Proper noun

(en proper noun)

(history of religion) the name of the God of Israel worshipped by the Jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in antiquity

* 1913 "No certain evidence for the pre-Mosaic use of the form Yahweh [...] seems yet to have been brought forward." (H. W. Robinson, Religious Ideas of Old Testament , 3.53)

* {{quote-book

, year = 1998 , first = Anne , last = Rice , authorlink = Anne Rice , title = The Vampire Armand , location = New York , publisher = Knopf , isbn = 9780679454472 , ol = 354828M , page = 273 , passage = We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creator, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be—Christ, Yahweh , Allah—He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone. }}

(biblical) in "Sacred Name Bibles", translating the Tetragrammaton

* 1985 "At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven" (New Jerusalem Bible, Genesis 2:4)