THE NAMES OF GOD

NAMES OF GOD IN THE BIBLE: A DISPENSATIONAL APPROACH : PROF. M. M. NINAN
A later application of notarikon consists of breaking up a word into various components.
Through such methods of interpretation many words in the Bible became notarikonim.
An example of such kabbalistic interpretation is the taking of the word “In the beginning”
Another example is to interpret bereshit to mean
Prologue, 3b). (See Encyclopaedia Judaica)
("created in six primordial days"; Zohar, Gen.
The use of noṭariḳon in forming the names of God is equally important.
Here the initial letters, or the middle letters, or the last letters of words are employed. Thus initial
letters of the individual words in the sentence form , the middle letters , and the final letters .
Another method is to take the alternate letters of the words in a sentence; for instance, the alternate
letters of (Deut. xxix. 28) form the name (Moses Cordovero, "Pardes Rimmonim," gate xxx., ch. viii.).
The best known of such combinations is the prayer of Neḥunya b. ha-Ḳanah beginning , the initials of
which constitute the forty-two-lettered name of God and also the Sefer Reziel’s Seventy two 3 letter
names of God using Ex. 14:19-21.
3. Temura,
is a form of letter substitution.
There are three simple forms of Temurah:
Atbash: Replacing the first letter with the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the second with the
next-to-last, and so on.
Table for אתבש ATBaSh
If we apply this to English alphabet it will be like substituting
etc.
a=z, b=y, c=x,
Thus (by At Bash): Yod Hey Vav Hey -> Mem Tsade Pey Tsade:
Avgad: Replacing each letter with the preceding letter.
If we apply this to English alphabet it will be like substituting a=b, b=c, c=d
Albam: Replacing the first letter of the alphabet with the twelfth, the
second with the thirteenth, and so on.
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