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Jahveh

American  
[yah-ve] / ˈjɑ vɛ /
Also Jahve,

noun

  1. Yahweh.


Jahveh British  
/ ˈjɑːveɪ, ˈjɑːweɪ /

noun

  1. variant of Yahweh

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Jahveh then empowers the Adversary to put it to the test by depriving Job of his possessions and his family.

From The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur by Emile Joseph Dillon

They are four great gods diversely represented yet originally identical, and whose attributes Jahveh, in his ascensions, perhaps absorbed.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus

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

It was applied equally to Jahveh in Judea.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus

Jahveh talks with Adam and is perfectly understood; the serpent talks with Eve and is perfectly understood; Jahveh brings the animals before Adam, who bestows on each its name.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White

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