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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Biblical Hebrew
  • Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:08:59 -0500

Uri,

The explanation of the meaning YHWH in verse 14 is:
"I AM ('ehyeh) WHAT I AM ('ehyeh)", ... ('ehyeh) I AM
has sent me to you." These verbs are all given in the
standard biblical verb HYH for 'to be' . The biblical
commentator could have used the verb HWH here, but
did not.

One possible explanation is that when the need arose
to understand the deity's name, its root HWH has become
archaic, and the author used the current verb HYH to
explain it.

Thus an argument can be made that by the time the
explanation was given, the original meaning had been
forgotten. But this is a different subject.

HH: How are you saying anything different than what I said, except that I did not mention another root?

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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