Jahveh
Americannoun
noun
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Jahveh, from a tutelary god, had indeed become the national divinity of a chosen people.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
Originally among the Jews, God's name as the "Plural of Majesty" indicated a unity formed from variety; but afterward it became in the word Jahveh a unity of substance.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
Thus the gulf which divided Jahveh, as a God afar off, from the world and his worshipers, closed up more and more.
From A Comparative View of Religions by Johannes Henricus Scholten
Both of these are given as the very words of Jahveh, spoken from “Horeb” or “Sinai.”
From The Christian Creed; or, What it is Blasphemy to Deny by Annie Besant
It was on Mount Nebo that Jahveh commanded the prophet of Israel to die.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
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