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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Theophoric Name: Y:HOWYFQIYM
  • Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:00:29 -0600

Dear Karl,

Bernhard Lang, Professor of Old Testament and religious studies at the universities
of St. Andrews and Paderborn, provides the following material about the name Yahu:
http://www.bibletopics.com/biblestudy/154.htm

Yahu

An alternative spelling and pronunciation of Yahweh, found (spelled YHW) on a circa 800 B.C.E. ostracon from Kuntillet Ajrud and (spelled YHW and YHH) in the documents written by Aramaic-speaking fifth-century B.C.E. Jews living in Elephantine in Egypt. The form Yahu is also used in biblical theophoric names (names that include the name of a god) like Yeho-natan (Jonathan; Judges 18:30) and Yesha-yahu (Isaiah). Although most scholars take Yahu to be a short form of Yahweh, it might also be an earlier form of the divine name.3

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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