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yahweh
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yahweh \Yah"weh\ (y[aum]"w[e^]), Yahwe \Yah"we\, n. Also Jahveh \Jah"veh\ (y[aum]"w[e^]), Jahve \Jah"ve\, etc. A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah in the Bible; -- used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or Yahwe is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1869, hypothetical reconstruction of the tetragrammaton YHWH (see Jehovah), based on the assumption that the tetragrammaton is the imperfective of Hebrew verb hawah, earlier form of hayah "was," in the sense of "the one who is, the existing."
Wiktionary
n. (context history of religion English) the name of the God of Israel worshipped by the Jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in antiquity
Wikipedia
Yahweh (, or often in English; ) is the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah. His origins are mysterious, although they reach back to the early Iron Age and even the Late Bronze: his name may have begun as an epithet of El, head of the Bronze Age Canaanite pantheon, but the earliest plausible mentions are in Egyptian texts that place him among the nomads of the southern Transjordan. In the oldest biblical literature he is a typical ancient Near Eastern "divine warrior" who leads the heavenly army against Israel's enemies; he later became the main god of the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) and of Judah, and over time the royal court and temple promoted Yahweh as the god of the entire cosmos, possessing all the positive qualities previously attributed to the other gods and goddesses. By the end of the Babylonian exile (6th century BCE), the very existence of foreign gods was denied, and Yahweh was proclaimed as the creator of the cosmos and the true god of all the world.
"Yahweh" is a song by rock band U2 and the eleventh track on their 2004 album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It was mainly recorded in one take, and was performed live by the band during the Vertigo Tour. The song received mixed reviews from critics.
Yahweh is the national God of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Yahweh is the first installment in the Hillsong Chapel praise and worship series by Hillsong Church, which was released in Australia on 26 October 2010 by Hillsong Music Australia in partnership with EMI. It was recorded live in the church’s Sydney chapel in March 2010. The album peaked in the Top 100 on the ARIA Albums Chart. A companion DVD was also filmed and released at the same time.
Usage examples of "yahweh".
Theatans would not worship him, Yahweh went into a self-imposed exile.
Into this peaceful world Yahweh entered, taking on a bright and magnificent appearance, such as the people of earth had never seen, telling them that he was the one true god, their creator, and that they were to worship him and obey the laws he would give them.
And to compel the people to obey, he threatened an insanely harsh and unjust punishment: Yahweh said that if they ate from that tree, they would die.
There was a much more insidious reason that Yahweh chose such a ridiculous law: for the very fact that it was ridiculous!
But because Yahweh had already appeared to them, there was little choice.
He spoke to the woman first and explained that Yahweh had lied to them and that if they ate the fruit of the tree they would not die.
He told her that if she ate the fruit she would realize that Yahweh had lied and that he was not what he claimed to be, but was instead a cruel tyrant who would stop at nothing to control them.
That should have been enough to convince mankind for all generations that Yahweh was a liar, but within a few centuries that knowledge was lost.
The self-righteous hatred Yahweh promotes and which has led to so much religious persecution and so many wars in the past, is the very fuel by which he corrupts the human spirit.
At this point, Yahweh has just told Moses to go to Egypt and tell Pharaoh to free the people of Israel.
All of Egypt suffered as Yahweh dumped one plague after another on the unsuspecting people.
After Yahweh sent Moses on the mission to Egypt to talk to Pharaoh, he decided to kill Moses for doing the very thing he had told him to do!
And talk about bloodthirsty, have you ever read the gruesome details of how Yahweh instructed the Jewish priests to slaughter sacrificial animals?
In the eleventh chapter of Judges, verses 29 through 39 is an account of where Yahweh required a man named Jephthah to sacrifice his only child, a young daughter, as a burnt offering in return for a military victory over the Ammonites.
Moses and Balaam demonstrate, Yahweh changes his mind whenever he damned well pleases!