Yahweh
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
The usual form of the ancient West Semitic ((deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.
As early as 1860 in the Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come edited by John Thomas, founder of the Antipas Christadelphians (vol. X. no. 1, Westchester, New York, January 1860).
First appears in English Bible translations for the Tetragrammaton in 1902 Emphasized Bible (EBR).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Yahweh
- (history of religion) the name of the God of Israel worshipped by the Jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in antiquity
- (biblical) in "Sacred Name Bibles", translating the Tetragrammaton
- 1985 "At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven" (New Jerusalem Bible, Genesis 2:4)
Synonyms
Translations
personal name of God
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Jehovah — see Jehovah
See also
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Yahweh m
- Alternative form of Yahvé
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