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Meaning of tetragrámaton



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

tetragrámaton
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Elaborating on what the colleagues say I do not know if I will contribute something new but I like the word. The four-letter word whose etymology furoya speaks to us and which we transcribe as Yahweh or Yahweh, lengthening the first vowel, by the Hebrew letters written backwards in that language, the yod (our i or y), the he (our a, e), the waw (our v, f, w, u) and again the he. The Greek texts translated it as kyrios and the Latins as dominus, lord or lord and others with less reverence, master, master, chief.

  



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

Written in four letters. Combination of four letters. By essence the name of God in Hebrew YHWH or also YHVH, which in English can be pronounced as Yahweh or Yahweh. Previously Jehovah or Jehovah was also used.

  

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furoya

Par excellence, the name of God (for the consonants YHWH), "4 letters". It comes from the Greek 964; 949; 964; 961; 945; (tetra, "four") and 947; 961; 945; 956; 956; 945; 964; 949; 953; 959; 957; (grammateion, "writing"); even if you don't have a reference in the Greek manuscripts of the Judeo-Christian holy books.

  










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