Yahweh

English

Alternative forms

• Jahaveh, Jahve, Jahveh, Jahwe, Jahweh, Yahve, Yahveh, Yahwe

Etymology

The usual form of the ancient West Semitic (Hebrew) יהוה used in scholarship. Used especially in discussions of the religion of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The spelling Jahweh was used in German since the 1850s. The spelling Yahweh in English (ensuring the pronunciation of the initial consonant as /j/) first appears in the 1860s, e.g. in the Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come edited by John Thomas, founder of the Antipas Christadelphians (vol. X. no. 1, Westchester, NY, January 1860). First appeared in English Bible translations for the Tetragrammaton in the 1902 Emphasized Bible (EBR).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑː(h)weɪ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Yahweh

1. (religion) An hypothetical transliteration of the Tetragrammaton.
   • 1985 "At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven" (New Jerusalem Bible, Genesis 2:4)

Synonyms

• Yahuwah
• Jah
• Jehovah
• יהוה (YHWH)

Derived terms

• Yahwism
• Yahwist

Translations

personal name of God

• Arabic: يَهْوَه m (yahwah)
• Aramaic: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄
• Armenian: Յահվե (Yahve)
• Catalan: Jahvè (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 耶和華 / 耶和华 (je⁴ ho⁴ waa⁴), 雅威 (ngaa⁵ wai¹)

  Hokkien: 耶和華 / 耶和华 (Iâ-hô-hoa)

  Mandarin: 耶和華 / 耶和华 (zh) (Yēhéhuá), 雅威 (zh) (Yǎwēi)

• Danish: Jahve
• Dutch: Jahweh (nl) m, Jahwe (nl) m
• Esperanto: Javeo (eo)
• Finnish: Jahve (fi)
• French: Yahweh (fr) m
• Georgian: იაჰვე (iahve)
• German: Jahwe (de) m
• Greek: Γιαχβέ (el) m (Giachvé), Ιαχβέ (el) m (Iachvé)

  Ancient: Ἰαω (Iaō), Ἰαωουηε (Iaōouēe), Ἰαβα (Iaba), Ἰαωουηι (Iaōouēi), Ἰαωουεη (Iaōoueē), Ἰαωουε (Iaōoue), Ἰαωουεα (Iaōouea), Ἰαουέ (Iaoué), Ἰαουαί (Iaouaí)

• Hebrew: יהוה (he) m
• Indonesian: Yahwe
• Irish: Iáimhé
• Itallian: Geova (it) m, Javè m
• Japanese: ヤハウェ (ja) (Yahawe)
• Korean: 야훼 (ko) (Yahwe)
• Marathi: याहवे m (yāhve)
• Persian: یهوه (fa) (yahve)
• Polish: Jahwe (pl) m
• Portuguese: Javé (pt) m
• Russian: Я́хве (ru) m (Jáxvɛ)
• Samaritan:

  Samaritan Aramaic: ࠉࠞࠄࠅ࠘ࠥࠄ m (yå̂ːhbăh /⁠yāwa⁠/)

  Samaritan Hebrew: ࠉࠞࠄࠅ࠘ࠥࠄ m (yāwa)

• Serbo-Croatian: Jȁhve (sh) m
• Sicilian: Javè m
• Spanish: Yavé m
• Swedish: Jahve
• Syriac: ܝܗܘܗ
• Tatar: Йәһвә (Yähwä)
• Thai: พระยาห์เวห์ (prá yah-weh)
• Ukrainian: Ягве m (Jahve)
• Vietnamese: Gia-vê, Yavê

Jehovah — see Jehovah

See also

• hallelujah
• Tetragrammaton
• Jehovah

Jarai

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Yahweh

Proper noun

Yahweh

1. (biblical, Protestantism) Yahweh
   • Deuteronomy 6:4; Jarai translation from Hră Ơi Adai Pơhiăp 2016 (JBSV) version; 2021 English translation based on the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

     Hơmư̆ bĕ Ơ ƀing Israel: Yahweh jing Ơi Adai ta, hơjăn Yahweh yơh jing Ơi Adai ta sĭt.

     Hear, O Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh alone.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝabe/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.β̞e]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝabe/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.β̞e]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃabe/ [ˈʃa.β̞e]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒabe/ [ˈʒa.β̞e]

• Rhymes: -abe

Proper noun

Yahweh m

1. Alternative form of Yavé