Yah·weh (yä w , -w ) also Yah·veh (-v, -v) or Jah·veh (yäv, -v) or Jah·weh (yäw, -w)n. A name for God assumed by modern scholars to be a convention for pronouncing the Tetragrammaton. [Hebrew; see hwy in Semitic roots.] |
Yahweh, Jahweh [ˈjɑːweɪ], Yahveh, Jahveh [ˈjɑːveɪ]
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) Old Testament a vocalization of the Tetragrammaton, used esp by Christian theologians
[from Hebrew, from YHVH, with conjectural vowels; perhaps related to hāwāh to be; see also Jehovah]
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