but the word “adonai” only appears in the Old Testament. The natural form of the word should be’adōnai, but the Old Testament form of the word,’adōnāi, which is unique to the Hebrew Bible, has generated much discussion and scholars are not agreed on the origin...
Its vowels are found in the Massoretic Text with the unpronounceable tetragrammaton YHWH; and when the Hebrew reader came to these letters, he always substituted in pronunciation the word " 'adhonay." Its vowels combined with the tetragrammaton form the word "Yahweh (Yahweh)."See GOD, ...
Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt Lamentations 2:3 Or off / all the strength; or every king Lamentations ...