The
tetragrammaton (from
Greek , meaning "(consisting) of four letters", and probably pronounced
Yahweh) is the Hebrew
theonym , commonly
transliterated into Latin letters as
YHWH. It is one of the
names of the
national god of the
Israelites used in the
Hebrew Bible. The name may be derived from a verb that means "to be", "to exist", "to cause to become", or "to come to pass".