Yahweh

  1. Proper noun.  (context, history of religion) the name of the God of Israel worshipped by the Jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in antiquity.
  2. Proper noun.  (context, biblical) in "Sacred Name Bibles", translating the Tetragrammaton.

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