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[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  Harold,

  The other root, with the 'W',  was precisely what
 I pointed at, and the possibility that it represented
 an earlier form which was no longer intelligible to
 the author who used the standard verb of his time.

  I had no quarrel with your post, and in fact I
 quoted from it, for the sake of clarity, in my first
paragraph.

   Uri Hurwitz

  

 "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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