Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>]

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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