JAO, or Jave, or Jabe. These are diminutives or abridgements of Jehovah, the incommunicable name of God, the name with four letters, which the Hebrews out of respect, or rather superstition, do not venture to pronounce. See JEHOVAH. The Samaritans pronounce Javi or Jabi1 after the manner of the Greeks, who pronounce B like a V consonant.
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Ἰαυέ vel Ἰαυέ vel Ἰαβέ, vel Ἰάω. Hebr. יהוהVide Epiphan. Hæres. 40. Theodoret. qu. 15. in Exod. ↩