NOUN
- 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
How To Use Tetragrammaton In A Sentence
- In the Cabala, the Quaternical system is the Tetragrammaton, the four-letter name of God, commonly pronounced Yahweh or Jehovah.
- In the patristic period, the Tetragrammaton played little role in Christian theology, largely because of linguistic obstacles.
- Even the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) which is called God's "proper name" only denotes His highest emanation in creation.
- Similarly, it is customary to write Yehudah with an aleph rather than a final hey, lest one accidentally leave out the letter dalet and write the Tetragrammaton.
- The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath. Ulysses
- Although God Himself is absolutely unknowable and unnameable, the Tetragrammaton is His highest emanation in creation.
- The ineffable name, the tetragrammaton, the shem hamphorash, -- for it is known by all these appellations, -- consists of four letters, _yod, heh, vau_, and _heh_, forming the word הוהי. The Symbolism of Freemasonry