Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jack Kilmon <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

yahua'sef wrote:
> 
> Shalom Alaikhem,
> 
> I have been having a conversation with a brother named Moshe on this list,
> and I'd like to get everyone else's opinions on this subject(I am pasting
> some of my comments here from our private emails). Could anyone share
> their views on how right/wrong off I am in my assertions?
> 
> I was always taught that there existed no such name as "Yahweh" since that
> is obviously an anglicized version of the ancient Hebrew
> Tetragrammaton(YHWH) and an incorrect transliteration.
> 
> There is no "W" sound in archaic hebrew (which the scriptures were written
> in)  like we have in english.  The "W" is just what you say it is a
> "double U"  So the original pronunciation of the letter is "OOH or UU" not
> "WAH" as we say in english.  So it is not YAHWEH, but YAHU/YAHOO/YAHUUE or
> YAOHU/YAHUWA, at least as I have been taught.
> 
> And that no matter which way you spell it the pronunciation is still the
> same "YAHU"  not "YAHWEH pronounced "YAH-WAY". Even if someone did not
> want to go into the phonetics of it all, YAHWEH literally does not make
> sense. "YAH" in hebrew means "be, exist, is" "WEH" in modern hebrew means
> "AND". So if you read YAHWEH (hebrew like arabic and aramaic is read from
> right to left) it would give you the meaning "AND IS, AND EXIST, or AND
> BE." To break down YAHU you would have "YAH" which means "be, is, and
> exist" and "HU" which in archaic hebrew is a derivative of "HUD" which
> means "ONE"  So a literal translation would be " The ONE IS, THE ONE
> EXIST, THE ONE BE"
> 
> PSALMS 68:4, EX 6:3, and EX 3:15 all use the name "YAOHU" or "YAHU" and it
> would not make any sense to insert "YAHWEH" into those passages. Many of
> the prophets(Nevi'um) had the name of YAHU in their title also, which
> would make their names(archaic Hebrew names):
> 
> ISIAH - YASHAYAHU          JOEL - YAHUUL          NEHEMIAH - NACHUNYAHU
>  JEREMIAH - YIRMEYAHU       NAHUM - NAHUMYAHU      HEZIKIAH - HEZEKAYAHU
>  MICIAH - MIKAYAHU          ELIJAH - ULIYAHU       JEHOSHAPHAT-
> YAHUSHAPHAT
>  ZEPHANIAH - TSEPHANYAHU    SOLOMON - YADIDYAHU
>  MATTHEW - MATTANYAHU       HOSHEA - HOSHEAYAHU
>  OBADIAH - OBADYAHU         JUDAH  -  YAHUDAH
>  JOSHUA - YAHUSHUA          JOSEPH - YAHUSEPH
>  ZECHARIAH - ZAKARYAHU      JOHN   -  YAHUKANANV
>  JOSHUA - YAHUSHUA          JOSEPH - YAHUSEPH
>  ZECHARIAH - ZAKARYAHU      JOHN   -  YAHUKANAN
> 
> What does the list think?

There is much that can be corrected here but I will have to get to it
when I
return (going fishing).  I will address "Joseph" since that is my name.
the JO- of Joseph is NOT a theophoric and therefore not "YAHU-sef."
ywsf is the fut. of ysf (to add or augment) and therefore "Let him add."

Jack
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