Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ken Smith" <kens AT 180solutions.com>]

It is "vav" (or "waw", depending on which pronunciation scheme you use).
But the usual English transliteration of it is "W", which is supposedly
also the case in the transliteration scheme which b-Hebrew uses
(http://www.ibiblio.org/bhebrew/).  Perhaps because it can also function
as a "vowel letter", there is a certain attraction to "W" because of the
Greek Omega, which looks like and is also frequently transliterated with
a W.

Ken Smith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Hill [mailto:bhebrew AT hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 5:54 AM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: RE: Curious abut "G-d"
> 
> Wouldn't the letters of the Tetragrammaton be YHVH, not YHWH? The
third
> letter is for 'vav' if I'm not mistaken, right?
> 
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