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Yahweh

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A name for the God of the Hebrew Bible, rendered from the Tetragrammaton YHWH.
"Scholars debate the correct pronunciation of Yahweh in ancient Hebrew."
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The English form Yahweh emerged in 19th-century scholarship as a rendering of the ancient Hebrew Tetragrammaton יהוה, first appearing in Bible translations around 1902.

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