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  • From: "Trevor & Julie Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Re:hwh in Hifil
  • Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:00:17 -0400

Peter wrote:

> Only HYH is listed as using I, and this
> could be a
> deliberate change to avoid saying something too similar to the divine
> name;

This is a real possibility. Jewish Standard Literary Aramaic seems to do
something very similar, when it uses lhwh for the 3ms impf. (The
l-preformative shows up in other Aramaic dialects, but here it is not a
regular pattern.)

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics





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