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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Alexander Oldernes <alexander AT oldernes.no>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] yhwh pronunciation
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 02:10:16 +0100

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

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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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