Also Yahweh: a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH (Yod)(Heh)(Vav)(Heh), it is the distinctive personal name of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
This is the same name ("I AM") that Jesus used when the high priest asked if He was the Christ (Mark 14:61-62).
Of all the names of God, the one which occurs most frequently is the Tetragrammaton, appearing 6,823 times, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia. The Biblia Hebraica and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia texts of the Hebrew Scriptures each contain the Tetragrammaton 6,828 times.
In Judaism, the Tetragrammaton is the ineffable name of God, and is therefore not to be read aloud. In the reading aloud of the scripture or in prayer, it is replaced with Adonai (Lord). Other written forms such as:
י (yod) ו (vav) (YW or Yaw); or י (yod) ה (heh) (YH or Yah)are read in the same way.
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