Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jeremy Lupton" <torah_neophyte AT hotmail.com>]

Philip,
Maybe "shem hamephorash hashem" could be understood if "shem" is understood 
as "name of".

Then maybe it means "(the) name of the mephorash HaShem" (the adjective 
mephorash being used as a substantive), or else "the mephorash name of 
HaShem".  Don't be surprised if I'm wrong, I only know a little Hebrew.


Philip Engmann wrote:
"Whenever, therefore, this nomen tetragrammaton occurred in the sacred
text, (shem hameporash hashem)[1]  they were accustomed to substitute
for it Adonai."[2]

The above is a quote from Gesenius's OT lexicon.[3]

I find it difficult to translate and interpret the phrase, shem
hameporash hashem.

The best I can do is literally, "name, the distinct name", or "name, the
holy name".

Philip




 _____

[1] Hameporash means the distinct or the holy and it is a pual singular
masculine participle derived from the verb,  wr!po.  [Benjamin Davidson,
The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, (Grand Rapids, Michigan:
Zondervan Publishing House), 1970. Pages 507 and 635].

[2] H. W. F. Gesenius, Gesenius's Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old
Testament, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1979). Page 337.

[3] H. W. F. Gesenius, Gesenius's Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old
Testament, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1979). Page 337.








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