Jahveh
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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One sacristan, mentioning the sacred name, figured Jahveh as pressing forward with dilated nostrils.
From The Brook Kerith A Syrian story by George (George Augustus) Moore
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 Edgar Saltus
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
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
IN Judea, when Jahveh was addressed, he answered, if at all, with a thunderclap.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
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