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Yahweh|ˈjɑːweɪ|
Formerly also Jahveh, Yahveh, Yahwe.
The usual form, among scholars, of the personal name of God in the Old Testament, representing the most likely vocalization of the ‘sacred tetragrammaton’ YHWH (see Jehovah).
1869J. E. Carpenter tr. Ewald's Hist. Israel II. 130 Jahveh alone was the true defence. 1885Studia Biblica I. 3 Delitzsch..propounds the following theory. The forms Yahu, Yah,..are of foreign origin. The form Yahweh, on the other hand, is distinctively Hebrew. 1892Montefiore Hibbert Lect. 45 Yahveh, to the Israelite, was emphatically the God of Right. 1899R. H. Charles Eschatol., Heb., Jew. & Chr. 8 As the natural God, Yahwè was the invisible Head of the nation. 1913H. W. Robinson Relig. Ideas of Old Test. iii. 53 No certain evidence for the pre-Mosaic use of the form Yahweh..seems yet to have been brought forward. 1936W. L. Wardle Hist. & Relig. Israel viii. 147 God reveals to Moses as something previously unknown that his name is Yahweh. 1958S. Godman tr. Noth's Hist. Israel i. ii. 99 In Jos. xxiv, there is no mention at all of sacrifices, but rather of a profession of faith in Yahweh. 1973D. J. Wiseman Peoples Old Testament Times p. xxi, The Sinai covenant was the seal of Yahweh's choice of the people. 1984Church Times 23 Nov. 7/2 He is a New Testament scholar concerned to expound..the growth of the biblical idea of Yahweh as the God who cares for the poor. |