Definition of Yahweh

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Yah·weh

(yä

, -w

) KEY also Yah·veh (-v

, -v

) KEY or Jah·veh (yä

, -v

) KEY or Jah·weh (yä

, -w

) KEY

NOUN:

A name for God assumed by modern scholars to be a convention for pronouncing the Tetragrammaton.

ETYMOLOGY:
Hebrew; see hwy in Semitic roots

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