Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vadim Cherny <vadimcherny AT gmail.com>]

If I recall correctly, Ioas is LXX for Yehoash rather than YHWH.  
There, -as stands for -ash, and theophoric part is simply Io. A common  
ancient transliteration is Iao, which doesn't seem to me consistent  
with Tiberian vocalization.

I have more to say on the subject at 
http://vadimcherny.org/judaism/meaning_pronunciation_tetragrammaton.htm

Vadim Cherny


Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

In Tiberian vocalization, schewa prior to He with seghol would be  
pronounced as
a short [o] vowel.  So rather than "Yehova" it would be "Yohova."   
Similar
transliterations can already be found in the Septuagint.  For example,  
yhw)$ is
transliterated as Ioas.