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Yahweh
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Yah·weh  (yäw, -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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Noun1.Yahweh - a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVH, Wahvey, Yahve, Yahveh, Yahwe, YHVH, YHWH
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It is terrifying, beyond representation, like the old Testament Yaweh in its power to chasten and daunt and intimidate.
Terror and the law: law and transgression are two sides of the same ... by Eagleton, Terry / Arena Magazine
When we evaluate, we (we, not Jesus, not Yaweh, not The Old Man of the Mountain, not Shirley MacLaine, and not, heavens to Alfred, Korzybski) assign values to things, to whatever we're talking/writing about.
A general semantics glossary (part XII) by Pula, Robert P. / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
But a quake is like a unmotivated slap in the face, like what Abram must have felt when Yaweh, for no special reason, called him by name.
The McConnell quakes; the electric hearth blazes by McConnell, Frank / Commonweal
 
 
 
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