Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Doug Belot" <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au>]

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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