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TETRAGRAMMATON,1 or Name of four Letters. ‘Tis thus the Name Jehovah is often called, which the Hebrews, out of Respect, never pronounce. Instead of it they say Adonai, or Elohim: and when they have occasion to mention this sacred Name, they call it Shem-hamphorash, that is to say, The Name explain’d. The Greeks chuse rather to say Tetragrammaton, or Name of four Letters, which are Jod, He, Vau, He.2
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