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Jah or Yah (Hebrew: יָהּ , Yāh) is a short form of the tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the personal name of God: Yahweh, which the ancient Israelites used. The conventional Christian English pronunciation of Jah is / ˈ dʒ ɑː / , even though the letter J here transliterates the palatal approximant (Hebrew י Yodh ).
The second part, Yah, is a shortened form of YHWH, and is a shortened form of his name "God, Jah, or Jehovah". [3] The name ceased to be pronounced in Second Temple Judaism, by the 3rd century BC due to religious beliefs. [15] The correct pronunciation is not known. However, it is sometimes rendered in non-Jewish sources as "Yahweh" or "Jehovah".
In Christianity, when the Tetragrammaton is vocalized, the forms Yahweh or Jehovah are used. [5] [147] Jah or Yah is an abbreviation of Jahweh/Yahweh, and often sees usage by Christians in the interjection "Hallelujah", meaning "Praise Jah", which is used to give God glory. [148]
[2] [3] [4] Jah or Yah is an abbreviation of Jahweh/Yahweh, and often sees usage by Christians in the interjection "Hallelujah", meaning "Praise Yah", which is used to give God glory. [5] In the New Testament the terms Theos, Kyrios and Patēr (πατήρ i.e. Father in Greek) are additionally used to reference God. [6] [1] [7]
Yahwism is the name given by modern scholars to the religion of ancient Israel and Judah. [1] An ancient Semitic religion of the Iron Age, Yahwism was essentially polytheistic and had a pantheon, with various gods and goddesses being worshipped by the Israelites. [2]
After the time of Solomon [63] and particularly after Jezebel's attempt to promote the worship of the Lord of Tyre Melqart, [62] however, the name became particularly associated with the Canaanite storm god Baʿal Haddu and was gradually avoided as a title for Yahweh. [63] Several names that included it were rewritten as bosheth ("shame"). [64]
The Sacred Scriptures Bethel Edition (SSBE) is a Sacred Name Bible which uses the names Yahweh and Yahshua in both the Old and New Testaments (Chamberlin p. 51-3). It was produced by Jacob O. Meyer, based on the American Standard Version of 1901 and it contains over 977 pages.
Yah, a shortened form of Yahweh. Levantine deities (especially the storm god, Hadad ) by the epithet baal , meaning lord . In later times, as the conflict between Yahwism and the more popular pagan practices became increasingly intense, these names were censored and baal was replaced with bosheth , meaning "shame".