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  • From: "Joel Stucki" <joel AT stucki.ws>
  • To: "Larry Baden" <llbaden AT sbcglobal.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] theophoric prefixes (YH~YHW)
  • Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:52:58 -0700

On 8/8/06, Larry Baden <llbaden AT sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I have read (the source escapes me at present) that the "hu" suffix was used
only in the Northern Kingdom, and not the south. Can anyone address whether
that may be true? Was it a dialect issue?

Larry Baden
St. Louis, MO 63119

The name Isaiah kind of throws this off. He was a southerner with no
apparent ties to the northern kingdom and his name appears alternately
as Yeshayahu and Yeshayah. Hezekiah's name does the same. Seems like
one might be a more formal name but that's just a guess.

Joel Stucki




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