One reason for doing this, some translators say, is that God’s personal name, represented by the Tetragrammaton (YHWH), never appeared in the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures.
Kā apgalvo daži tulkotāji, viens iemesls esot tas, ka Dieva personvārds tetragrammas (JHVH) formā ne reizi nav sastopams Septuagintā — Ebreju rakstu tulkojumā grieķu valodā.