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Yah⋅weh

[yah-we]
–noun
a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah.
Also, Yahwe, Yah⋅veh, Yah⋅ve [yah-ve] , Jahveh, Jahve, Jahweh, Jahwe.
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Yahweh 
1869, hypothetical reconstruction of the tetragrammaton YHWH (see Jehovah), based on the assumption that the tetragrammaton is the imperfective of Heb. verb hawah, earlier form of hayah "was," in the sense of "the one who is, the existing."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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