Jah
/dʒɑː
/ /jɑː /noun
The Rastafarian name of God.For Jah to be God, God cannot be a culturally specific desert god from the near east....
- The 32-year-old Jamaican-born gangster had grown dreadlocks and believed he had the Rastafarian God Jah on his side.
- Its tone is set at the film's very spiritual start: Rastafarian elders are playing hand drums in a ramshackle hut in the Jamaican countryside, smoking ganja and praising their god Jah.
Origin
Representing Hebrew Yāh, abbreviation of Yahweh. The current use was popularized in the mid 20th century.