Yah·weh Yah·we, prop. n. Also Jah·veh Jah·ve, Yahve, Yahveh, etc. 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.
Syn: -- Yahwe, Yahveh, Wahvey, Jahve, Jahveh, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah.
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Yahwe
n : a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated
from the Hebrew consonants YHVH [syn: Yahweh, YHWH, Yahveh,
YHVH, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah,
JHVH]