A Wisdom Archive on Yahweh

The Hebrew word for Passover is Pesach, a combination of peh and sach . The two words mean, 'the mouth speaks'. Passover is all about communication.
 
It all started with that communication from God to Moses or Moshe about the redemption of the Hebrews from their slavery under the Pharoah. This Holy communication guided the oppressed to freedom. For this act of redemption the Jews are so reverential to Him that they never write the word 'God' in full. Instead, they write G-d, afraid that the paper on which it is written may get trampled upon, however inadvertently. For God's name, YaHWeH, or JeHoVaH they use the tetragrammaton, YHWH, or JHVH. With the vowels absent, they cannot and do not pronounce His name.

 
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The Assemblies of Yahweh are a religious organization based in Bethel, PA. Their doctrines are a mix of Christian and Orthodox Jewish beliefs, centering on the use of the names Yahweh and Yahshua for God and Jesus Christ, respectively. Some of their central beliefs include the unity of God, the necessity of using the sacred names, the rejection of anything with pagan connections, which they believe includes the use of the titles "Lord", "God", "Jesus", and the celebration of holidays such as Christmas and Easter. Furthermore, t

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Moloch or Molech or Molekh representing Hebrew מלך mlk is either the name of a god or the name of a particular kind of sacrifice associated historically with Phoenician and related cultures in north Africa and the Levant. Moloch - Forms and grammar. The Hebrew letters מלך (mlk) usually stands for melek 'king' (Proto-Northwest Semitic malku) but when vocalized as mōlek in Masoretic Hebrew text, they have been traditionally understood as a proper ... Including:

• Moloch - Forms and grammar
• Moloch - Traditional accounts and theories
• Moloch - Eissfeldt's theory: a type of sacrifice
• Moloch - Biblical texts
• Moloch - Mosca's theories about offerings to Yahweh
• Moloch - Discussion of Eissfeldt's theory
• Moloch - Moloch in medieval texts
• Moloch - Flaubert's conception
• Moloch - Moloch as metaphor in modern art
• Moloch - Moloch in literature
• Moloch - Moloch in popular culture

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The tale of Zipporah at the inn, is one of the more unusual, curious, and much-debated, passages of the torah. When Moses and Zipporah reach an inn, the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision -Exodus 24b-26 Zipporah at the inn - Interpretation. ... Including:

• Zipporah at the inn - Interpretation
• Zipporah at the inn - Meaning
• Zipporah at the inn - Cause of Yahweh's desire to kill Moses
• Zipporah at the inn - Variant texts

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Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Moloch | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw Adonai | El | Elohim | Elyon | Shaddai | Shekinah | YHWH Adad | Amurru | An/Anu | Anshar | Asshur | Abzu/Apsu | Enki/Ea | Enlil | Ereshkigal | Inanna/Ishtar | Kingu | Kishar | Lahmu & Lahamu | Marduk | Mummu | Nabu | Nammu | Nanna/Sin | Nerga ... Including:

• Tetragrammaton - Meaning
• Tetragrammaton - Using consonants as semi-vowels
• Tetragrammaton - Using the vowels of YHWH
• Tetragrammaton - Vowel marks
• Tetragrammaton - The Scholarly Reconstructed pronunciation יַהְוֶה i.e. Yahweh
• Tetragrammaton - Scholarly sources in which יַהְוֶה is found
• Tetragrammaton - Jewish use of the word
• Tetragrammaton - Possible effect on the Hebrew Language
• Tetragrammaton - Alternative names
• Tetragrammaton - Possible origins
• Tetragrammaton - Popular culture
• Tetragrammaton - Footnotes

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Thou Art God is a statement of divine immanence that is popular within Neopaganism and other religions. The statement is sometimes taken from Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land. The statement thou art God is also found in the Bible at 1 Kings 18:36, 1 Chronicles 17:26, Psalm 86:10, Psalm 90:2 and Acts 4:24 (KJV). In Biblical usage it is always addressed solely to Yahweh ('Jehovah' or 'God'), as the God of Israel, and asserts that Yahweh is the universal transcendent Creator an ...

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Yahwistic is a theophoric term meaning of or pertaining to Yahweh, the name of the Jewish conception of monotheistic God, and can be applied as a suffix or prefix to a word. These prefixes or suffixes are yhw or variations of it, like ia-a in Akkaddian or yau. In common usage, the theophoric element of the word can be dropped- for example, the official name Jehoahaz becomes Ahaz among the commoners. Many- but not all- of the ancient Kings of Israel have Yahwistic n ...

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"Other deities worshipped at Ugarit were El Shaddai, El Elyon, and El Berith. All of these names are applied to Yahweh by the writers of the Old Testament. What this means is that the Hebrew theologians adopted the titles of the Canaanite gods and attributed them to Yahweh in an effort to eliminate them. If Yahweh is all of these there is no need for the Canaanite gods to exist! This process is known as assimilation." [1] In his euhemeristic account of the Phoenician deities, Sanchuniathon says: In their time is bo ...

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Athaliah (Hebrew Atalyahu (עתליה), "God is exalted") was the queen of Judah during the reign of King Jehoram, and later became sole ruler of Judah for five years. William F. Albright has dated her reign to 842 BC-837 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 841 BC-835 BC. She was the daughter of King Omri of Israel and her marriage to Jehoram sealed a treaty between Israel and Judah. Jehoram of Judah, a descendant of King David, actively promoted the worship of Yahweh in his country, but he tolerated Athaliah's worsh ...

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The Covenant Code, or alternatively Book of the Covenant, is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah at Exodus 21:2 - 23:33. Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes given to Moses, by Yahweh, at Mount Sinai. This legal text provides a small, but substantive, proportion of the mitzvot within the torah, and hence is a source of Jewish Law. Covenant Code - Academic Context. According to the modern documentary hypothesis, the text was originally independent, but l ... Including:

• Covenant Code - Academic Context
• Covenant Code - Provenance

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Ra (sometimes spelled Rê) is the sun-god of Heliopolis in ancient Egypt. Ra originally meant "mouth" in the Egyptian language, and was a reference to his creation of the deities of the Ogdoad system, excluding the 8 concepts which created him, by the power of speech (compare how Yahweh was said to have created the world). In later Egyptian dynastic times, Ra was subsumed into the god Horus, as Re-H ... Including:

• Ra - Deity status
• Ra - Solar barge
• Ra - Hathor and Ra
• Ra - Ra in pop culture

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Ananias is the Greek form of Hananiah (Hebrew for "Yahweh is gracious"), or Ananiah, a name occurring several times in the Old Testament and Apocrypha (Nehemiah 3:23, 1 Chronicles 15:23, Tobit 5:12. etc.), and three times in the New Testament. Special mention need be made only of the bearers of the name in the New Testament: A member of the first Christian community, who, with his wife Sapphira, was miraculously punished by Peter with sudden death for hypocrisy and falsehood (Acts 5:1-10; cf. Joshua 7:1 ff.)

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