Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>]

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