Demon vs. Yahweh — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Demon and Yahweh
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Demon
A demon is a supernatural being, typically associated with evil, prevalent historically in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies, anime, and television series. In Ancient Near Eastern religions and in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered a harmful spiritual entity which may cause demonic possession, calling for an exorcism.
Yahweh
Yahweh was the national god of Ancient Israel. His origins reach at least to the early Iron Age and likely to the Late Bronze Age.
Demon
An evil supernatural being; a devil.
Yahweh
A name for God thought to represent the original pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton among the ancient Hebrews.
Demon
A persistently tormenting person, force, or passion
The demon of drug addiction.
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Yahweh
A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah in the Bible; - used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or Yahwe is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars.
Demon
One who is extremely zealous, skillful, or diligent
Worked away like a demon.
A real demon at math.
Yahweh
A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
Demon
Variant of daimon.
Demon
An evil supernatural spirit.
Demon
An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
Demon
A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
Demon
A very wicked or malevolent person; also in weakened sense a mischievous person, especially a child.
Demon
A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.
Demon
(in plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
Demon
A neutral supernatural spirit.
Demon
A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
Demon
(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
Demon
A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
Demon
A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
Demon
Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
He’s a demon at the card tables.
Demon
(card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
Demon
Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
Demon
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human.
Demon
One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.
Demon
An evil spirit; a devil.
That same demon that hath gulled thee thus.
Demon
One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
Demon
A cruel wicked and inhuman person
Demon
Someone extremely diligent or skillful;
He worked like a demon to finish the job on time
She's a demon at math
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