Davidson's grammar shows a series of paradigms on the back pages.
It shows examples of hiphil/hophal lamed-he verbs 3ms imperfect:
YaGLeH, YaaGLeH
It shows examples of hiphil/hopjal pe-guttural verbs 3ms imperfect:
Ya(aMiYD, Yaa(aaMaD
It shows examples of hiphil/hophal ayin-waw verbs 3ms imperfect:
YaaQiYM, YuWQaM
The root HaWaH is irregular in all three of these respects. If we are to reconstruct the 3ms imperfect of HWH in a scholarly way we need to apply all three rules.
Applying the lamed-he aspect to YHWH we get:
YaHWeH
which is popular in scholoarly circles but shown to be inaccurate. ...
... Applying also the pe-guttural we get:
YaHaWeH
which is trisyllabic but does not agree with the YaHu/YaHo theophoric
components.
Applying also the ayin-waw it is possible that the extra pe-guttural vowel causes a change in normal vowelling that would produce something like:
YaHoWeH/YaHuWeH
which is in agreement with both the theophoric components and the
transliteration
IAOUAI
Any thoughts Peter?
I think we're both wasting our time with the I,You,He theory.
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