Yahweh

English

Alternative forms

• Jahaveh, Jahve, Jahveh, Jahweh, Yahve, Yahveh, Yahwe

Etymology

The usual form of the ancient West Semitic (Hebrew) יהוה used in scholarship. Used especially in discussions of the religion of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The spelling Jahweh was used in German since the 1850s. The spelling Yahweh in English (ensuring the pronunciation of the initial consonant as /j/) first appears in the 1860s, e.g. in the Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come edited by John Thomas, founder of the Antipas Christadelphians (vol. X. no. 1, Westchester, NY, January 1860). First appeared in English Bible translations for the Tetragrammaton in the 1902 Emphasized Bible (EBR).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑː(h)weɪ/

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Proper noun

Yahweh

1. (history of religion) The name of the God of Israel worshipped by the Jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in antiquity.
   • 1913 "No certain evidence for the pre-Mosaic use of the form Yahweh [...] seems yet to have been brought forward." (H. W. Robinson, Religious Ideas of Old Testament, 3.53)
   • 1998, Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, →OL, page 273:

     We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creator, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be—Christ, Yahweh, Allah—He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone.

2. (biblical) In "Sacred Name Bibles", a transliteration of the Tetragrammaton.
   • 1985 "At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven" (New Jerusalem Bible, Genesis 2:4)

Synonyms

• Yahuwah
• Jah
• Jehovah
• יהוה (YHWH)

Derived terms

• Yahwism
• Yahwist

Translations

personal name of God

• Arabic: يَهْوَه m (yahwah)
• Aramaic: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄
• Armenian: Յահվե (Yahve)
• Catalan: Jahvè (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 耶和華／耶和华 (je⁴ ho⁴ waa⁴), 雅威 (ngaa⁵ wai¹)

  Hokkien: 耶和華／耶和华 (Iâ-hô-hoa)

  Mandarin: 耶和華／耶和华 (zh) (Yēhéhuá), 雅威 (zh) (Yǎwēi)

• Danish: Jahve
• Dutch: Jahweh (nl) m, Jahwe (nl) m
• Esperanto: Javeo (eo)
• Finnish: Jahve (fi)
• French: Yahweh (fr) m
• Georgian: იაჰვე (iahve)
• German: Jahwe (de) m
• Greek: Γιαχβέ (el) m (Giachvé), Ιαχβέ (el) m (Iachvé)

  Ancient: Ἰαω (Iaō), Ἰαωουηε (Iaōouēe), Ἰαβα (Iaba), Ἰαωουηι (Iaōouēi), Ἰαωουεη (Iaōoueē), Ἰαωουε (Iaōoue), Ἰαωουεα (Iaōouea), Ἰαουέ (Iaoué), Ἰαουαί (Iaouaí)

• Hebrew: יהוה (he) m
• Indonesian: Yahwe
• Irish: Iáimhé
• Itallian: Geova (it) m, Javè m
• Japanese: ヤハウェ (Yahawe)
• Korean: 야훼 (ko) (Yahwe)
• Marathi: याहवे m (yāhve)
• Persian: یهوه (fa) (yahve)
• Polish: Jahwe (pl) m
• Portuguese: Javé (pt) m
• Russian: Я́хве (ru) m (Jáxvɛ)
• Samaritan:

  Samaritan Aramaic: ࠉࠄࠅࠄ m (yhwh /⁠yāwe⁠/)

  Samaritan Hebrew: ࠉࠄࠅࠄ m (yāwe)

• Serbo-Croatian: Jȁhve (sh) m
• Sicilian: Javè m
• Spanish: Yavé m
• Swedish: Jahve
• Syriac: ܝܗܘܗ
• Tatar: Йәһвә (Yähwä)
• Thai: พระยาห์เวห์ (prá yah-weh)
• Ukrainian: Ягве m (Jahve)

Jehovah — see Jehovah

See also

• hallelujah
• Tetragrammaton

Jarai

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English Yahweh

Proper noun

Yahweh

1. (biblical, Protestantism) Yahweh
   • 2016, “Yap 31 [Numbers 31]”, in Hră Ơi Adai Pơhiăp [The Words of God]:

     Môseh tơña kơ ƀing gơñu tui anai, “Yua hơget ƀing gih brơi kơ abih bang ƀing đah kơmơi dŏ hơdip lĕ? Ƀing gơñu yơh jing ƀing đuaĭ tui hơdră Balaam pơ čư̆ Pheôr laih anŭn kiăng ba pơđuaĭ hĭ ƀing Israel mơ̆ng Yahweh. Yuakơ ƀing gơñu yơh, tơlơi kli̱n pơrai hĭ ƀing ană plei Yahweh. Ră anai pơdjai hĭ bĕ abih bang ƀing ană đah rơkơi. Laih anŭn pơdjai hĭ bĕ rĭm čô đah kơmơi hơmâo dŏ hrŏm laih hăng đah rơkơi, samơ̆ ƀing gih dưi djă̱ pioh kơ gih pô rĭm čô đah kơmơi aka dŏ hrŏm hăng đah rơkơi ôh.

     Moses told them, "Have you let all the women live? Look, they were the ones who followed Balaam's conspiracy and induced Israelites to worship Peor, and committed a sin against Yahweh; and that sin caused calamity on Yahweh's people. So now, kill all the males among the children, and kill all the women who have slept with a man; but save yourselves all the girls who have never slept with a man.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝabe/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.β̞e]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝabe/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.β̞e]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃabe/ [ˈʃa.β̞e]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒabe/ [ˈʒa.β̞e]

• Rhymes: -abe

Proper noun

Yahweh m

1. Alternative form of Yavé