yahweh
IPA: jˈɑwɛ
Root Word: Yahweh
noun
- (history of religion) The name of the God of Israel worshipped by the Jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in antiquity.
- (biblical) In "Sacred Name Bibles", a transliteration of the Tetragrammaton.
Examples of "yahweh" in Sentences
- Tell me johnnie retard, why did yahweh hate meat eaters again?
- I am shocked and appalled by the use of the word 'yahweh' in the quotes from the bible.
- We picked him up at bargin basement prices, now were keeping an eye out for yahweh on the cheap.
- They are vile twisted hillbillies that are a threat to our way of life whether they pray to allah, god or yahweh.
- Here's more video of prophet yahweh summoning UFOS, for ABC news [Las Vegas ABC television affiliate KNTV] this time.
- Even the pronunciation yahweh is incorrect as the vocalization for this god appears nowhere but is only surmised from its substitution.
- For by common consent the lexicons interpret the expression qara 'beshem yahweh to mean: to "use the name of Yahweh in worship" (B D B).
- The expression "way of Yahweh" (derekh yahweh) requires "Yahweh" to be construed as a subjective genitive: "the way which Yahweh desires."
- Abram's first mild complaint, expressing what has long burdened his soul and caused fear (v. 1b), begins: "Lord Yahweh," i. e., 'adhonay yahweh.
- For Catholics, literal scripture is not usually considered so critical anyway, but it is still worth pointing out that the abortion prohibition is a creation of men, not yahweh. of course for many Catholics it has also usually been true that anything that seems anti-sexual freedom is also automatically assumed to be the word of God.