Yahweh

(yä′we, -wā)

noun

God: a form of the Hebrew name in the Old Testament

Origin: Heb, hypothetical reconstruction of the Tetragrammaton YHWH: first component, ya, Yahu, god < older Canaanite name

See Yahweh in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

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

Origin:

Origin: Hebrew; see hwy in Semitic roots

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