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Tetragrammaton

noun
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 pronounce.





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"Tetragrammaton" Quotes from Famous Books



... Manifested Deity, represent the Male and the Female, the Active and the Passive in Equilibrium, and the VAV completes the Trinity and the Triliteral Name [Hebrew: יהו], the Divine Triangle, which with the repetition of the He becomes the Tetragrammaton. ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... former husband of the defunct had used to exorcise a spirit that plagued him. In case any of my readers can afford bullion enough, and would like to drive away any such visitor, let them get such a plate and have engraved round the edge of one side, "Vicit Leo de tribus Judae tetragrammaton [cross]." Inside this engrave a "holy lamb." Round the edge of the other side engrave "Annaphel" and three crosses, thus: [cross] [cross] [cross]; and in the middle, "Sanctus Petrus ...
— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum


Words linked to "Tetragrammaton" :   tetragram


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