Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Oun:

It’s not that elementary, as it has come up more than once before.

It might be best to follow up on George’s suggestion of googling the
b-hebrew archives. Then if there are further questions, bring them here.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Oun Kwon <kwonbbl AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Please pardon my elementary question on this.
>
> If I rewrite Jehovah (correcting J sound), it would be
>    YeHoWa
> with H sound there but last H sound silent.
>
> Do I see same way Yahweh is in actual pronunciaton
>  YaH-we
> with my understanding of H here present but not quite English h sound
> and the last h is silent.
>
> Probably I asked before somewhere, but I am afraid I did get it clear on
> this.
>
> If I may, is there any summary I can find on arguments against Yahweh
> as the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton? Would it be less accurate
> than, say, Ye-Ho-Wa(h)?
>
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Oun Kwon.
>