An unexpected aspect of Coverdale’s Bible is the omission of the divine name in the form “Jehovah.” Tyndale used the name of God over 20 times in his translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. In the book Coverdale and His Bibles, J. F. Mozley observes: “In 1535 Coverdale rejected the word [Jehovah] altogether.” Nonetheless, he did subsequently include God’s name, Jehovah, three times in the Great Bible.

Coverdale’s Bible, however, was the earliest English Bible to feature the Tetragrammaton​—the four Hebrew letters that make up the divine name—​at the head of its title page.

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Tetragrammaton, left, from the title page of a 1537 edition

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Photo source: From The Holy Scriptures of the Olde and Newe Testamente With the Apocripha by Myles Coverdale