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Yah⋅weh

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–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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Yah·weh (yä'wā, -wě)

n. A name for God assumed by modern scholars to be a convention for pronouncing the Tetragrammaton.

[Hebrew; see hwy in Semitic roots.]

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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."

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