Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On 1/15/07, Oun Kwon wrote:
> 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.

I would like to also comment regarding the source of this quote.  The
quote comes from a review of a book, which is intended to support the
readings of the King James Bible against modern translations.  The
following is apparently a full excerpt of the relevant chapter from the
book: http://tinyurl.com/yx73av (html)

I find myself at a loss to describe the methods and conclusions of
the said chapter.  It would have been best left unwritten, and none of
its claims (even supposedly quoted facts) can be trusted.

Yitzhak Sapir