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Jahwe.

Yahweh (personal name of God)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈjaːve//ˈjaːvə/
  1. Yahweh (personal name of God)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Philological transcription of Biblical Hebrew יהוה, replacing earlier (erroneous) Iehova. As Jahwoh in 1778 (Le Clerc, Ars critica); Jahwo in 1784 (Samuel Friedrich Günther Wahl, Allgemeine Geschichte der morgenländischen Sprachen und Litteratur), 1790 (Wahl, Habakuk neu übersetzt); Jahwe in 1847 (Eduard Reuss, Der acht und sechzigste Psalm); Jahweh in 1855 (L. Herzfeld, Geschichte des Volkes Iisrael).

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