Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>]

>An interesting interpretation, but I don't think it stands up.  Each
>reference that you offer in which the Targums reference "the word of the
>Lord" is a translation of the Tetragrammaton.  The the Word or Name of the
>Lord was too holy to pronounce and may well have been translated with the
>euphemistic "word of the Lord", just as today it is translated "Adonai" or
>in the Stone translation "Hashem".

Actually I have seen in various places the the use of 'memra' there was as
a ephemism to avoid anthropomorphisms. (Also the word memra does not mean
the same as 'word' or logos. It is more like 'speach'. word would be millah.)