From: "Trevor & Julie Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Mount Horeb (CHoReV) and (CHoReVaH)
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:57:20 -0500
Chris wrote:
> In exodus 3:1 is the only place where mount Horeb (ChoReV) is spelt with a
> letter Heh at the end. There are 14 other places where this mountain is
> referred to and none add the letter Heh. Can someone comment please?
The -ah is an adverbial suffix normally indicating movement toward
something. A rough approximation in English would be -ward.