of God inscribed on the page of a Sephardic manuscript of the Hebrew Bible (1385)
The mass revelation at Mount Horeb in an illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company, 1907
Seal of Hezekiah, 727 to 698. Winged disk representing God