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|strong=H3068 (''Yĕhovah'')
|strong=H3068 (''Yĕhovah'')
}}The '''tetragrammaton''' is a sequence of four Hebrew letters that represent the personal name of God. In English, it is usually given as YHWH. The Masoretic text, the standard modern Hebrew text of the Old Testament, adds vowels to the consonant-only ancient text. It gives the tetragrammaton as ''Yĕhovah''. The King James Version transliterates this as "[[Jehovah]]." The tetragrammaton appears 6,519 times in the Old Testament.
}}The '''tetragrammaton''' is a sequence of four Hebrew letters that represent the personal name of God. In English, it is usually given as YHWH. The Masoretic text, the standard modern Hebrew text of the Old Testament, adds vowels to the consonant-only ancient text. It gives the tetragrammaton as ''Yĕhovah''. The King James Version transliterates this word as "[[Jehovah]]." The tetragrammaton appears 6,519 times in the Old Testament.
The Masoretic text was vowelized in the Middle Ages. Giving the original pronunciation was considered sacrilegious, so the ''Yĕhovah'' spelling intentionally misrepresents the pronunciation. Modern scholars have reconstructed the original pronunciation as "[[Yahweh]]." [[Judaism|Jews]] believe that the Lord's true name is unspeakable until the arrival of the [[messiah]] and the restoration of the [[Temple of Jerusalem|Temple]] in [[Jerusalem]].
The Masoretic text was vowelized in the Middle Ages. Giving the original pronunciation was considered sacrilegious, so the ''Yĕhovah'' spelling intentionally misrepresents the pronunciation. Modern scholars have reconstructed the original pronunciation as "[[Yahweh]]." [[Judaism|Jews]] believe that the Lord's true name is unspeakable until the arrival of the [[messiah]] and the restoration of the [[Temple of Jerusalem|Temple]] in [[Jerusalem]].