If YOKEBED is YHO-KEBED, as correctly pointed out to us by Yigal [YI- G)AL] and Uri, then why not YOSEP = YHO-SEP?
I tend to think that the -HA- added to )ABRAM, Genesis 17:5, and the - AH added to SARAIY, Genesis 17:15, are also in honor of a holy name. While at it I also notice the resemblance of )ABRAM and (AMRAM, Exodus 6:18.
I suspect that the -YA- of the name MIRYAM, Exodus, 15-20, is also of this nature. Otherwise what is the meaning of this curious name MIRYAM?
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:40 AM, <pporta AT oham.net> <pporta AT oham.net> wrote:
I feel uneasy with the interpretation of the -YAMIN part of the name
BINYAMIN as the right hand side [namely the YEMENITE]. I tend to
think that YAMIN = YAH-)AMIN, with YA =YAH being a reference to the
God of the Hebrews.
After all both his father YA-(AKOB and his
grandfather YI-CXAQ had such a reference in their names, methinks.
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Do you really think that the Y of YA-(AKOB and the Y of YI-CXAQ are a reference to the name of Israel's God?
Aren't they a mere prefix to show the imperfective or future verb tense, the same as other hundreds of samples in the Bible?
Pere Porta
Barcelona (Spain)
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