yahwe

Other forms of yahwe

plural

yahwes·

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 yahwe

What does yahwe mean?

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

How many syllables are in yahwe?

yahwe has 1 syllable: yahwe.

What is another word for yahwe?

Close synonyms include Yahweh, YHWH, Yahveh, YHVH, Yahve. 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 yahwe a common word?

yahwe 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.