Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yhwh

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English

Syllables: yh-wh
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The deity worshipped in Abrahamitic religions, Yahweh, called Adonai in Judaism due to a taboo on using the full name, and God and the Lord in Christianity.

name

Known as the "Tetragrammaton", the four Hebrew letters יהוה which are transliterated into the Latin alphabet as YHWH (also IHVH, JHVH, or YHVH). Usually vowels are added to produce the spelling Jehovah, Yehovah or Yahweh (Jahaveh, Jahve, Jahveh, Jahweh, Yahve, Yahveh, Yahwe).

Example Sentences

"At the very least, the phraseology provides a clear linguistic marker, that the following section should not be read simply as an account of the Chaoskampf of the warrior YHWH battling the forces of chaos."

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Religion.

Inflected Forms

IHVH (alternative) IHWH (alternative) JHVH (alternative) JHWH (alternative) YHVH (alternative) YKVK (alternative)

Questions

What does yhwh mean?: The deity worshipped in Abrahamitic religions, Yahweh, called Adonai in Judaism due to a taboo on using the full name, and God and the Lord in Christianity.

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