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Counterpoint: the accepted biblical English translation of the name of god is "the Lᴏʀᴅ" or "Gᴏᴅ". Don't faff about at the half-way mark. [Poe's law status: sa
by sonofgod 8y ago
Counterpoint: the accepted biblical English translation of the name of god is "the Lᴏʀᴅ" or "Gᴏᴅ". Don't faff about at the half-way mark.
[Poe's law status: satire with an smidgen of pedant]
- pmdulaney 8y agoThe all caps indicates (in the OT) that the word used for God was the tetragrammaton, the four Hebrew letters from which we get Jehovah in English. There is at least one other common name for God in Hebrew which is not capitalized when transliterated.