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What does Yahweh mean?
A
God
B
father
C
holy
D
Jesus
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of “YHWH, ‘’ the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus . The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton.

Detailed explanation-2: -While ‘God’ with its capitalization respectfully acknowledges that there is only one true ‘god’, it does not name him with his proper name, Yahweh. The personal name of God is Yahweh.

Detailed explanation-3: -Yahweh was an ancient Levantine deity that emerged as a “divine warrior” associated first with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, and later with Canaan, as the national god of ancient Israelites and Judahites.

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