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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A name for God thought to represent the original pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton among the ancient Hebrews.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun the name of the God of Israel worshipped by the Jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in antiquity
  • proper noun biblical in "Sacred Name Bibles", translating the Tetragrammaton

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Conventional pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, written in Hebrew as yhwh; see hwy in Semitic roots.]

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