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  • From: George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] How to pronounce the English word Yahweh
  • Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:25:13 +1100

Actually, the Masoretes DID place the vowels of Adonai on the Tetragrammaton.
The initial vowel is a shewa. In the word Adonai, this has to be a composite
shewa (with patah), but it is still grammatically a shewa. The holem vowel
was usually not written, perhaps for reasons of piety (nothing above the name
of God), though there are a handful of instances where it is written,
seemingly offering the proof that the Mosoretes were indeed thinking of the
vowels of Adonai.

Occasionally, when the actual word Adonai precedes the Tetragrammaton, the
vowels of Elohim were inserted instead.


GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au





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