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2. Names of God in Judaism - Wikipedia

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   It is common Jewish practice to restrict the use of the names of God to a liturgical context. In casual conversation some Jews, even when not speaking Hebrew, will call God HaShem (השם), which is Hebrew for 'the Name' (compare Leviticus 24:11 and Deuteronomy 28:58). When written, it is often abbreviated to ה׳.

3. Yahweh - Wikipedia

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   The God on the Winged Wheel coin, minted in Gaza City, southern Philistia, during the Persian period of the 4th century BCE. It possibly represents Yahweh enthroned on a winged wheel, although this identification is disputed among scholars. Deities of the ancient Near East Ancient Egyptian Amun Anubis Apis Atum Buchis Geb Horus Isis Montu Nephthys Nut Osiris Ptah Qetesh Ra Set Shu Tefnut Thoth ...

4. Jehovah - Wikipedia

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   Jehovah (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ h oʊ v ə /) is a Latinization of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה ‎ Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה ‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. [2] [3] [4] The Tetragrammaton is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God's name in ...

5. Elohim - Wikipedia

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   The Hebrew Bible uses various names for the God of Israel. [ 75 ] : 102 According to the documentary hypothesis , these variations are the products of different source texts and narratives that constitute the composition of the Torah : Elohim is the name of God used in the Elohist (E) and Priestly (P) sources, while Yahweh is the name of God ...

6. What is Yom Kippur and how is it celebrated by Jewish ... - AOL

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   "Jewish law teaches that God inscribes the names of the righteous in the 'book of life' and condemns the wicked to death on Rosh Hashanah; people who fall between the two categories have until Yom ...

7. Tetragrammaton - Wikipedia

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   The Tetragrammaton in Phoenician (12th century BCE to 150 BCE), Paleo-Hebrew (10th century BCE to 135 CE), and square Hebrew (3rd century BCE to present) scripts. The Tetragrammaton [note 1] is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה ‎ (transliterated as YHWH or YHVH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible.

8. Jah - Wikipedia

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   Jah or Yah (Hebrew: יָהּ ‎, Yāh) is a short form of the tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the personal name of God: Yahweh, which the ancient Israelites used. The conventional Christian English pronunciation of Jah is / ˈ dʒ ɑː /, even though the letter J here transliterates the palatal approximant (Hebrew י Yodh).

9. Jewish principles of faith - Wikipedia

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   Although the dominant strain in Judaism is that God is personal, there is an "alternate stream of tradition exemplified by ... Maimonides", who, along with several other Jewish philosophers, rejected the idea of a personal God. [16] This reflected his belief in negative theology: that God can only be described by what God is not. [16]