Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Garth Grenache <garthgrenache AT hotmail.com>]

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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