YHWH
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YHWH
- The deity worshipped in Abrahamitic religions, Yahweh, called Adonai in Judaism due to a taboo on using the full name, and God and the Lord in Christianity.
- 1993, James Nogalski, Redactional Processes in the Book of the Twelve, De Gruyter, page 166:
- At the very least, the phraseology provides a clear linguistic marker, that the following section should not be read simply as an account of the Chaoskampf of the warrior YHWH battling the forces of chaos.
- Known as the "Tetragrammaton", the four Hebrew letters יהוה which are transliterated into the Latin alphabet as YHWH (also IHVH, JHVH, or YHVH). Usually vowels are added to produce the spelling Jehovah, Yehovah or Yahweh (Jahaveh, Jahve, Jahveh, Jahweh, Yahve, Yahveh, Yahwe).
Translations
יהוה (tetragrammaton)
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