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Visual depiction of Adonai

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Vol. IV · Monotheism

Adonai

the Hebrew word for Lord spoken in place of the Tetragrammaton


inscribed above open hands in the priestly blessing gesture, golden light streaming down through cloud

Organization
Abrahamic Monotheism
Time period
c. 1200 BCE – present
Location
Worldwide

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Names of the One God has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.