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IHWH

IHWH is the alternative form of YHWH.

Meaning of YHWH

Proper noun

YHWH

  1. 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.
    • 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.1993, James Nogalski, Redactional Processes in the Book of the Twelve, De Gruyter, page 166
  2. 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).

Questions about IHWH

What is IHWH the alternative form of?
IHWH is the alternative form of YHWH.

Words near IHWH in the dictionary

  1. IHTFP
  2. Ihuru
  3. IHV
  4. IHVH
  5. IHVS
  6. IHWH
  7. ihy
  8. II
  9. IIA
  10. IIAF
  11. IIB

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Adapted from Wiktionary: IHWH (page history and authors); YHWH (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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