Hello,it seems this question was already answered by a list member. I agree
with you that we have here a mater waw in the Hebrew spelling of Judah. It is
indeed the same with DWD/DWYD. I believe that the maters were developed later
in biblical Hebrew? Since biblical Hebrew was originally composed of
consonants (I am including paleo-Hebrew at this point which was still
pictographic)it appears that the need to employ consonants as vowels
developed later. Is this usually the consensus of scholarship? Is there any
examples of the mater waw used in DWD or YHDH cited in the qere-ketib?
Tony
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