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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
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PRONUNCIATION:  j
VARIANT FORMS: or J
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. j's or J's also js or Js
1. The tenth letter of the modern English alphabet. 2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter j. 3. The tenth in a series. 4. Something shaped like the letter J. 5. J The hypothetical traditional source of those portions of the Pentateuch in which God is referred to with the Tetragrammaton rather than as Elohim.
ETYMOLOGY:Sense 5, from J(ehovah).
 
 
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