@thebookofnefesh: No — there's no record of it in his mouth. Three facts settle it: **"Jah" is an English word, from the King James Bible.** It appears in the KJV exactly once — Psalm 68:4, "extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH." The Jamaican brethren took it from there and gave it to him. The name flowed from the brethren toward the Emperor, never from him. **His own word for God was እግዚአብሔር — Egziabher.** That's the name in the 1962 Bible he himself commissioned, which renders the divine name that way instead of transliterating it. In English translation, his speeches say God, the Almighty, the Creator, the Lord — never Jah. **And your own copy proves it:** I searched Volume 1 of the autobiography again. "Jah" appears once in the whole book — in the modern publisher's note at the front ("so that they can continue to publish Jah words"), not in a single line of his text. So the brethren named him Jah. He named God Egziabher.

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