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One {{Infobox_Contents |topic_name = Adonai |subtopics = Other [[Names of the names for God]] - [[GodElohim]] is '''Adonai''', which is Hebrew for "Lord" (Hebrew: דֹנָי). Formally, this is a plural ("Lords"), but the plural is usually construed as a respectful, and not a syntactic plural. The singular form is ''Adoni'' ("lord"). This was used by the Phoenicians for the pagan god Tammuz and is the origin of the Greek name ''Adonis''. [[JewYahweh]]s only use the singular to refer to a distinguished person.|opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} |}}

Some suggest that One of the names for [[God]] in [[Biblical Hebrew|ancient Hebrew]] in the [[Old Testament]]) is '''Adonai'''. In Hebrew this word means "Lord" (Hebrew: דֹנָי). Grammatically "adonai" is plural ("AdonaiLords" and other names of God may be written ) but is used in the plural form to point out that this one God embodies all of singular sense. The word (in the many gods that were worshipped singular) was also used by the ancestors Phoenicians for the pagan god [[Tammuz]] and is the origin of the Greek name ''Adonis''. [[Ancient Israel|IsraelitesJew]] and concurrently by s only used the surrounding peoplessingular to refer to a distinguished person.

Since pronouncing God's personal name [[Yahweh|YHWH]] is has been considered sinful wrong by the many Jews, they use ''Adonai'' instead of Yahweh in [[prayer]]s and the reading of the [[Bible|Scripture]]sScriptures. When the Masoretes added vowel pointings to the text of the [[Old Testament|Hebrew Bible]] in the first century A.D., they gave the word YHWH the vowels of ''Adonai'', to remind the reader to say ''Adonai'' instead. Thus the word Yahweh read as Jehovah (Yehowah)

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