- Yahweh
- also Jahveh or Yahveh noun Etymology: Hebrew Yahweh Date: 1869 god 1a — used especially by the ancient Hebrews; compare tetragrammaton
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Yahweh — Yah weh (y[aum] w[e^]), Yahwe Yah we, n. Also Jahveh Jah veh (y[aum] w[e^]), Jahve Jah ve, etc. A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated {Jehovah} in the Bible; used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Yahweh — • Proper name of God in the Old Testament Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 … Catholic encyclopedia
Yahweh — 1869, hypothetical reconstruction of the tetragrammaton YHWH (see JEHOVAH (Cf. Jehovah)), based on the assumption that the tetragrammaton is the imperfective of Hebrew verb hawah, earlier form of hayah was, in the sense of the one who is, the… … Etymology dictionary
Yahweh — ► NOUN ▪ a form of the Hebrew name of God used in the Bible. ORIGIN Hebrew … English terms dictionary
Yahweh — or Yahwe [yä′ve, yä′vāyä′we, yä′wā] n. [Heb, hypothetical reconstruction of the Tetragrammaton YHWH: first component, ya, Yahu, god < older Canaanite name] God: a form of the Hebrew name in the Old Testament: see TETRAGRAMMATON: also Yahve or… … English World dictionary
Yahweh — For information about Yahweh, see God in Abrahamic religions, which provides useful links. Yahweh is an English transliteration of he. יַהְוֶה a 19th century proposed punctuation of he. יהוה (the Tetragrammaton), which is the distinctive personal … Wikipedia
Yahweh — /yah we/, n. a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah. Also, Yahwe, Yahveh, Yahve /yah ve/, Jahveh, Jahve, Jahweh, Jahwe. * * * ▪ Bible the God of the Israelites, his name being… … Universalium
Yahweh — Occurs nearly 6,000 times in the OT as the name for God, but increasing reverence caused it to be replaced in public reading by ‘Adonai’ (‘My great Lord’). When vowels were added to the Hebrew text, those of Adonai were combined with YHWH to warn … Dictionary of the Bible
Yahweh — Cet article court présente un sujet plus développé dans : YHWH. « Yahweh » ou « Yahvé » est une transcription longtemps utilisée par l Église catholique romaine, et désormais considérée comme erronée[réf. nécessaire] … Wikipédia en Français
Yahweh — , YHWH This word represents the four consonants, usually transcribed YHWH, used in the Hebrew Scriptures to indicate the name of God. Modern biblical scholars have reconstructed the pronunciation as Yahweh, though some have transcribed the… … Glossary of theological terms
