köken: From Biblical Hebrew יְהֹוָה (YHWH), which is often rendered as ヤハウェ (Yahawe) in Japanese texts. This version is influenced by versions of the name in Christian translations such as Portuguese Jeová, English Jehovah. [jehoβa] → [ehoba]
The proper, personal name of the Jewish and Christian God.
köken: The etymology of this theonym has been discussed extensively in scholarly literature, but remains uncertain. It has been argued to be, among others: * the verbal form, prefixed by 3rd singular masculine y-, of hyh ~ hwh ~ hwy "to be" (whose ancestor is reconstructed by Huehnergard (2011) as Proto-Semitic *h-w-y (“to fall, happen, be, become”)), according to Lewis (2020). Lewis further interprets…