Jahveh
Americannoun
noun
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The biblical scholars now tell us that Jahveh 558was a Baal amongst other Palestinian Baals until this antagonism arose.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
The ancient Jew worshipped Jahveh, but that did not prevent the Baalites from having a god of their own, to whom they could appeal in the hour of need.
From Nature and the Gods From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures by Moss, Arthur B.
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 Saltus, Edgar
And, in the course of the history of Israel, Jahveh himself thus appears to all sorts of persons, non-Israelites as well as Israelites.
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.
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 Clarke, James Freeman
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