Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

The Y in Yisrael most certainly pronounced by all speakers of Hebrew. The
reason it dropped from the "English" form, is that Greek does not have a Y
sound, so that in the Greek translation the Yod was replaced by Iota. The
same is true for a lot of other words, e.g. the Xeth in Xawwah, who became
"Eva" or "Eve".

Yigal
----- Original Message -----
From: "David P Donnelly" <davedonnelly1 AT juno.com>
To: <06peterson AT cua.edu>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Is the yod in "Yisrael" a Hebrew vowel letter?


> Trevor Peterson said:
>
> >>>
> If this yod were a vowel letter, it could not be  followed by a vowel.
> >>>
>
> Dave says:
>
> Is the "Y" sound of "Yisrael" pronounced by Hebrew speaking persons,
> who live in the country that English speaking persons refer to as Israel?
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:21:59 -0500 Trevor Peterson <06peterson AT cua.edu>
> writes:
> > David P Donnelly wrote:
> > >
> > > Is the yod in "Yisrael"
> > > [yod-Hireq-Sin-Shewa-Resh-Qamets-Aleph-Tsere-Lamedh]
> > > a Hebrew vowel letter?
> >
> > No. The only vowel letter that ever appears word-initially is the
> > u-form
> > of the conjunction. If this yod were a vowel letter, it could not be
> >
> > followed by a vowel.
> >
> > Trevor Peterson
> > CUA/Semitics
> >
> >
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