Jahwe

Jahwe

1. Alternative form of Yahweh.

• Jahweh, Jahve

Philological transcription of Biblical Hebrew יהוה, replacing earlier (erroneous) Iehova. As Jahwoh in 1778 (Le Clerc, Ars critica); Jahwo in 1784 (Samuel Friedrich Günther Wahl, Allgemeine Geschichte der morgenländischen Sprachen und Litteratur), 1790 (Wahl, Habakuk neu übersetzt); Jahwe in 1847 (Eduard Reuss, Der acht und sechzigste Psalm); Jahweh in 1855 (L. Herzfeld, Geschichte des Volkes Iisrael).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːve/, /ˈjaːvə/

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• Hyphenation: Jah‧we

Jahwe m (genitive Jahwes)

1. Yahweh (personal name of God)

   Synonyms: Jehowa, JHWH

• The masculine possessive pronoun sein is used for this as in sein Volk.

Transliteration of Biblical Hebrew יְהֹוָה. Doublet of Jehowa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈja.xfɛ/

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• Rhymes: -axfɛ
• Syllabification: Ja‧hwe

Jahwe m pers (indeclinable)

1. (biblical, Christianity, Judaism, Protestantism, theology) Jehovah (personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures)

   Synonym: Jehowa

2. Yahweh (ancient Levantine deity, and national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah)

   Synonym: Jehowa

• Jahwe in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Jahwe in PWN's encyclopedia