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Yah•wist
Pronunciation: (yä'wist), [key]—
n.
a writer of the earliest major source of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Yahweh rather than Elohim.
Also,Yah•vistPronunciation: (yä'vist), [key] Jahvist, Jahwist. Cf.
Elohist. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.