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This word is one of two mistaken ways of pronouncing the four consonants of God's Hebrew name. These mistakes arose when medieval Christians first started to learn Hebrew, and did not understand a Jewish convention regarding the pronunciation of this word.

The four consonants of the name, called the Tetragrammaton, do not have a literal translation, but the root appears to be connected to the Hebrew verb "to be".

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