HaShem ( Hebrew: ''hšm'', literally "''the name''"; often abbreviated to 'h′'' is a title used in Judaism to refer to God. It is also a given name and surname.

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Judaism Judaism ( he, ''Yahăḏūṯ'') is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people. It has its roots as an organized religion in the ...

, '' HaShem'' (lit. 'the Name') is used to refer to God, particularly as an epithet for the

Tetragrammaton The Tetragrammaton (; ), or Tetragram, is the four-letter Hebrew language, Hebrew theonym (transliterated as YHWH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four letters, written and read from right to left (in Hebrew), are ''yodh'', ''he (l ...

, when avoiding God's more formal title, ''Adonai'' ('my master').

People with the given name

Hashem Aghajari Seyyed Hashem Aghajari ( fa, سیدهاشم آقاجری, born 1957) is an Iranian historian, university professor and a critic of the Islamic Republic's government who was sentenced to death in 2002 for apostasy for a speech he gave on Islam ur ...

(born 1957), Iranian historian *

Hashem Akbari Hashem Akbari (born 13 August, 1949) is an Iranian-American professor of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Concordia University. He specializes in research on the effects of urban heat islands, cool roofs, paving materials, energy ...

(born 1949), Iranian-American professor at Concordia University *

Hashem Akbarian Pahlavan Mirza Hashem Akbarian ( fa, میرزا هاشم اکبریان) (1897 (Persian year 1275) – 1971) was an Iranian practitioner of traditional wrestling (Varzesh-e Pahlavani). Early life Akbarian was born in Chaharsoogh Aligholi Agha ...

(1897–1971), Iranian wrestler * Mirza Hashem Amoli (1899–1993), Iranian ayatollah * Hashem Beikzadeh (born 1984), Iranian footballer *

M. Hashem Pesaran Mohammad Hashem Pesaran (born 30 March 1946) is a British-Iranian economist. He received his BSc in economics at the University of Salford (England) and his PhD in Economics at Cambridge University. Previously, Pesaran was professor at the Fa ...

(born 1946), British-Iranian economist *

Mohammad Hashem Taufiqui Al Haj Eng Economist Mohammad Hashem Taufiqui (الحاج محمد هاشم توفیقی) (born June 6, 1942 and passed away on June 6, 2021 Kabul) was one of the candidates in the presidential election of 2009 in Afghanistan.Ibrahim Hashem (1888–1958), Jordanian lawyer and politician *

Nadia Hashem Nadia Hashem (died 12 February 2023) was a Jordanian journalist and politician who served as minister of state for women's affairs from May 2012 to October 2012. She was the first woman state minister for women's affairs of Jordan. Education Has ...

, Jordanian journalist and politician

Tribes with the given name

Banu Hashim ) , type = Qurayshi Arab clan , image = , alt = , caption = , nisba = al-Hashimi , location = Mecca, Hejaz Middle East, North Africa, Horn of Africa , descended = Hashim ibn Abd Manaf , parent_tribe = Qu ...

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Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

: بنو هاشم) arabic clan within the Quraysh tribe to which the prophet

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...

belonged.

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People with the given name

Tribes with the given name

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