Tetragrammaton - Alternative names - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia - Tetragrammaton
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Moloch | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw Adonai | ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetragrammaton - Alternative Names
In an analogue to the euphemism HaShem for God, the euphemism HaShem HaMeforash (literally, the explicit name) is sometimes used to refer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetragrammaton - Meaning
According to one Jewish tradition, the Tetragrammaton is related to the causative form, the imperfect state, of the Hebrew verb הוה (h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetragrammaton - Jewish Use Of The Word
In Judaism, pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton is a taboo; it is widely considered forbidden to utter it and the pronunciation of the na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetragrammaton - The Scholarly Reconstructed Pronunciation יַהְוֶה I.e. Yahweh
The vowelized [ i.e. vocalized ] Hebrew spelling of the Tetragrammaton "יַהְוֶה" ( i.e. Yahweh ) (see picture to the right) starte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetragrammaton - Possible Origins
A common suggestion, as articulated by biblical scholar Mark S. Smith in The Origins of Biblical Monotheism, is that the Israelite Yahweh...   » Read the article