Yahwism

Also Yahvism

[yah-wiz-uhm]

noun

1. the worship of Yahweh or the religious system based on such worship.

Yahwism

/ ˈjɑːwɪzəm, ˈjɑːvɪzəm /

noun

1. the use of the name Yahweh, esp in parts of the Old Testament, as the personal name of God

Word History and Origins

Origin of Yahwism¹

First recorded in 1865–70; Yahw(eh) + -ism

Example Sentences

Yahwism was made the sole official cultus.

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The history of Baalism among the Hebrews is obscured by the difficulty of determining whether the false worship which the prophets stigmatize is the heathen worship of Yahweh under a conception, and often with rites, which treated him as a local nature god; or whether Baalism was consciously recognized to be distinct from Yahwism from the first.

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