Jahveh
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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And this he could hardly have done had he been aware of the fact that the contradictory proposition was vouched for by no less an authority than Jahveh Himself.
From The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur by Emile Joseph Dillon
The term Jehovah is a seventeenth-century expansion of the Hebrew , now usually written Jahveh and commonly translated: He who causes to be.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
Their sense is simply: For such is the usage in Israel, or in the Jahveh religion.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
As Jastrow points out, the higher religious and ethical movement began with Moses, who invested the national Jahveh with ethical traits, thus paving the way for the wider conceptions of the Prophets.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
As already shown, it is the equivalent of "Yahveh," or "Jahveh," now rendered "Jehovah," and signifies "The Self-existent One," "The Eternal," "The First and the Last."
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
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