יָהּ50 proper name, of deity contracted from יהוה, first appears in early poems; [Exod 15:2] עָזִי וְזִמְרָת יָהּ My strength and song is Yah (cited [Isa 12:2]; [Ps 118:14]), compare the poetic extract יָד עַל כֵּס יָהּ = hand to the throne of Yah [Exod 17:16] (E), the song of Hezekiah [Isa 38:11] (repeated by dittography), (א)שׁ להבת יה (so read in preference to the ᵑ0 שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָה) = flame of fire from Yah [Song 8:6] ביה יהוה [Isa 26:4] (והיה sustained by Aq and the rhythmical movement, unless it be a mistake for שׁמו, compare [Ps 68:5]), יה אלהים [Ps 68:19]. Elsewhere יָהּ is used only in late Psalms, especially in the Hallels, in the phrase הַלֲלוּיָֿהּ praise ye Yah [Ps 104:35]; [Ps 105:45]; [Ps 106:1]; [Ps 106:48]; [Ps 111:1]; [Ps 112:1]; [Ps 113:1]; [Ps 113:9]; [Ps 115:18]; [Ps 116:19]; [Ps 117:2]; [Ps 135:1]; [Ps 135:3]; [Ps 135:21]; [Ps 146:1]; [Ps 146:10]; [Ps 147:1]; [Ps 147:20]; [Ps 148:1]; [Ps 148:14]; [Ps 149:1]; [Ps 149:9]; [Ps 150:1]; [Ps 150:6], compare also יהלל יה [Ps 102:19] יהללו יה [Ps 115:17] תהלל יה [Ps 150:6] (see הלל); in variant reading other phrases [Ps 77:12]; [Ps 89:9]; [Ps 94:7]; [Ps 94:12]; [Ps 115:18]; [Ps 118:5] (twice in verse); [Ps 118:17]; [Ps 118:18]; [Ps 118:19]; [Ps 122:4]; [Ps 130:3]; [Ps 135:4].
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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