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ヤハウェ (yahawe) Japanese meaning: Yahweh | Kotomora

ヤハウェ

also: ヤーウェ · ヤーヴェ

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Meanings

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Yahweh; Jehovah

The personal name of God in the Hebrew Bible, used in academic, religious, and biblical contexts. In Japanese, ヤハウェ is the most common form, while エホバ (Jehovah) is also used in some Christian denominations.

from Hebrew

See also: エホバ

旧きゅう約やく聖せい書しょでは、神かみの名なはヤハウェと表ひょう記きされることが多おおい。

Related words

エホバ
エホバ is the traditional English-based rendering 'Jehovah', used especially by Jehovah's Witnesses and in some older translations, while ヤハウェ is closer to the scholarly reconstruction of the Hebrew pronunciation.

Written forms

ヤハウェUsage70%
Most common Japanese spelling for the biblical name of God.
ヤーウェUsage30%
Alternate spelling with long vowel.
ヤーヴェ
Alternate spelling with long vowel and 'v' sound.

Etymology

From Hebrew יהוה (YHWH), the tetragrammaton. The exact original pronunciation is uncertain; 'Yahweh' is a scholarly reconstruction. The Japanese forms ヤハウェ, ヤーウェ, and ヤーヴェ reflect different transliterations.

In the Old Testament, the name of God is often written as Yahweh.

ヤハウェは「私わたしはある」という意い味みだと説せつ明めいされる。

Yahweh is explained to mean 'I am who I am'.