Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

John:

My answer is sort of thinking out loud.

So you have had one year of basic Hebrew? How much of the Tenakh (Hebrew Old 
Testament) have you read in Hebrew? You are reading it through cover to 
cover, aren’t you? Like you, I had only one year of basic Biblical Hebrew, 
that’s why it took me four years to read Tenakh the first time cover to 
cover. So you are doing the same, right?

The stated “etymology” of a name may not be from the root we expect. For 
example, the popular understanding of the name “Samuel” has it connected with 
$M( “to listen” because Hannah his mother asked for him (1 Sam. 1:20). But 
once we remove those pesky dots, the root more closely fits the root $YM “to 
place” so that the name Samuel has the meaning of “God placed him”.

Similarly, there is attestation of the root HWH, mostly in the form of its 
derivitive nouns. In the negative sense, it has the meaning of rumor, though 
that may also be positive. So could the etymology of the name YHWH have the 
concept of the God who communicates with people? HWH seems to have the 
meaning of “to spread a rumor, to communicate”.

Thus it appears that YHWH comes from a Qal root.

Yours, Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John D Robinett" <jrobinett1 AT wi.rr.com>

> Shalom,
> 
> I am stundying the E and J relations in the Pentatauch.  JOhn Day made a
> statement in regards to yhwh being qal rather than Cross's opnion that it is
> causitive (hifil).  He states that hwh is not attested in the Hifil in
> Hebrew, unlike in Syriac.  I have a basic (1 year) of Biblical Hebrew, and
> just need to better understand this statement.  WHat i think he is saying is
> that hwh does not exist in the hifil in Hebrew.  Can someone verify or
> assist me in this?  I know it is basic, but understanding that staement
> fully is very important to continuing.  Day uses Ex 3:14 as his proof of
> yhwh being qal.
> 
> Thanks
> John D Robinett
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