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Yahweh vs Allah - What's the difference?

yahweh | allah |

As proper nouns the difference between yahweh and allah

is that yahweh is (history of religion) the name of the god of israel worshipped by the jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of israel and judah in antiquity while allah is allah.

yahweh

English

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)
  • Synonyms

    * Yahuwah * Jah * Jehovah * (YHVH)

    See also

    * hallelujah * Tetragrammaton English terms derived from the Bible ----

    allah

    Proper noun

    (-)
  • God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts
  • * {{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.}}
    What is the Shia Islamic view on the attributes of Allah ?

    Derived terms

    * ayatollah, Hezbollah

    Usage notes

    While the Arabic to Islamic contexts only. Various newspaper style manuals recommend translating the Arabic word in English as God , as this better reflects Arabic usage, but the term is often left untranslated in Islamic contexts. Thus either “Allah is great” or “God is great” may be seen.

    See also

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    References

    Anagrams

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