YHWH

English

Alternative forms

• IHVH, IHWH, JHVH, JHWH, YHVH

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.
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).

Translations

יהוה (tetragrammaton)

• Arabic: يَهْوَه m (yahwah)
• Cherokee: ᏱᎰᏩ (yihowa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耶和華／耶和华 (zh) (yé-hé-huá), 雅威 (zh) (yǎ-wēi)

• Dutch: JHWH (nl) m, JHVH (nl) m, Jahweh (nl) m, Jahwe (nl) m, Jehova (nl) m
• German: JHWH m, JHVH m, Jahwe (de) m, Jahweh m, Jahve (de) m, Jahveh m, Jewoha m, Jewohah m
• Greek: Γιαχβέ (el) m (Giachvé), Ιεχωβά (el) m (Iechová), Ιεοβά (el) m (Ieová)
• Hebrew: יהוה (he) m

  Samaritan: ࠉࠡࠄࠅࠝࠄ m

• Interlingua: Jehovah
• Latin: Dominus (la) Iehova
• Polish: Jahwe (pl) m
• Portuguese: Javé (pt) m, Jehová m, Jeová (pt) m
• Russian: Я́хве (ru) (Jáxve), Я́гве (Jágve), Иего́ва (ru) (Ijegóva)
• Serbo-Croatian: Jehova (sh) m, Jahve (sh) m
• Spanish: Jehová (es) m, Yavé, Yahvé (es), Yahweh
• Syriac: ܝܗܘܗ

Further reading

• YHWH on Wikipedia.Wikipedia