jahweh

Other forms of jahweh

plural

jahwehs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jahweh

What does jahweh mean?

jahweh means "a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH".

How many syllables are in jahweh?

jahweh has 2 syllables: jah-weh. The stress falls on "jah".

What is another word for jahweh?

Close synonyms include Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jahweh a common word?

jahweh is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.