Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>]

They are two different names.

Rashi says that when G-d told Moshe His name was Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, 
He used "Ehyeh" twice, because He was telling him to tell the people 
that - just as He is with them in this difficult time, He will be 
with them also in future tribulations.  This is a vague recollection, 
I am too tired to look it up exactly, now...

And we had this conversation before, on this list - that Ehyeh Asher 
Ehyeh is future, and I don't remember why people said they translated 
it as present, but all the translations I have, as well as all of 
Chazal who comment on this Name, refer to it as future.

I don't know why people can't just accept that they are two of G-d's 
many Names, and why they need, instead, to say they are conjugations 
of a verb.  They are used in the Torah as Names, and, after all, G-d 
can name Himself anything He pleases...  That these two have the 
letters of the verb "to be" in them, is also not mysterious, since 
G-d is Existence itself.

Shoshanna



Shoshanna,

How do you relate YHWH with the AHYH in the previous verses of Exodus?

Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net> wrote:

Yes, that makes a difference

I think that the reason that this Name reminds one of the verb "to
be", is because it is referring to the fact that G-d exists in the
past, in the present, and in the future, simultaneously.

Shoshanna Walker



Shoshanna,

I should have said "when HWH is used as a verb." Sorry.

I was assuming that the name YHWH was a reflection of the third
person singular verb form. This seems to be a possibility, correct?

John C. Wilking



Shoshanna Walker wrote:


Of course I know that it is a name and not a verb or a noun, but someone on
this list declared that it was used as a verb, I wanted him to cite where he
thought it was used as a verb.

Shoshanna


> Shoshanna,
>
>
>
> YHWH is not a verb and not a noun, it is a personal name. The entire
> "morphological" argument hinges on the, in my opinion undecidable,
question
> as to whether Y and H are radicals or personal pronouns.
>
>
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shoshanna Walker"
> To: ;
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:39 AM
> Subject: [b-hebrew] ASKING AGAIN Re: YHWH
>
>
> >I realize that my posts re G-d's authorship of the Torah, get ignored
> > here, but this is a real question that I am asking: Can - at least -
> > the person who claimed that YHWH is used as a verb - answer me,
> > please! I sincerely have no recollection of that.
> >
> > Shoshanna
> >
> >
> > When/where is it used as a verb?
> >
> > Shoshanna
> >
> >
> >
> > Ted,
> >
> > It's not different syntax, it's different morphology and I realize
> > that. But I'm not sure that we know that the verbal aspect is
> > emphasized. Hebrew doesn't seem to have a standard copula like Greek
> > and when YHWH is used as a verb it often is just a helping verb.
> >
> > John C. Wilking
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