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  • From: "Doug Belot" <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: <LBReich AT alum.mit.edu>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The Name a curse?
  • Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:35:39 +1000

Gods name is sacred , to quote the name Yahweh as Gods name is fraught with danger and could be to blaspheme, the best of Hebrew scholars from the Massorretes to the present time refused to even consider atempting to tranlsate this name , why do all you guys think you can without peril , Ex 20:7 .

doug belot
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis" <lbr AT sprynet.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The Name a curse?



I'm not aware of any root that would give "hovah" a meaning of
"destruction." "Xurvah", perhaps, but the spelling is xet-vav-resh-bet-heh
- entirely different from the Tetragrammaton,

Lewis Reich

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Richard
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 1:08 AM
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] The Name a curse?

There is something that keeps popping up now and then. That is, that the
Massoretes changed the vowels of the tetragrammaton so that to pronounce the
name would be to curse YHWH. Something about hovah meaning destruction. I
seriously doubt this because then they would be guilty of causing others to
sin greatly in ignorance. They would be purposely digging a pit for the
unsuspecting to fall into.

Has anyone else heard such a thing and is there truth to this? This sounds
like a rumor that needs to be debunked. Or if there is truth to it it would
not be evil motives of the Massoretes. I have not heard anything of the kind
on this list so far.

Richard Conaway

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