Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Alexander Oldernes <alexander AT oldernes.no>]

> the standalone Yah and the suffixed Yahu seems to
> conclusively prove and original 'a' in the first
> syllable.

"Yahu" is "Yah" + "hu"
Eliyah means "my God is Yah", while Eliyahu means "my God is Yah himself".

YH may be the first and the last letter of YHWH - then it would prove an 'a' 
in the last syllable.
That make sense because when the three first letters are used in theophoric 
names, they are written "Yeho".


Alexander Oldernes
Norway


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JAMES CHRISTIAN READ" <JCR128 AT student.apu.ac.uk>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] theophoric prefixes (YH~YHW)


> Yigal wrote:
> Dear Gene,
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> The usual form in prefixes is Yo or Yeho, of which there are many 
> examples:
> Yehoshua (Joshua), Yehonatan (Jonathan), Yehoram/Yoram (Joram) and so on.
>
> Yigal Levin
> END QUOTE
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> I think the schewa in Yeho prefixes can only best be
> attributed to vowel reduction when the syllable is far
> removed from the stressed syllable. This combined with
> the standalone Yah and the suffixed Yahu seems to
> conclusively prove and original 'a' in the first
> syllable. However, in a trisyllabic version of the name the first syllable 
> would have been two syllables back
> from the stressed syllable and therefore a vowel
> reduced first syllable would be phonetically plausible.
> In this case the mono-, bi- and tri-syllabic forms
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> Yah
> Yahuw
> Yehow?h (most probably Yehowah or possibly Yehoweh)
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> James C. Read
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> aI think the schewa in Yeho prefixes can only best be
> attributed to vowel reduction when the syllable is far
> removed from the stressed syllable. This combined with
> the standalone Yah and the suffixed Yahu seems to
> conclusively prove and original 'a' in the first
> syllable. However, in a trisyllabic version of the name the first syllable 
> would have been two syllables back
> from the stressed syllable and therefore a vowel
> reduced first syllable would be phonetically plausible.
> In this case the mono-, bi- and tri-syllabic forms
> would be:
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> Yah
> Yahuw
> Yehow?h (most probably Yehowah or possibly Yehoweh)
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> James C. Read
> UK
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