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Also abbreviated Jah, the most common name of God in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton, יהוה, which is usually transliterated as YHWH. The Hebrew script is an abjad, and thus vowels are often omitted in writing. YHWH is usually expanded to Yahweh in English. [11] Modern Rabbinical Jewish culture judges it forbidden to pronounce this name.
It therefore directed that, "in liturgical celebrations, in songs and prayers the name of God in the form of the Tetragrammaton YHWH is neither to be used or pronounced"; and that translations of Biblical texts for liturgical use are to follow the practice of the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate, replacing the divine name with "the Lord ...
Nobiscum deus ('God with us') was a battle cry of the late Roman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire. The name Amadeus translates to 'for love of God'. The genitive/dative dei occurs in such phrases as Roman Catholic organization Opus Dei ('work of God'), Agnus Dei ('Lamb of God') and Dei Gratia ('By the Grace of God').
Jah or Yah (Hebrew: יָהּ , Yāh) is a short form of the tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the personal name of God: Yahweh, which the ancient Israelites used. The conventional Christian English pronunciation of Jah is / ˈ dʒ ɑː /, even though the letter J here transliterates the palatal approximant (Hebrew י Yodh).
Superfluous means unnecessary or excessive. It may also refer to: Superfluous precision, the use of calculated measurements beyond significant figures;
It is probable that despite the fact that the Temple/priestly intelligentsia might refrain or even forbade pronouncing the Tetragrammaton, at least the knowledge of the correct pronunciation of God's name (as was heard at least by the high priest until 70 CE) and respectively its utterance was common practice until at least the 1st century CE.
Since the decipherment of hieroglyphics, Egyptologists have interpreted the final element of the name (-ʿnêaḫ, -anḗkh) as containing the Egyptian word ꜥnḫ "life"; notably, Georg Steindorff in 1889 offered a full reconstruction of ḏd pꜣ nṯr iw.f ꜥnḫ "the god speaks [and] he lives" (Middle Egyptian pronunciation: ṣa pīr nata yuVf [n 1] anaḫ). [15]
Amadeus is a theophoric given name derived from the Latin words ama – the imperative of the word amare ("to love") – and deus ("god"). As a linguistic compound in the form of a phereoikos, the name can be taken to mean either "love of God", in other words, that the person is loved by God [1] or "one who loves God".