Yahweh

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Yahweh \Yah"weh\ (y[aum]"w[e^]), Yahwe \Yah"we\, prop. n. Also
  Jahveh \Jah"veh\ (y[aum]"w[e^]), Jahve \Jah"ve\, Yahve \Yahve\,
  Yahveh \Yahveh\, etc.
     A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated
     {Jehovah} in the Bible; -- used by some critics to
     discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the


     Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or {Yahwe} is the spelling now
     generally adopted by scholars.
  
     Syn: Yahwe, Yahveh, Wahvey, Jahve, Jahveh, Jahvey, Jahweh,
          Jehovah.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl. +WordNet 1.5 +CM] Jahvism

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Yahweh
       n : a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated
           from the Hebrew consonants YHVH [syn: {YHWH}, {Yahwe}, {Yahveh},
            {YHVH}, {Yahve}, {Wahvey}, {Jahvey}, {Jahweh}, {Jehovah},
            {JHVH}]