Biblical Hebrew Forum

["K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Gene:

That is my question too.

Why is it that when the name stands alone, the first heh is considered
a mater lectionis, while the waw a consonant? Why not the other way
around, that the heh is a consonant and the waw a mater lectionis? Is
that not what the theophoric element implies?

For my 2¢, was the original pronunciation akin to "Ya ho' he"?

Karl W. Randolph.

On 8/5/06, Gene Gardner <g_gardner1234 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
>                     The question that I have is this. If all of the Biblical 
> names with a theophoric element incorporated, have Yah or Yahu as the suffix, 
> and Yeho or the truncated form of Yo as a prefix, then how does Yahweh fit 
> into this pattern?