Yahveh

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Yah·weh

(yä′wā, -wĕ) also Yah·veh (-vā, -vĕ) or Jah·veh (yä′vā, -vĕ) or Jah·weh (yä′wā, -wĕ)

A name for God thought to represent the original pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton among the ancient Hebrews.

[Conventional pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, written in Hebrew as yhwh; see hwy in Semitic roots.]

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Yahveh - a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH

Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVH, Wahvey, Yahve, Yahwe, Yahweh, YHVH, YHWH

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A similar noted immunity was that of David when he incurred the wrath of Yahveh by numbering his people, seventy thousand of whom paid the penalty with their lives.

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