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English Dictionary: yahwe by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Yahwe
n
  1. a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
    Synonym(s): Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVH
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Yahweh \Yah"weh\, Yahwe \Yah"we\, n. Also Jahveh \Jah"veh\,
   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.
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