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Jah is a shortened form of the name Yahweh (Jahwe) or Jehovah. The term Hallelujah means "Praise Jah".


It is transliterated "Jah" in a single instance (Psalm 68:4) in the King James Version of the Bible, and in many instances in New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures of Jehovah's Witnesses.


It is the name commonly used for God in the religious movement of Rastafarianism.


Some authors, particularly Burning Spear use for this purpose a term This Man.


The word Jah-Man is used for one Rastafarian among them.


Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is known as the personification of Jah.

Jah is also an alternative spelling of the name of the Egyptian deity "Joh".

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