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Yahwe

noun
1.
A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH.  Synonyms: Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVH, Wahvey, Yahve, Yahveh, Yahweh, YHVH, YHWH.






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"Yahwe" Quotes from Famous Books



... both, though it may be that the inclusion of the second name in the narrative was not original but simply due to a combination of variant traditions. Such a conflate use of Anu-Enlil would present a striking parallel to the Hebrew combination Yahweh-Elohim, though of course in the case of the former pair the subsequent stage of identification was never attained. But the evidence furnished by the text is not conclusive, and it is preferable here and elsewhere ...
— Legends Of Babylon And Egypt - In Relation To Hebrew Tradition • Leonard W. King

... under Christianity.[91] In the Bible we may see the strife between old mores and a new religious system two or three times repeated. The so-called Mosaic system superseded an older system of mores common, as it appears, to all the Semites of western Asia. The prophets preached a reform of the Jahveh religion and we find them at war with the inherited mores.[92] The most striking feature of the story of the prophets is their antagonism to the mores which the people would not give up. Monotheism was not established until after the captivity.[93] The recurrence, ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner



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