Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 28/09/2003 10:07, Trevor Peterson wrote:

> Liz wrote:
>
>  
>
> > The Greek 
> > transliteration OU is customarily read as the consonant W in 
> > the word Yahweh, but it could equally be read as the long ooo 
> > sound.
> >    
>
> But if it is /u/, then what is the next consonant? In Hebrew, you can't
> have two vowels in a row. Maybe we could suggest that it is both /u/ and
> /w/, but I can't think of an example where we get that combination. (I
> seem to remember getting a yod-dagesh representing a mater followed by a
> consonantal yod, but not with vav.) If that's not possible, then it
> seems to me that we don't have a valid form (unless the h starts the
> next syllable, but who's suggesting that?).
>  
Well, I can think of two possibly relevant examples. One is the rather 
odd form QWH (1Ki 10:28) or QW) (2Ch 1:16) which is represented in 
English translations as Kue, although pointed with sheva and tsere. The 
other is in fact an exception to the two vowels in a row rule, which I 
already mentioned, that we could have a furtive patah before he with mappiq.

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