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Yahweh

American  
[yah-we] / ˈyɑ wɛ /
Also Yahwe,

noun

  1. a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah.

Yahweh British  
/ ˈjɑːveɪ, ˈjɑːweɪ /

noun

  1. Old Testament a vocalization of the Tetragrammaton, used esp by Christian theologians

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Etymology

Origin of Yahweh

from Hebrew, from YHVH, with conjectural vowels; perhaps related to hāwāh to be; see also Jehovah

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