Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

          There is Akkadian evidence for the pronounciation of  such 
theophoric PNs including Yehoyakhin  ( really a variaton of the name 
discussed). It reads:  " ia -' - u' - kin "    cf. ANET 2 , p. 308. This was 
published some time ago, so there may be more up-to-date readings.
   
    Here the Waw serves already as a vowel. But one should keep in mind that 
this was written by an Akkadian scribe.
   
    Uri
   
   I stayed out of the last round on the pronunciation of God's name, and I 
will this time as well. I'll just say that I assume that the Waw in YHWH was 
consonantal, and later shifted to a vowel sound.

Yigal
   
   





                
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Theophoric name: Y:HOWYFQIYM
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On 03/01/2006 20:54, David P Donnelly wrote:

>Peter Kirk asks:
>
>  
>
>In that case, where did the long O sound come from? 
>This would not be inserted for purely phonetic reasons. 
>It is surely derived from the W in YHWH, 
>perhaps via an intermediate form in which the W was consonantal 
>e.g. Yahweyaqim.
>  
>
>
>I hope my next question is not too dumb.
>
>Is the prefix "YFH." compounded with "YFQIYM" 
>by the insertion of a "holem waw" between "YFH." and "YFQIYM".
>
>If it is,  the "O" sound is simply the sound of the "holem waw" being
>used in the compounding process.
>
>The "O" sound would not be derived from the "W" in "YHWH",
>it would be derived from the "holem waw" introduced in the compounding
>process.
>
>  
>
My point was that the "o" sound cannot come from the compounding 
process. In English we sometimes insert "o" when meking compounds, 
especially before Greek endings like "-logy", "-scope" etc. (in fact the 
"o" was originally a Greek ending), but I don't think this is ever done 
in Hebrew. It is much more likely that names like Yehoyaqim are derved 
from the full form of YHWH prefixed to a word, with the final he (a 
mater lectionis) dropped in the compounding process. At some point the 
vav, originally consonantal, came to be pronounced as a vowel. At least, 
this is what seems most likely to me.

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