Yahwism

American

[yah-wiz-uhm] / ˈyɑ wɪz əm /

Also Yahvism

noun

the worship of Yahweh or the religious system based on such worship.

Yahwism British

/ ˈjɑːwɪzəm, ˈjɑːvɪzəm /

noun

the use of the name Yahweh, esp in parts of the Old Testament, as the personal name of God

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Etymology

Origin of Yahwism

First recorded in 1865–70; Yahw(eh) + -ism

Example Sentences

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Yahwism was made the sole official cultus.

From Time Magazine Archive

The history of Baalism among the Hebrews is obscured by the difficulty of determining whether the false worship which the prophets stigmatize is the heathen worship of Yahweh under a conception, and often with rites, which treated him as a local nature god; or whether Baalism was consciously recognized to be distinct from Yahwism from the first.

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