[b-hebrew] consonant vowel order of )EHYEH & YAHWEH

David P Donnelly davedonnelly1 at juno.com
Tue Sep 27 18:55:41 EDT 2005


Read, James C K0434995 at kingston.ac.uk 
Mon Sep 26 19:39:31 EDT 2005 wrote:
>>>
However, try as I might 
I just cannot humanly pronounce this word 
with such syllabic separations 
without inserting a vocal schwa between the two syllables:
>>>

According to b-hebrew transcription guidlines,
the name you are analyzing is transcribed as "YaH:WeH"
I believe that the shewa between the two syllables is a silent shewa,
[a syllable divider], 
not a vocal shewa.

Page H. Kelly’s "Biblical Hebrew , An Introductory Grammar" says
on page 13:
>>>
The silent shewa, on the other hand, only stands beneath a consonant that
ends a syllable.
The silent shewa, therefore may also be referred to as a syllable
divider.
>>> 
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/264290/YaHWeHdissected.JPG
At the link above you will find an image of my dissection of "YaH:WeH".
Hopefully it is correct.
An icon which appears at the lower right of the image,
allows you to enlarge the image.

Dave Donnelly


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