Footnote 3 – What’s in a Name?

The essentially synonymous term Adonai (literally “my Lord,” from ’adon, “Lord,” eventually became the preferred title of YHWH. It, too, now functions as a name. In Jewish practice to this day, out of respect for God’s name, wherever the Hebrew text of the Bible says YHWH, it is usually pronounced Adonai and not Yahweh.