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  • From: Garth Grenache <garthgrenache AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Can Koine Greek omicron-upsilon represent Hebrew long o + w?
  • Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:54:40 +1100


Dear Karl,

I asserted> Suppose, for example, you are suggesting that the long o of Yeho-
names is before the 'w'. This Hebrew vowel is rendered with O:MEGA. If it
were YaHo-WeH with this Hebrew vowel, it would likely be rendered IAO:OUE.

You claim> Not at all. If the original pronunciation was ?Ya-ho-wa-heh? with
the final ?e? unstressed, which would lead to a late pronunciation of
?Ya-ho-wa-h? ormaybe even ?Ya-ho-we-h?, the Greek transcription of ?ho-we?
would be ?oue? representing a diphthong ?ou? and not the long ?o? of the
omega. Thus we endup with a Greek transliteration of ?IAOUE? representing
three syllables.

Can you demonstrate that omicron-upsilon ever represents a long 'o' followed
by 'w' in Koine Greek?

Garth Grenache

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