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  • From: "AMK Judaica" <amkjudaica AT hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] w sound in Hebrew
  • Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:33:29 -0500


In the (Baladi?) Yemenite tradition, the letter is pronounced "w" and not "v." This is how you will hear it pronounced in their synagogues until today. Many scholar agree with this pronounciation (e.g., Murkoka).

From: "Oun Kwon" <kwonbbl AT gmail.com>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] w sound in Hebrew
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:38:20 -0500

Please clarify for me. Someone wrote:

There is no "w" in Hebrew. The so called waw to which so many
non-Hebraicists make reference is pronounced vav, and should, in fact,
be written that way, and usually is. Yahweh is not even a possible
pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.

Thanks for your help.

Oun Kwon.
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From: "Oun Kwon" <kwonbbl AT gmail.com>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] w sound in Hebrew
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:38:20 -0500

Please clarify for me. Someone wrote:

There is no "w" in Hebrew. The so called waw to which so many
non-Hebraicists make reference is pronounced vav, and should, in fact,
be written that way, and usually is. Yahweh is not even a possible
pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.

Thanks for your help.

Oun Kwon.
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