Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>]

Peter wrote:
although plural in form, just like Elohim. But when referring to humans, 
adonay is plural "my masters", whereas adoni is singular "my master". 
This is quite regular: -i is the basic 1st person singular possessive 
suffix, but when added to a plural which would otherwise by -im, 
construct -ey, the suffixes contract together resulting in -ay.
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JCR: Yes!Ican see your point. However, the text clearly uses the 
tetragramatton here and it is clear that 
Abram called the messengers YHWH and this pattern of subtituting messengers 
for yhwh and vice versa is 
recurrent in the torah. Seeing as the text clearly adresses them as YHWH it 
seems pointless to argue that 
Abram was adressing them as sirs.

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