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Jah or Yah ((ヘブライ語:יהּ) ''Yahu'') is a short form of ''Yahweh'' (in consonantal spelling YHWH; (ヘブライ語:יהוה)), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible.〔(Abbreviated Tetragrammaton ) in the ''Jewish Encyclopedia''.〕 This short form of the name occurs 50 times in the text of the Hebrew Bible, of which 24 form part of the phrase ''Hallelu-jah''. 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 Authorized King James Version (1611) there is only a single instance of ''JAH'' (capitalised) in only one instance, in Psalm 68:4. ''An American Translation'' (1939) follows KJV in using ''Yah'' in this verse. The conventional English pronunciation of ''Jah'' is , even though the letter J here transliterates the palatal approximant (Hebrew Yodh). The spelling ''Yah'' is designed to make the pronunciation explicit in an English-language context (see also romanization of Hebrew). Also short for the name Jehovah. ==Hebrew names of God Yahweh and Yahu== (詳細はYahweh is a name of God in the Hebrew language. ''Yahu'' is a well-attested short form of the full or extended name ''Yahweh''. The short form is preserved primarily in theophoric names such as Elijah ("my god is Jah"), Malchijah ("my king is Jah"), and (Adonijah) "my lord is Jah", etc. as well as in the phrase ''Hallelujah''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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