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[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  It was Alt who first pointed out that the emergence of Yahwistic names in 
the biblical onomasticon started with Moses. If memory serves, he included 
Yokebed as the first of such  names. That this indeeed is a Yahwistic name, 
as mentioned by Yigal, has been recognized by many.
   
     Uri Hurwitz
   
   (Actually, I think that
Yokebed - "YW is glory", might also be Yahwistic).

Yigal Levin


       
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Pere,

First of all I want to return to my insistence that what you  
persistently call "prefixes" and "suffixes" are personal pronouns. I  
will concede the obvious fact, though, that over time the process of  
grammaticalization made the personal pronouns conventionally indicate  
tense according to their position in the word.
I can hardly imagine the [very] ancients, for which a name was so  
full of significance, wasting a part of it on mere grammatical  
niceties. Really, is YI-CXAQ 'he will laugh'? And if so when will he  
do it, during his entire lifetime? And about what? I am not sure of  
its significance and implication but I am struck by the M-CAXEQ of  
Genesis 21:9 and Genesis 26:6. YI-CXAQ M-CAXEQ what is this?.
Then, what are this YI- and YO- in YOSEP, Genesis 30:24, YI$MA(EL,  
Genesis 16:11, YISRAEL, Genesis 32:29, and YISSAKAR, Genesis 30:18? I  
doubt that this YI- is HI), 'he', for the bearer of the name.
If YOKEBED is YHO-KEBED, as correctly pointed out to us by Yigal [YI- 
G)AL] and Uri, then why not YOSEP = YHO-SEP?
I tend to think that the -HA- added to )ABRAM, Genesis 17:5, and the - 
AH added to SARAIY, Genesis 17:15, are also in honor of a holy name.  
While at it I also notice the resemblance of )ABRAM and (AMRAM,  
Exodus 6:18.
I suspect that the -YA- of the name MIRYAM, Exodus, 15-20, is also of  
this nature. Otherwise what is the meaning of this curious name MIRYAM?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:40 AM, <pporta AT oham.net> <pporta AT oham.net> wrote:

>> I feel uneasy with the interpretation of the -YAMIN part of the name
>> BINYAMIN as the right hand side [namely the YEMENITE]. I tend to
>> think that YAMIN = YAH-)AMIN, with YA =YAH being a reference to the
>> God of the Hebrews.
>> After all both his father YA-(AKOB and his
>> grandfather YI-CXAQ had such a reference in their names, methinks.
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> _____________
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> Do you really think that the Y of YA-(AKOB and the Y of YI-CXAQ are  
> a reference to the name of Israel's God?
>
> Aren't they a mere prefix to show the imperfective or future verb  
> tense, the same as other hundreds of samples in the Bible?
>
> Pere Porta
> Barcelona (Spain)
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