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Adonai
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Adonai, n. [Heb. ad, lit., my lord.].
A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word “Lord”. [1913 Webster]
" The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh , or Ihvh , “the incommunicable name,” and in reading substituted “Adonai”." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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