YAHWIST; JAHVIST; JAHWIST; JEHOVIST

n.

1 definition — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


n.

The author of the passages of the Old Testament, esp. those of the Hexateuch, in which God is styled Yahweh, or Jehovah; the author of the Yahwistic, or Jehovistic, Prophetic Document (J); also, the document itself.