Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>]

Dear James,

There are more possibilities. In the Tanakh we find YH and YHWH. The 
forms Yahu (or Yehu, Yaho, or Yeho) are based on the Elephantine 
papyri, and the name is written there as YHW. It is taken for granted 
that the last W is a vowel, but why could it  not be a consonant? And 
in that case, which vowels should we add? For example, the 2nd person 
singular, masculine personal pronoun is normally written as )TH, but 
it is also written as )T. The final H represents the vowel qamets, 
but we also assume a qamets below the T when the H i lacking. If this 
was the case with with the Elephantine YHW, how should we pronounce 
it? To look at the Greek transcription IAW is not conclusive, because 
the rough breathing (h) can only occur at the beginning of a word.


Best regards,

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo




> Hi,
>
> obviously Yah, Yeho and Yahu are indisputable. There is far too much
> evidence in their favour to be ignored. This kind of puts the EHYEH YIHWEH
> relationship into question. I basically see only a few possibilities.
>
> 1) EHYEH and YHWH are completely unrelated. This poses no great problems.
> 2) EHYEH is the 3rd person form of the 1st person name YIHWEH (Yah, Yeho,
> Yahu, IAW and IABA pose problems for this theory)
> 3) The vowel pointing of )HYH is wrong and was purposefully put there to
> stop up from reconstructing the correct vowel pointing of YHWH (the
> testimony of the LXX translation poses great problems for this theory)
>
> James Christian
>
> 2009/12/25 Michael J Miles <mjmorthotics0 AT msn.com>
>
> >  I vote for the abbreviated monosyllable Yah; then the extended
> >  dual-syllable
> >  Yehweh or Yahweh; then the fullest and most proper tri-syllabic Yehowah or
> >  Y'HOWAH; agreeing with those like Tregelles and Ginsburg.  Mike Miles.
> >
> >  --------------------------------------------------
> >  From: "Richard" <aaa AT endlyss.com>
> >  Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 6:16 PM
> >  To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> >  Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Patriarchs used YHWH's name?
> >
> >  > Hi Christian,
> >  >
> >  > One answer to your question is available here on page 11:
>  > > http://www.karaite-korner.org/yhwh_2.pdf
> >  >
> >  > I don't want to offend anyone by saying more.
> >  >
> >  > Richard Conaway
> >  >
> >  >
>  > >