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His Names are Wonderful: Getting to Know God through His Hebrew Names is unavailable, but you can change that!

What’s in a name? In the Western world, names are often chosen because they’re cute or because parents hope their children might aspire to be like a namesake, perhaps even a Bible figure. Yet, names in the Bible were often chosen to communicate something about a person… especially God’s names. In Hebrew thought, a name did more than identify a person; it revealed their identity. God’s identity...

About the Tetragrammaton and the Use of the Name Adonai The authors have chosen not to use, what is perhaps, the most profound name of God, spelled in Hebrew yud-hey-vav-hey, also called the Tetragrammaton. This is considered to be the holiest name of God, reflecting God’s essence in a way that no other name does. Because of its holiness, this name is no longer even pronounced by Jewish people today. We do not even know for sure how it would be pronounced. But the reason that a meditation on the
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