Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Joel Stucki" <joel AT stucki.ws>]

On 8/8/06, Larry Baden <llbaden AT sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have read (the source escapes me at present) that the "hu" suffix was used
> only in the Northern Kingdom, and not the south. Can anyone address whether
> that may be true? Was it a dialect issue?
>
> Larry Baden
> St. Louis, MO 63119
The name Isaiah kind of throws this off. He was a southerner with no
apparent ties to the northern kingdom and his name appears alternately
as Yeshayahu and Yeshayah. Hezekiah's name does the same. Seems like
one might be a more formal name but that's just a guess.

Joel Stucki