TETRAGRAMMATON
Gr.: “four letters.”
Technical term by which the ineffable name of the Deity in Hebrew is designated: YHWH. The pronunciation of this term is Yahweh, with the “axes” aspirated.
The term “Jehovah” comes from the fusion of the consonants of the tetragrammaton with the vowels of “Adonai” (Heb.: “my Lord”), which was read when in the Heb. text. YHWH appeared