Jah
Almighty in reggae
Jah is a name for God in Rastafarian belief, derived from the Hebrew name Yahweh.
Rastafarians use Jah as the central term for the divine, often in phrases like Jah bless or Jah love.
The word appears frequently in reggae music: Jah will provide.
Outside Rastafarian contexts, Jah signals Caribbean or reggae culture.
Jamaican movement honoring Ethiopian divinity
- reggaeJamaican offbeat music style
- dreadlocksRopelike matted hair strands
- ZionBiblical promised homeland
- BabylonAncient Mesopotamian capital
Haile Selassie · Bob Marley · repatriation · Ethiopia · ganja · sacrament · chant · roots
Rastafari
Jamaican movement honoring Ethiopian divinity
- reggaeJamaican offbeat music style
- dreadlocksRopelike matted hair strands
- ZionBiblical promised homeland
Babylon · Haile Selassie · Bob Marley · repatriation · Ethiopia · ganja · sacrament · chant · roots · reasoning
God
Supreme spiritual authority
divine · eternal · omnipotent · worship · praise · prayer · righteousness · salvation · holy · sacred
Jahatheism
Rejection of deities
mammon · godlessness · secularism · materialism · unbelief
JahSatan
Judeo-Christian arch-enemy of God
Lucifer · Beelzebub · evil spirits · demons · darkness
JahBabylon
Ancient Mesopotamian capital
wickedness · colonialism · imperial power · Western imperialism · imperialism