Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 15/08/2005 23:03, Awohili AT aol.com wrote:

> Since what you are reading is a sentence, "YHWH will see (or,  provide),"  
> YHWH in the Masoretic text will have the usual Masoretic  pointing.  If it 
> survived as a place name from ancient times, no doubt YHWH  would be unpointed, 
> leaving no more clues as to its pronunciation than do other  ancient artifacts 
> with the name.
>  

Well, in principle the name could have been preserved in an ancient 
translation into a language which has vowels. But the Greek LXX has 
KURIOS EIDEN, and the Vulgate has Dominus videt, both meaning "the Lord 
sees/saw", so the divine name is not transcribed in either case. There 
may be other translations and transcriptions which could be examined, 
e.g. Origen's Hexapla. But I am sure that if any of them had clear 
renderings of the divine name, they would be as well attested in the 
literature as those of Theodoret and Clement.

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Peter Kirk
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