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Now to Nehemiah Gordon, since we don't have HTML I have to make a few adjustments.
"by the rules of the Hebrew language the first hey in YHVH must have some vowel...."
This hasn't really come up directly, the basic rule, on b-hebrew. There was a little preview leading up to that conclusion, which I bypassed.
"It is possible that the medieval scribes omitted the vowel in the first hey of YeHVaH to prevent the readers from reading the name out loud."
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"only reason the Masoretic scribes would have left the form Yehowih without dropping the vowel after the hey is because they knew this was not the true pronunciation of the divine name. ... the Masoretic scribes knew the name to be Yehovah and suppressed its pronunciation by omitting the "o". This is confirmed by the fact that the scribes actually forgot to suppress the vowel "o" in a number of instances."
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"the scribe knew that the word YHVH sounded like Yehovah and even though he was supposed to suppress the vowel "o" he left it in, in a few dozen instances. ...
So this is a very clear assertion, and I don't think we have discussed it on the thread yet.
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