Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

In addition to David, there are several other people with similar names,
which do seem to preserve some theophoric element: DWDW (Dodo - Judg. 10:1);
DDY or DWDW in 2 Sam. 23:9, 1 Chr. 11:12 and 27:4; DWDWHW (Dodavahu) in 2
Chr. 20:37, and our own Elhanan's father, DWDW, in 2 Sam. 23:24 and 1 Chr.
11:26.

Yigal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
To: "Uri Hurwitz" <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] David or Elhanan?


> On 28/01/2005 16:00, Uri Hurwitz wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > */Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>/* wrote:
> >
> >     ...
> >     Doesn't it make sense to derive the name DWD (sometimes DWYD) from
> >     the
> >     well-attested root DWD/YDD "love", so that it is effectively a
> >     doublet
> >     of the common noun DWD (pronounced dod) "beloved, uncle"? I agree
> >     that
> >     this derivation is not certain, but it does seem to make sense.
> >
> >
> >
> >     ----In that case one would expect some a theophoric PN such as
> >     either * DWD)L  or
> >
> >        *)LDWD or the attested Yedidyah. ...
> >
>
> Well, maybe, but there are other attested cases of what were presumably
> originally theophoric names of this kind which have lost their
> theophoric elements. I can think immediately of Nathan, presumably an
> abbreviation of Nathan'el or Nathanyahu. There are many others. So why
> not David?
>
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