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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 13:37:13 -0500

Hi, Uri,
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.

You're right. I apologize for my dullness. Good reminder. The form of YHWH suggests that the original verb might have been HWH. Thank you. Brown-Driver-Briggs lists the divine name YHWH under the verb HWH. Under the verb HYH it says that HYH is a parallel form of HWH, and it notes that the Aramaic parallel of HYH is HW). It also mentions an Arabic cognate of HYH whose middle letter corresponds to Hebrew "waw." The Syriac cognate for HYH also has a middle letter corresponding to Hebrew "waw."

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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