Meaning: Its source is a Hebrew expression meaning "The name of God."

Languages: This boy's name is used in scriptural writings.

Narrative: In Jewish and Christian practice, it stands for the name of God.

The Hebrew equivalents of the four letters ''Y H W H'' were inserted in the texts of the Jewish scriptures to represent the name of God, which was not allowed to be written, and was only to be uttered by priests at prescribed times during worship in the temple.

This ''Tetragrammaton,'' as it came to be called (from the Greek word for the number four, tetra), was often read as Adonai (Lord). In time it came to be pronounced ''Yaweh.''