✪ Pronounced "Yahweh". Derived from the verb "to be". The unpronounceable name of God. "yod heh vav heh" Y-H-V-H. "Adonai" (Lord) was read in its place. ". . . two references to the God Yahweh found in two New Kingdom Egyptian texts, one dating to ca. 1400 B.C. during the reign of Amenhotep III and the other to ca. 1300 B.C. during the reign of Seti I. These to references to Yahweh are mentioned by S. Herrmann in his Der alttestamentliche Gottesname (1966) and in his Israel in Egypt (1973). The Egyptologist D. Redford also mentions these two references to Yahewh in his Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times (1992)." Clyde E. Billington, The Curious History of the “Editor” in Biblical Criticism, Ref-0060, 22.4 (2009), 109:120, pp. 115-116.