jehovist

noun

1. Yahwist.

noun

1. another name for the Yahwist
2. a person who maintains that the name YHVH in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament was originally pronounced Jehovah

adjective

3. of or relating to the Yahwist source of the Pentateuch

n.

the presumed authnor or authors of the parts of the Hexateuch in which the divine name is written Yhwh (see Jehovah) + -ist. Opposed to the Elohist.