Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 22/07/2005 17:44, Alexander Oldernes wrote:

> ...
>
> When I see name Jehudah, YHWDH, I see that the difference from the 
> tetragrammaton is the Daleth.
> If I remove the Daleth from YeHUDaH, and keep the vowel "a", I get YeHUaH / 
> YeHUWaH.
>
> ...my personal logic tells me that the pronunciation may not be very 
> different from Jehudah.
>  

The problem with your personal logic is that you can't simply leave a 
consonant out of a Hebrew word and expect the surrounding vowels to be 
unaffected.

> ( One interesting detail is the 3rd person masculine HaWaH in Ecclesiastes 
> 11:3, which is pronounced YeHU[a] )
>  

This is an odd form. But it does not finish with an "a" vowel, but with 
an alef which was a glottal stop - although perhaps silent at the end of 
a word here. And it has nothing to do with the divine name.

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Peter Kirk
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