Jehovist


Jehovist

(dʒɪˈhəʊvɪst) n1. (Bible) another name for the Yahwist2. (Theology) a person who maintains that the name YHVH in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament was originally pronounced Jehovahadj (Theology) of or relating to the Yahwist source of the Pentateuch Jeˈhovism n Jehovistic adj

Yah•wist

(ˈyɑ wɪst)

also Yah•vist

(-vɪst)

n. a writer of the earliest major source of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Yahweh rather than Elohim. Compare Elohist. Yah•wis′tic, adj.

Jehovist

1. Obsolete, a person who believes that the vowel-marks on the word Jehovah in Hebrew represent the actual vowels of the word.
2. the name given to the author(s) of the parts of the Hexateuch in which the sacred name is written Jehovah, instead of Elohim. — Jehovistic, adj.See also: Theology
Translations
Ιεχωβιστής