The Tetragrammaton (Greek meaning word with four letters) is the usual reference to the Hebrew name for God, which is transliterated from the Hebrew as YHWH-- four consonants with no vowels; it is the distinctive personal name of the God of Israel.The popular vocalized form of YHWH is Yahweh. It is called the Tetragrammaton, literally meaning “four letters,” because of this. Hebrew theology is by far the most influential ever, and this is in part due to the Hebrew invention of vowel notation.

It's something that translations unfortunately make unclear, but the Creator's Name changes from Elohim to YHWH Elohim in Genesis 2:4 and the reason for this change is examined in our article on the Chaotic Set Theory. Even though the name YHWH is etymologically difficult to explain, to a Hebrew audience it may have looked very much like He Who Causes "That Which Is" To Be. Where the vast majority of pagan religions venerate society's stratification, Yahwism emphasizes the importance of the individual (hence the idea of YHWH's Christ being Jesus of Nazareth; the quintessential Average Joe). God calls himself “Yahweh” when he first enters into the covenant with Abraham, a subtle promise that he will forever be faithful in keeping his word.

But once you get ahold of the Reality (or rather, the Reality gets ahold of you), the words you use to express your awe will always be limited and seem inadequate. In Hebrew: Jehovah?On account of this, the Masoretes ensured that the Name of the LORD would not be taken in vain by substituting the vowel marks for Adonai and putting them under the letters in the running text (this is called Qere [what is to be read] as opposed to Ketiv [what is to be written]). YHWH is the second creation Name of God. It has been long supposed that YHWH was derived from the verb that is used to make I AM, namely היה (haya), meaning to be or to become, or rather from an older form and rare synonym of haya, namely הוה, hawa, hence y-hawa or yahweh, the proper imperfect of the verb, thus rendering the name either BEING or HE IS. If that is so, the etymology of YHWH is utterly unclear, and therefore subject to much debate. Because it is composed from the four Hebrew letters Yod, Hey, Vav, and Hey, it is also referred to as the "Tetragrammaton," which simply means "the four letters. On the other hand, perhaps the name YHWH means Tom, Dick or Harry in a language that has slipped out of the collective human consciousness and we are left with the echoes of a revelation that was as sincere and confidential as the word abba: daddy. And no, Yahwism is not a religion that appeared to work really well; it's the syntax of science that worked really well which received the name Yahwism. We know beyond doubt that there are Yahwists among us who know far more than any scientist; they don't publish and that's why the general public doesn't know about them, but they are there. For more on this, see our article To Be Is To Do): The verb היה (haya), or its older version הוה (hawa), means to be busy acting out the behavior that defines that which acts.

This power (this theology) contrasted others by use of the vowel notation, using symbols that were already used and until then only represented consonants, namely the letters ו (waw), י (yod) and ה (he). Yahweh: God – The name of God used most often in the Hebrew Bible is YHWH known as a tetragrammaton (four-letter word). One of these names is the famous Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), which actually exists only of vowels. Nouns היה (hayya) and הוה (howa) describe destruction, calamity or ruin.

But the angel of YHWH said to him, "Why do you ask my name, seeing it is incomprehensible?". This may be an inconvenient coincidence, but much more likely reflects the deep insight that the development of defining behavior inevitably requires the falling away of certain rejected behaviors. In Himself, God is beyond all "predications" or attributes of language: He is the Source and Foundation of all possibility of utterance and thus is beyond all definite descriptions.This special Name of God (YHVH) was moreover combined with "The God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" to be God's Name forever, "my memorial unto all generations" (see Exodus 3:15-16).In the traditional Jewish view, YHVH is the Name expressing the mercy and condescension of Almighty God: "The Holy One, Blessed be He, said to those, You want to know my name? When he reveals himself again as “Yahweh” to Moses, it is our reminder that he is unchanging, and we can trust him not to back out or change his mind. This, too, is incorrect (though the construct form "Yah" probably is part of the original pronunciation (e.g., see Psalm 68:4; Isaiah 26:4)). In other words: the whole picture lies in our hearts, and that which we call inspiration or having a hunch, or even simply an idea for a hypothesis, comes straight from our heart of hearts (Deuteronomy 30:14, Jeremiah 31:33, Romans 2:15, Hebrews 10:16). Of all the names of God, the one which occurs most frequently is the Tetragrammaton. Instead, wherever the text called for YHWH, a reader would pronounce the Hebrew word for lord: Adonai. Yahwism, therefore, can be most aptly viewed as a kind of proto-science; it's the syntax of science and focused on reality first and foremost. This name is Yahweh-an alternative transliteration is Jehovah.Yahweh refers to "the self-existent, eternal … But perhaps we have the verb הוה (hawa II) all figured wrong, and הוה (hawa II) is the same as הוה (hawa I), meaning to be or to happen. But at some point in time, people began to believe that the name YHWH was so holy, that normal mortals better not pronounce it. Listed over 6,828 times.