Yahweh

English

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Etymology

The usual form of the ancient West Semitic (Hebrew) יהוה used in scholarship. Used especially in discussions of the religion of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The spelling Jahweh was used in German since the 1850s. The spelling Yahweh in English (ensuring the pronunciation of the initial consonant as /j/) first appears in the 1860s, e.g. in the Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come edited by John Thomas, founder of the Antipas Christadelphians (vol. X. no. 1, Westchester, NY, January 1860). First appeared in English Bible translations for the Tetragrammaton in the 1902 Emphasized Bible (EBR).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjɑː(h)weɪ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈjɑ(h)weɪ/, [ˈjɑːʍeɪ̯], [ˈjɑːweɪ̯]
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Proper noun

Yahweh

  1. (religion) YHWH, the deity worshiped in Abrahamic religions.
    • 1985 "At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven" (New Jerusalem Bible, Genesis 2:4)

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See also

Jarai

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Yahweh

Proper noun

Yahweh

  1. (biblical, Protestantism) Yahweh
    • Deuteronomy 6:4; Jarai translation from Hră Ơi Adai Pơhiăp 2016 (JBSV) version; 2021 English translation based on the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
      Hơmư̆ bĕ Ơ ƀing Israel: Yahweh jing Ơi Adai ta, hơjăn Yahweh yơh jing Ơi Adai ta sĭt.
      Hear, O Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh alone.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈʝabe/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.β̞e] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃabe/ [ˈʃa.β̞e] (Buenos Aires and environs)
  • IPA(key): /ˈʒabe/ [ˈʒa.β̞e] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

  • Rhymes: -abe

Proper noun

Yahweh m

  1. alternative form of Yavé
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