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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Vadim Cherny <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH pronunciation
  • Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 20:39:41 +0100

On 02/08/2005 20:31, Vadim Cherny wrote:

...

... True, Greeks generally omit he, but, as I wrote to Peter, that
happens in the words that have other consonants. ...

Not only in such words. Remember King Jehu, who in Greek becomes EIOU,
IHOU or IOU.


But he is not omitted at all in these examples. It became iota or epsilon
that is sometimes assimilated into o, making Iou.


No, EI is a unit representing the first vowel of Yehu, like the eta in IHOU.

Iao, on the contrary, has nothing for the first he if alpha is for schwa. If
alpha is for he, as I suggest, then the word is not the verb. In the verb
ihie, Greeks would not hear he as alpha, but as epsilon if light or perhaps
as chi if heavily guttural.


Greeks would hear he as a consonant, not a vowel, because it is a consonant. But they had no way of representing it in their script, so they omitted it. Or perhaps they simply heard nothing. But they didn't hear it as a vowel, and never transcribed it as a vowel.

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Peter Kirk
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