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yᵊhōwā šāmmā יְהֹוָה שָׁמָּה ‘YHWH/Yahweh-shammah’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from yᵊhōwā יְהֹוָה ‘YHWH/Lord’ and šām שָׁם ‘there’ with directive enclitic
Roots: יהווה שׁם

yᵊhōwā šāmmā pr n loc
Jehovah-shammah = "Jehovah is there"
1) a symbolic name for Jerusalem

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2014 — 2026 Institute for Biblical Content. Biblical Hebrew for linguists: a multilingual analytical biblical Hebrew lexicon.
Editorial Lead of the English section: M. Hardy (ENS, IBC).
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