Jah

Jah or Yah (Hebrew: יהּ Yahu) is a short form of Yahweh (in consonantal spelling YHWH Hebrew: יהוה, called the Tetragrammaton), the proper name of God in the Hebrew Bible. This short form of the name occurs 50 times in the text of the Hebrew Bible, of which 24 form part of the phrase “Hallelujah”.

In an English-language context, the name Jah is now most commonly associated with the Rastafari. It is otherwise mostly limited to the phrase Hallelujah and theophoric names such as Elijah. In the King James Version (1611) there is only a single instance of JAH (capitalised) in only one instance, in Psalms 68:4. An American Translation (1939) follows KJV in using Yah in this verse. The conventional English pronunciation of Jah is /ˈdʒɑː/, even though the letter J here transliterates the palatal approximant (Hebrew Yodh). The spelling Yah is designed to make the pronunciation /ˈjɑː/ explicit in an English-language context (see also romanization of Hebrew).

Also short for the name Jehovah.

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Keywords: Jah, Jahweh, Yahweh, YHWH, Yah, Jehovah, Hallelu-jah, Hallelujah, Halelujah, Name of God, God's name, God, Deity

Bible reference(s): Exod. 15:2, Exod. 17:16, Ps. 68:4, Ps. 68:18, Ps. 77:11, Ps. 89:8, Ps. 94:7, Ps. 94:12, Ps. 102:18, Ps. 104:35, Ps. 105:45, Ps. 106:1, Ps. 106:48, Ps. 111:1, Ps. 112:1, Ps. 113:1, Ps. 113:9, Ps. 115:17, Ps. 115:18, Ps. 116:19, Ps. 117:2, Ps. 118:5, Ps. 118:14, Ps. 118:17, Ps. 118:18, Ps. 118:19, Ps. 122:4, Ps. 130:3, Ps. 135:1, Ps. 135:3, Ps. 135:4, Ps. 135:21, Ps. 146:1, Ps. 146:10, Ps. 147:1, Ps. 147:20, Ps. 148:1, Ps. 148:14, Ps. 149:1, Ps. 149:9, Ps. 150:1, Ps. 150:6, Isa. 12:2, Isa. 26:4, Isa. 38:11

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