Jahveh
Americannoun
noun
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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 Sumner, William Graham
They maintained that Jahveh was not only the single god of the Hebrews but the sole God of all the earth.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
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
Before Bel, then, the other gods faded as the Elohim did before Jahveh, with the possible difference that there were more to fade—sixty-five thousand, Assurnatsipal, in an inscription, declared.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar
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 Haddon, Alfred Court
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