"The form corresponding to the Greek "Iao" does not occur alone in Hebrew, but only as an element in such proper names as Jesaiah ("Yesha'yahu"), Zedekiah ("Ẓidḳiyahu"), and Jehonathan. According to Delitzsch ("Wo Lag das Paradies?" 1881), this form was the original one, and was expanded into ; but since names of divinities are slow in disappearing, it would be strange if the primitive form had not been retained once in the Bible. ... "Yahu" was in fact used in magic, as is clear from the "Sefer Yeẓirah," which shows many traces of Gnosticism; in the cosmology of this work the permutation of the letters furnishes the instruments of the Creation."
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Trigrammaton
The Trigrammaton (Hebrew: ) is a three-letter used in some editions of the . It occurs in the 4Q120 manuscript, as well as in the Sefer Yetzirah. It may be transliterated into English as YHW"In addition to the tetragrammaton Yhwh, the Masoretic vocalization of which goes back to the substitute 'Lord', there are numerous attestations of a short form Yhw, which is found particularly in theophoric proper names—that is, names constructed with an element derived from the name of the god of Israel, su
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