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Definition of Jahweh
1. Noun. A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH.
Generic synonyms: God, Supreme Being
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jahweh
Literary usage of Jahweh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"He spoke in the name of jahweh, and therefore in the name of righteousness.
The prophet's predecessors identified the cult of jahweh with patriotism. ..."
2. The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religion by Grant Allen (1908)
"jahweh, the god of the Hebrews, was a jealous God, and he would tolerate no ...
And who or what was this jahweh himself, this local and ethnic god of the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"jahweh is my Shepherd ; parallelism in linee and half-lines, synonymous, ...
Surely jahweh cannot have inspired the singer who prayed: To the grasp of the ..."
4. Light on the Old Testament from Babel by Albert Tobias Clay (1906)
"THE NAME jahweh IN CUNEIFORM LITERATURE A question which has aroused considerable
interest, by reason of its discussion in the Bibel und Babel literature, ..."
5. Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow (1911)
"Like Enlil, jahweh comes from the mountains. His seat is on the top of Mt.
Sinai, or, as it is said in the Song of Deborah,1 on Mt. Seir in Edom. ..."
6. God and My Neighbour by Robert Blatchford (1910)
"First, then, as to my claim that jahweh, or Jehovah, was a tribal god. ...
jahweh comes to the man in his sleep, and takes part of his body to make a woman, ..."
7. The Theology of the Old Testament by Andrew Bruce Davidson (1904)
"1 represents God in His appearance to Abraham as saying, " I am El Shaddai"; and
now he introduces God saying, " I am jahweh." Tn other words, he is ..."
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