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Yahwe   Listen
noun
Yahwe, Yahweh, Jahve, Jahveh  n.  A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah in the Bible; used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or Yahwe is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars.
Synonyms: Yahwe, Yahveh, Wahvey, Jahve, Jahveh, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah.





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"Yahwe" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the High Priest, it had seemed to them that they might indulge their wit as they pleased, and once he had even to reprove some priests, so blasphemous did their jests appear to him. An unusually fat bullock caused them to speak of the fine regalement he would be to Jahveh's nostrils. One sacristan, mentioning the sacred name, figured Jahveh as pressing forward with dilated nostrils. There is no belly in heaven, he said: its joys are entirely olfactory, and when this beast is smoking, ...
— The Brook Kerith - A Syrian story • George Moore


Words linked to "Yahwe" :   Jahweh, Jehovah, Yahve, Supreme Being, YHWH, Yahveh, Jahvey, Wahvey, god, YHVH, JHVH, Yahweh


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