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What does Tetragrammaton mean?

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Proper noun
  1. The four Hebrew letters יהוה‏ (in transliteration, YHWH or JHVH) used as the ineffable name of God in the Hebrew Bible, variously transliterated as Yahweh or Jehovah.
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In the Cabala, the Quaternical system is the Tetragrammaton, the four-letter name of God, commonly pronounced Yahweh or Jehovah.
Not only are our sources, indicating the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, limited, but we are also hamshackled by certain time constraints.
Depending whom you ask, the rule pertains to any version of the name of God, or only the tetragrammaton, or only the tetragrammaton in Hebrew characters.
In the daily priestly blessing, the Tetragrammaton was vocalized with the vowel points associated with the name Adonai.
That is the Holy Four, the Tetragrammaton of the Kabbalists!
Similarly, it is customary to write Yehudah with an aleph rather than a final hey, lest one accidentally leave out the letter dalet and write the Tetragrammaton.

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