Jehovist

[ji-hoh-vist]

noun

1. Yahwist.

Jehovist

/ dʒɪˈhəʊvɪst, ˌdʒiːhəʊˈvɪstɪk /

noun

1. another name for the Yahwist

2. a person who maintains that the name YHVH in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament was originally pronounced Jehovah

adjective

1. of or relating to the Yahwist source of the Pentateuch

Other Word Forms

• Jehovistic adjective
• Jehovism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Jehovist¹

First recorded in 1745–55; Jehov(ah) + -ist

Example Sentences

And, on the other hand, it is the Jehovist alone who tells of the sending forth of the birds, which occupies a considerable place in the Chaldean tradition.

From Project Gutenberg

What, moreover, in the Jehovist narrative bears a very marked impress of Chaldean origin is the part played in it by septennial periods; seven days intervening between the announcement and the beginning of the Deluge, seven between each sending forth of the birds.

From Project Gutenberg

This being granted, if the poem does not state precisely the intervals at which the three birds were sent forth, we are justified in applying here the figures used by the Jehovist in Genesis, and counting seven days between the first and second sending forth, seven between the second and third, and seven, lastly, between the departure of the bird which does not return, and the leaving the vessel.

From Project Gutenberg

And now, if we keep count of the time between the announcing of the cataclysm by Jahveh and its commencement, the figures of the Jehovist are in all 7 × 2 × 7 + 7 days, and those of the system of the Chaldean poem 7 × 7.

From Project Gutenberg

And we have just pointed out the parts played by hebdomades as successive periods in that system of the duration of the flood, adopted by the author of the Jehovist documents inserted in Genesis, as well as by the compiler of the Chaldean Epic of Uruk.

From Project Gutenberg