Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Adonai"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Adonai \Ad`o*na"i\, n. [Heb. ad[=o]n[=a]i, lit., my lord.]
A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old
Testament by the word ``Lord''.

Note: The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the
tetragrammaton {Yhvh}, or {Ihvh}, ``the incommunicable
name,'' and in reading substituted ``Adonai''.


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