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The general halachic opinion is that this only applies to the sacred Hebrew names of God, not to other euphemistic references; there is a dispute as to whether the word "God" in English or other languages may be erased or whether Jewish law and/or Jewish custom forbids doing so, directly or as a precautionary "fence" about the law.
Tetragrammaton. The Tetragrammaton ( / ˌtɛtrəˈɡræmətɒn / TET-rə-GRAM-ə-ton; from Ancient Greek τετραγράμματον ' [consisting of] four letters'), or the Tetragram, is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה ( transliterated as YHWH or YHVH ), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible.
Wisdom dwelt with God (Prov 8:22–31; cf. Sir 24:4; Wisdom 9:9–10) and being the exclusive property of God was as such inaccessible to human beings (Job 28:12–13, 20–1, 23–27). It was God who "found" wisdom ( Bar 3:29–37 ) and gave her to Israel : "He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto Jacob his servant ...
Shem HaMephorash ( Hebrew: שֵׁם הַמְּפֹרָשׁ Šēm hamMəfōrāš, also Shem ha-Mephorash ), meaning "the explicit name," is originally a Tannaitic term describing the Tetragrammaton. [1] In Kabbalah, it may refer to a name of God composed of either 4, 12, 22, 42, or 72 letters (or triads of letters), the latter version being the ...
Yahweh [a] was an ancient Levantine deity, and national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah. [4] Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, [5] scholars generally contend that Yahweh is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, [6] and later with Canaan.
Chokhmah (Hebrew: חָכְמָה) is the Biblical Hebrew word rendered as "wisdom" in English Bible versions (LXX σοφία sophia, Vulgate sapientia). The word occurs 149 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. It is cognate with the Arabic word for "wisdom", ḥikma حكمة (Semitic root ḥ-k-m).
Shekhinah (Hebrew: שְׁכִינָה , Modern: Šəḵīna, Tiberian: Šeḵīnā) is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the presence of God in a place. This concept is found in Judaism and the Torah, as mentioned in Exodus 25:8. The word "Shekhinah" is not found in the Bible.
In Judaism, God has been conceived in a variety of ways. Traditionally, Judaism holds that YHWH (commonly vowelled as Yahweh)—that is, the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel, and the national god of the Israelites—delivered them from slavery in Egypt, and gave them the Law of Moses at Mount Sinai as described in the Torah.