

Transcription of the divine name as ΙΑΩ in the 1st-century BCE Septuagint manuscript 4Q120 Modern scholarly consensus, however, considers Ehye ašer ehye to be a folk etymology a later theological gloss invented at a time when the original meaning of the Tetragrammaton had been forgotten. To rectify this, some scholars proposed that the Tetragrammaton represents a substitution of the medial y for w, an occasionally attested practice in Biblical Hebrew as both letters represented matres lectionis others proposed that the Tetragrammaton derived instead from the triconsonantal root הוה ( h-w-h), "to be, constitute", with the final form eliciting similar translations as those derived from h-y-h. although this would elicit the form Y-H-Y-H (יהיה), not Y-H-W-H. This would frame Y-H-W-H as a derivation from the Hebrew triconsonantal root היה ( h-y-h), "to be, become, come to pass", with a third person masculine y- prefix, equivalent to English "he", thereby affording translations as "he who causes to exist", "he who is", etc. Historically, scholars have considered the name to be related to the formula Ehye ašer ehye (" I Am that I Am"), the name of God revealed to Moses in Exodus 3:14. The Tetragrammaton is not attested other than among the Israelites, and seems not to have any plausible etymology. (or often a silent letter at the end of a word) , or placeholder for "O"/"U" vowel (see mater lectionis) The letters, properly written and read from right to left (in Biblical Hebrew), are:


The Tetragrammaton ( / ˌ t ɛ t r ə ˈ ɡ r æ m ə t ɒ n/ from Ancient Greek τετραγράμματον tetragrámmaton ' four letters'), or Tetragram, is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה (transliterated as YHWH), the name of God in Judaism and Christianity. The Tetragrammaton in Phoenician (12th century BCE to 150 BCE), Paleo-Hebrew (10th century BCE to 135 CE), and square Hebrew (3rd century BCE to present) scripts
