: god sense 1a
—used especially by the ancient Hebrews
compare tetragrammaton
Examples of Yahweh in a Sentence
a count of the number of times Yahweh is mentioned in the Old Testament
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Paul Grein, Billboard, 12 June 2025
Photo: Jeenah Moon/The Washington Post via Getty Images Unlike the series of plagues Yahweh unleashed on the Egyptians in the Book of Exodus, our world has become infested with something far more annoying: celebrity look-alike contests.
—Michael Savio, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
Even atheists would have no trouble identifying Maarten de Vos’s bearded old man as Yahweh.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Wilks, who is four years older, practices a form of Christianity that hews closely to the Old Testament at the Assembly of Yahweh, a church his family founded outside of Cisco, a town in Central Texas.
—Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2024
The higher power in the Bible goes by many names — God, Jesus Christ, Jehovah, Yahweh, the Messiah.
—Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2024
Whom would you rather be fathered by, Job or Yahweh?
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
In Israel, the hero figure evolved into Yahweh — the Hebrew name for god — fighting a leviathan, Uehlinger said.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
This is because the ancient Hebrew name for God, Yahweh or YHWH, when written resembles four ones.
—Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
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Paul Grein, Billboard, 12 June 2025
Photo: Jeenah Moon/The Washington Post via Getty Images Unlike the series of plagues Yahweh unleashed on the Egyptians in the Book of Exodus, our world has become infested with something far more annoying: celebrity look-alike contests.
—Michael Savio, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
Even atheists would have no trouble identifying Maarten de Vos’s bearded old man as Yahweh.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Wilks, who is four years older, practices a form of Christianity that hews closely to the Old Testament at the Assembly of Yahweh, a church his family founded outside of Cisco, a town in Central Texas.
—Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2024
The higher power in the Bible goes by many names — God, Jesus Christ, Jehovah, Yahweh, the Messiah.
—Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2024
Whom would you rather be fathered by, Job or Yahweh?
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
In Israel, the hero figure evolved into Yahweh — the Hebrew name for god — fighting a leviathan, Uehlinger said.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
This is because the ancient Hebrew name for God, Yahweh or YHWH, when written resembles four ones.
—Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
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“Yahweh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Yahweh. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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