Ado·nai /ˌɑdəˈnɔɪ, ˈnaɪ/
  Ad·o·na·i n.  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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