Definitions for jahweh
jah·weh

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1. Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVHnoun

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

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1. jahweh

   Yahweh was the national god of ancient Israel and Judah. The origins of his worship reach at least to the early Iron Age, and likely to the Late Bronze Age if not somewhat earlier, and in the oldest biblical literature he possesses attributes typically ascribed to weather and war deities, fructifying the land and leading the heavenly army against Israel's enemies. The early Israelites were polytheistic and worshipped Yahweh alongside a variety of Canaanite gods and goddesses, including El, Asherah and Baal. In later centuries, El and Yahweh became conflated and El-linked epithets such as El Shaddai came to be applied to Yahweh alone, and other gods and goddesses such as Baal and Asherah were absorbed into Yahwist religion.Towards the end of the Babylonian captivity, the very existence of foreign gods was denied, and Yahweh was proclaimed as the creator of the cosmos and the one true God of all the world, giving birth to Judaism, which has c. 14–15 million adherents today. During the Second Temple period, speaking the name of Yahweh in public became regarded as taboo, and Jews instead began to substitute other words, primarily adonai (אֲדֹנָי‬‎, "my Lord"). In Roman times, following the Siege of Jerusalem and destruction of its Temple, in 70 CE, the original pronunciation of the god's name was forgotten entirely.Yahweh is also invoked in Papyrus Amherst 63, and in Jewish or Jewish-influenced Greco-Egyptian magical texts from the 1st to 5th century CE.

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1. jahweh

   Jahweh, also spelled Yahweh, is the Hebrew name for God used in the Old Testament of the Bible. It is considered the most sacred name of God in the Jewish faith and is often referred to as the unutterable or ineffable name. The exact meaning of Jahweh is uncertain, but it is often translated as "the Lord" or "the Existing One". In many English-language Bibles, it is usually represented as LORD in all capital letters. It is considered a personal name of God, signifying His eternal, self-existent, self-sufficient nature.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of jahweh in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of jahweh in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahweh
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