{"id":2,"date":"2024-05-15T22:13:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T22:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yahworks.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-06-02T19:47:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T19:47:27","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yahworks.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"Yah – a short form of the\u00a0tetragrammaton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jah<\/strong> or Yah<\/strong> (Hebrew<\/a>: \u05d9\u05b8\u05d4\u05bc\u200e, Y\u0101h<\/em>) is a short form of the tetragrammaton<\/a> \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 (YHWH), the personal name of God<\/a>: Yahweh<\/a>, which the ancient Israelites<\/a> used. The conventional Christian English pronunciation of Jah<\/em> is \/\u02c8d\u0292\u0251\u02d0\/<\/a>, even though the letter J<\/a> here transliterates the palatal approximant<\/a> (Hebrew \u05d9 Yodh<\/a>). The spelling Yah<\/em> is designed to make the pronunciation \/\u02c8j\u0251\u02d0\/<\/a> explicit in an English-language context (see also romanization of Hebrew<\/a>), especially for Christians who may not use Hebrew regularly during prayer and study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>“, a phrase that continues to be employed by Jews and Christians to give praise to Yahweh.\u00a0In the Christian\u00a0King James Version<\/a>\u00a0(1611) there is a single instance of\u00a0JAH<\/em>\u00a0(capitalized), in\u00a0Psalm 68<\/a>:4.\u00a0An American Translation<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1939) and the\u00a0New King James Version<\/a>[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0“NKJV” (1982) follows KJV in using\u00a0Yah<\/em>\u00a0in this verse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While pronouncing the tetragrammaton is forbidden for Jews, articulating “Jah”\/”Yah” is allowed, but is usually confined to prayer and study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name\u00a0Jah<\/em>\u00a0is frequently employed by adherents of\u00a0Rastafari<\/a>\u00a0to refer to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Etymology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Main article: Yahweh<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name of the\u00a0national god<\/a>\u00a0of the kingdoms of\u00a0Israel (Samaria)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Judah<\/a>\u00a0is written in the Hebrew Bible as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 (YHWH<\/a>), which modern scholars often render as\u00a0Yahweh<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0The short form\u00a0Jah\/Yah<\/em>, appears in Exodus 15:2 and 17:16, Psalm 89:9, (arguably, by\u00a0emendation<\/a>) Song of Songs 8:6,\u00a0as well as in the phrase\u00a0Hallelujah<\/a><\/em>. The name of Yahweh is also incorporated into several\u00a0theophoric names<\/a>, however, in almost all cases the Hebrew name itself uses\u00a0-y\u0101h\u016b<\/em>, not\u00a0-y\u0101h<\/em>. This does not preclude the translation of several\u00a0-y\u0101h\u016b<\/em>\u00a0names without the added\u00a0\u016b<\/em>, such as\u00a0Elijah<\/a>\u00a0(\u02be\u0112l\u012byy\u0101h\u016b<\/em>) or\u00a0Hezekiah<\/a>\u00a0(H\u0331\u012bz\u0259q\u012byyah\u016b<\/em>), or the existence of several Hebrew names which\u00a0do<\/em>\u00a0use the\u00a0-y\u0101h<\/em>\u00a0form, such as\u00a0Jedidjah<\/a>,\u00a0Malchijah<\/a>, and\u00a0Adonijah<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jah or Yah (Hebrew: \u05d9\u05b8\u05d4\u05bc\u200e, Y\u0101h) is a short form of the tetragrammaton \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 (YHWH), the personal name of God: Yahweh, which the ancient Israelites used. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yahworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yahworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yahworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yahworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yahworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yahworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/yahworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yahworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}