Yahweh

= Yahweh =
 Jehovah is the anglophonic name of , translated from the transliteration of the Tetragrammaton (יהוה), YHVH.
Yahweh was an ancient Levantine deity, and national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, scholars generally contend that Yahweh emerged as a "divine warrior" associated first with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, and later with Canaan. The origins of his worship reach at least to the early Iron Age, and likely to the Late Bronze Age, if not somewhat earlier.
In the 1500s, William Tyndale popularized the anglophonic version of יהוה as "Jehovah" in his translations for the Tyndale Bible. The 1611 King James Version used the archaic form of "Jehovah" in four places of its Bible translation. Since "Jehovah's Witnesses" first used the King James Version in their evangelizing activities, they prefer to use the English pronunciation and translation of "" when referring to the Divine name (יהוה) of God.
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