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TETRAGRAMMATON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tetragrammaton mean? 

TETRAGRAMMATON (noun)
  The noun TETRAGRAMMATON has 1 sense:

1. 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 pronounceplay

  Familiarity information: TETRAGRAMMATON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TETRAGRAMMATON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Tetragrammaton" is a kind of...):

tetragram (a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system)


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