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  • From: "yahua'sef" <gs02wmr AT panther.Gsu.EDU>
  • To: peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Re[2]: YHWH vs. Yahweh
  • Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:01:38 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG wrote:
> I discovered by chance that the following is not quite being fair to
> Joseph or whatever he is called. I was surprised to find the form

SHalom Peter Kirk.

I don't mean to sound rude, but could you please explain what you wrote in
...layman's terms? I am very interested to know what exactly you found
here!

Shalom.

Wondell M. Rachman

> BIYHOWS"P at Psalm 81:6, apparently from a theophoric variant Y:HOWS"P
> of the regular YOWS"P. (GKC 53q treats this as a variant form of
> hiphil, but I am not convinced). So we have a similar variation to
> that we recently discussed between Y:HOW$W.A( and Y"$W.A(, though with
> a different vowel. So it is at least possible that Y:HOWS"P was
> original and YOWS"P a contraction of it. In fact the original might
> have been Y:HOWYOS"P (as in the explanation in Genesis 30:23), by
> analogy with Y:HOWYFKIYN, another theophoric name with a hiphil
> jussive, or perhaps Y:HOWHOSIYP, by analogy with other Yeho- names
> which are mostly followed by a "perfect" form - both of these forms
> would naturally be shortened to Y:HOWS"P and then further to YOWS"P.
>
> Peter Kirk
>
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator
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> Subject: Re: YHWH vs. Yahweh
> Author: jkilmon AT historian.net at internet
> Date: 27/04/1999 23:48
>
>
> yahua'sef wrote:
> <snip>
>
> 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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