Les 237 occurrences ne se trouvent pas toutes dans des citations des Écritures hébraïques. L’appendice C3 de la Traduction du monde nouveau énumère les versets restants, qui « ne contiennent ni citation directe ni citation indirecte de l’“Ancien Testament” employant le Tétragramme » et où le nom est suppléé pour des raisons de contexte.

“These verses do not contain either a direct or an indirect quotation from the “Old Testament” that uses the Tetragrammaton. However, there are either strong contextual grounds or linguistic reasons for restoring the divine name in these verses. … It should be noted, though, that the New World Bible Translation Committee did not rely on these translations as the basis for restoring the divine name in the Christian Greek Scriptures.”

“Today, however, no manuscripts of the “New Testament” from the first century C.E. are available for us to examine. So no one can check the original Greek manuscripts of the “New Testament” to see whether the Bible writers used the Tetragrammaton. The Greek manuscripts of the “New Testament” that would have a bearing on this issue are copies that were made from about 200 C.E. onward.”