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The general halachic opinion is that this only applies to the sacred Hebrew names of God, not to other euphemistic references; there is a dispute as to whether the word "God" in English or other languages may be erased or whether Jewish law and/or Jewish custom forbids doing so, directly or as a precautionary "fence" about the law.
Meaning: To Be God: Hebrew: אלהים Hebrew with vowels: אֱלֹהִים Transliteration: Ello-heem God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: Hebrew: אלהי אברהם יצחק ויעקב Alla-hee Awv-raw-hawm Eets-sawk vay-Yaw-aw-koav My Lord: Hebrew: אדוני Hebrew with vowels: אֲדֹנֵי־ Transliteration: Aw-doe-nye God's personal name ...
The Hebrew personal name of God YHWH is rendered as "the L ORD" in many translations of the Bible, with Elohim being rendered as "God"; certain translations of Scripture render the Tetragrammaton with Yahweh or Jehovah in particular places, with the latter vocalization being used in the King James Version, Tyndale Bible, and other translations ...
A Hebrew tetractys in a similar way has the letters of the Tetragrammaton (the four lettered name of God in Hebrew scripture) inscribed on the ten positions of the tetractys, from right to left. It has been argued that the Kabbalistic Tree of Life , with its ten spheres of emanation, is in some way connected to the tetractys, but its form is ...
El, a word meaning might, power and (a) god in general, and hence in Judaism, God and among the Canaanites the name of the god who was the father of Baal. Yah , a shortened form of Yahweh . Levantine deities (especially the storm god, Hadad ) by the epithet baal , meaning lord .
According to the Hebrew Bible, in the encounter of the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), Moses asks what he is to say to the Israelites when they ask what gods have sent him to them, and YHWH replies, "I am who I am", adding, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you. ' " [4] Despite this exchange, the Israelites are never written to have asked Moses for the name of God. [13]
Elohim, when meaning the God of Israel, is mostly grammatically singular, and is commonly translated as "God", and capitalised. For example, in Genesis 1:26 , it is written: "Then Elohim (translated as God) said (singular verb), 'Let us (plural) make (plural verb) man in our (plural) image, after our (plural) likeness ' ".
The Hebrew Bible is also known as the Tanakh, an acronym from the initial Hebrew letters of these three words; and as the Mikra, meaning "that which is read". Judaism has traditionally held that, along with the Torah, referred to as the Written Torah , God revealed a series of instructions on how to interpret and apply the Torah.