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Some suggest that "Since pronouncing God's personal name [[Yahweh|YHWH]] has been considered wrong by many Jews, they use ''Adonai" and other names '' instead of God may be written Yahweh in [[prayer]]s and the plural form to point out that this one God embodies all reading of the many gods that were worshipped by Scriptures. When the Masoretes added vowel pointings to the ancestors text of the [[Ancient IsraelOld Testament|IsraelitesHebrew Bible]] and concurrently by in the first century A.D., they gave the word YHWH the vowels of ''Adonai'', to remind the surrounding peoplesreader to say ''Adonai'' instead.Thus the word Yahweh read as Jehovah (Yehowah)
Since pronouncing God's personal name [[Yahweh|YHWH]] is considered sinful by the Jews, they use ''Adonai'' instead in [[prayer]]s and the reading of the [[Bible|Scripture]]s. 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. {{stub}}
Category:Trinity
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One of the names for [[God]] in [[Biblical Hebrew|ancient Hebrew]] in the [[Old Testament]]) is '''Adonai''', which is . In Hebrew for this word means "Lord" (Hebrew: דֹנָי). Formally, this Grammatically "adonai" is a plural ("Lords"), but is used in the plural is usually construed as a respectful, and not a syntactic pluralsingular sense. The word (in the singular form is ''Adoni'' ("lord"). This was also used by the Phoenicians for the pagan god [[Tammuz ]] and is the origin of the Greek name ''Adonis''. [[Jew]]s only use used the singular to refer to a distinguished person.
==See alsoQuotes==* [[Elohim]]* [[Yahweh]]
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