Tattoo Mayhem 011

God is called by many names in Hebrew in the Torah, but the one that is considered the most sacred is known today as the Tetragrammaton, which is Greek for four letters. The tetragrammaton is so holy to observant Judaens will never utter it. Early Christian transliterators incorrectly pronounced it as Jehovah, but later on in the 19th century, the word was retransliterated into Yehweh.

Because Hebrew is read from right to left, the letters making up the tetragrammaton are (from right to left) Yod, He, Vau, and He. In English, it is commonly written out as YHWH or JHVH.