Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 04/08/2005 14:12, Vadim Cherny wrote:

>  
>
> > Vadim, this is not true. If by "Jews" you mean people speaking from Jewish
> > tradition, then Jewish tradition does not have a vocalization of the
> > Tetragrammaton, and cosiders it forbidden to pronounce. And I know of no
> > Jewish source that understands the Tetragrammaton as anything but a proper
> > noun.
> >
> > That there are individual Jews, including perhaps some on this list, who
> > have concluded that YHWH is a verb and that it may have been vocalized in
> > one way or another, is their privelage. None of them speak for Jewish
> > tradition.
> >    
>
> I meant only common pronunciation, which corresponds to niphal. It is not
> the only one, but quite common.
>
>  
Which common pronunciation corresponds to Niphal? I have not heard 
anyone propose anything like the probable Niphal form Yehawe (in which 
the first vowel must be a full tsere, not a sheva).

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