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Yahweh , modern reconstruction of YHWH, the ancient Hebrew ineffable name for God . Other forms are Jah, Jahve, Jahveh, Jahweh, Jehovah, Yahve, Yahveh, and Yahwe.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Yahweh. The Hebrew proper name for God. It probably represents the original pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton (q.v.).

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Yahweh. The God of Judaism as the tetragrammaton, YHWH, may have been pronounced. By Orthodox and many other Jews, God's name is never articulated, least of all in the Jewish liturgy.

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