The name of God used most often in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton (Hebrew: יהוה). It is frequently anglicized as Jehovah and Yahweh and written in most English editions of the Bible as “the Lord” owing to the Jewish tradition of reading it as (“My Lords”) out of respect.
Rabbinic Judaism describes which are so holy that, once written, should not be erased: YHWH, El (“God”), Elohim (“Gods”), (“God”), El Shaddai, and (“Of Hosts”). Other names are considered mere epithets or titles reflecting different aspects of God, but chumrah sometimes dictates especial care such as the writing of “G–d” instead of “God” in English or saying Ṭēt-Vav ( טו, lit. “9-6”) instead of Yōd-Hē ( יה, lit. “10-5” but also “Jah”) for the number fifteen in Hebrew.
The documentary hypothesis proposes that the Torah was compiled from various original sources, two of which (the Jahwist and the Elohist) are named for their usual names for God (YHWH and Elohim respectively).
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Keywords: Names of God, Tetragrammaton, Tetragramaton, Tetragramatron, God the Hero, God the Strong, God the Warrior, YHWH, Jehovah, Yahweh, El, Jah, Elohim, Eloha, Eloah, Adonai, El Shaddai, Ha Shem, Hashem, El Roi, Elyon, El Elyon, Adoshem, Seven names of God, Deity, Yah
Bible reference(s): Genesis 4:26, Genesis 12:8, Genesis 13:4, Genesis 16:13, Genesis 21:33, Genesis 26:25, Exodus 3:14, Exodus 20:7, Exodus 33:19, Exodus 34:5, Leviticus 24:11, Leviticus 24:16, Deuteronomy 5:11, Deuteronomy 18:5, Deuteronomy 18:7, Deuteronomy 18:22, Deuteronomy 21:5, Deuteronomy 28:10, Deuteronomy 32:3, Joshua 9:9, 1 Samuel 1:3, 1 Samuel 1:11, 1 Samuel 4:4, 1 Samuel 15:2, 1 Samuel 17:45, 1 Samuel 20:42, 2 Samuel 6:2, 2 Samuel 6:18, 2 Samuel 7:8, 2 Samuel 7:26, 2 Samuel 7:27, 1 Kings 3:2, 1 Kings 5:3, 1 Kings 5:5, 1 Kings 8:17, 1 Kings 8:20, 1 Kings 10:1, 1 Kings 18:15, 1 Kings 18:24, 1 Kings 18:32, 1 Kings 22:16, 2 Kings 2:24, 2 Kings 3:14, 2 Kings 5:11, 2 Kings 19:31, 1 Chronicles 11:9, 1 Chronicles 16:2, 1 Chronicles 17:7, 1 Chronicles 17:24, 1 Chronicles 21:19, 1 Chronicles 22:7, 1 Chronicles 22:19, 2 Chronicles 2:1, 2 Chronicles 2:4, 2 Chronicles 6:7, 2 Chronicles 6:10, 2 Chronicles 18:15, 2 Chronicles 33:18, Job 1:21, Psalms 7:17, Psalms 20:7, Psalms 24:10, Psalms 46:7, Psalms 46:11, Psalms 48:8, Psalms 84:1, Psalms 84:3, Psalms 84:12, Psalms 102:15, Psalms 102:21, Psalms 113:1, Psalms 113:2, Psalms 116:4, Psalms 116:13, Psalms 116:17, Psalms 118:10, Psalms 118:11, Psalms 118:12, Psalms 118:26, Psalms 122:4, Psalms 124:8, Psalms 129:8, Psalms 135:1, Psalms 148:5, Psalms 148:13, Proverbs 18:10, Proverbs 30:9, Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 1:24, Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 3:1, Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 5:9, Isaiah 5:16, Isaiah 5:24, Isaiah 6:3, Isaiah 6:5, Isaiah 8:13, Isaiah 8:18, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 9:13, Isaiah 9:19, Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 10:26, Isaiah 10:33, Isaiah 13:4, Isaiah 13:13, Isaiah 14:22, Isaiah 14:23, Isaiah 14:24, Isaiah 14:27, Isaiah 17:3, Isaiah 18:7, Isaiah 19:4, Isaiah 19:12, Isaiah 19:16, Isaiah 19:17, Isaiah 19:18, Isaiah 19:20, Isaiah 19:25, Isaiah 21:10, Isaiah 22:14, Isaiah 22:25, Isaiah 23:9, Isaiah 24:15, Isaiah 24:23, Isaiah 25:6, Isaiah 28:5, Isaiah 28:29, Isaiah 29:6, Isaiah 30:27, Isaiah 31:4, Isaiah 31:5, Isaiah 37:16, Isaiah 37:32, Isaiah 39:5, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:13, Isaiah 47:4, Isaiah 48:1, Isaiah 48:2, Isaiah 50:10, Isaiah 51:15, Isaiah 54:5, Isaiah 56:6, Isaiah 59:19, Isaiah 60:9, Jeremiah 3:17, Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 6:9, Jeremiah 7:3, Jeremiah 7:21, Jeremiah 8:3, Jeremiah 9:7, Jeremiah 9:15, Jeremiah 9:17, Jeremiah 10:16, Jeremiah 11:17, Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 11:21, Jeremiah 11:22, Jeremiah 16:9, Jeremiah 19:3, Jeremiah 19:11, Jeremiah 19:15, Jeremiah 20:12, Jeremiah 23:15, Jeremiah 23:16, Jeremiah 23:36, Jeremiah 25:8, Jeremiah 25:27, Jeremiah 25:28, Jeremiah 25:29, Jeremiah 25:32, Jeremiah 26:9, Jeremiah 26:16, Jeremiah 26:18, Jeremiah 26:20, Jeremiah 27:4, Jeremiah 27:18, Jeremiah 27:19, Jeremiah 27:21, Jeremiah 28:2, Jeremiah 28:14, Jeremiah 29:4, Jeremiah 29:8, Jeremiah 29:17, Jeremiah 29:21, Jeremiah 29:25, Jeremiah 30:8, Jeremiah 31:23, Jeremiah 31:35, Jeremiah 32:14, Jeremiah 32:15, Jeremiah 32:18, Jeremiah 33:11, Jeremiah 33:12, Jeremiah 35:13, Jeremiah 35:18, Jeremiah 35:19, Jeremiah 39:16, Jeremiah 42:15, Jeremiah 42:18, Jeremiah 43:10, Jeremiah 44:2, Jeremiah 44:11, Jeremiah 44:16, Jeremiah 44:25, Jeremiah 46:18, Jeremiah 46:25, Jeremiah 48:1, Jeremiah 48:15, Jeremiah 49:7, Jeremiah 49:26, Jeremiah 49:35, Jeremiah 50:18, Jeremiah 50:33, Jeremiah 50:34, Jeremiah 51:5, Jeremiah 51:14, Jeremiah 51:19, Jeremiah 51:33, Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 51:58, Daniel 4:8, Joel 2:26, Joel 2:32, Amos 6:10, Micah 4:4, Micah 4:5, Micah 5:4, Nahum 2:13, Nahum 3:5, Habakkuk 2:13, Zephaniah 2:9, Zephaniah 2:10, Zephaniah 3:9, Zephaniah 3:12, Haggai 1:2, Haggai 1:5, Haggai 1:7, Haggai 1:9, Haggai 1:14, Haggai 2:4, Haggai 2:6, Haggai 2:7, Haggai 2:8, Haggai 2:9, Haggai 2:11, Haggai 2:23, Zechariah 1:3, Zechariah 1:4, Zechariah 1:6, Zechariah 1:12, Zechariah 1:14, Zechariah 1:16, Zechariah 1:17, Zechariah 2:8, Zechariah 2:9, Zechariah 2:11, Zechariah 3:7, Zechariah 3:9, Zechariah 3:10, Zechariah 4:6, Zechariah 4:9, Zechariah 5:4, Zechariah 6:12, Zechariah 6:15, Zechariah 7:3, Zechariah 7:4, Zechariah 7:9, Zechariah 7:12, Zechariah 7:13, Zechariah 8:1, Zechariah 8:2, Zechariah 8:3, Zechariah 8:4, Zechariah 8:6, Zechariah 8:7, Zechariah 8:9, Zechariah 8:11, Zechariah 8:14, Zechariah 8:18, Zechariah 8:19, Zechariah 8:20, Zechariah 8:21, Zechariah 8:22, Zechariah 8:23, Zechariah 9:15, Zechariah 10:3, Zechariah 12:5, Zechariah 13:2, Zechariah 13:3, Zechariah 13:7, Zechariah 14:16, Zechariah 14:17, Zechariah 14:21, Malachi 1:4, Malachi 1:6, Malachi 1:8, Malachi 1:9, Malachi 1:10, Malachi 1:11, Malachi 1:13, Malachi 1:14, Malachi 2:2, Malachi 2:4, Malachi 2:7, Malachi 2:8, Malachi 2:12, Malachi 2:16, Malachi 3:1, Malachi 3:5, Malachi 3:7, Malachi 3:10, Malachi 3:11, Malachi 3:12, Malachi 3:14, Malachi 3:17, Malachi 4:1, Malachi 4:3
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