Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Biblical Names Ending in -YH
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:13:26 -0500 (EST)
Karl:
1.You wrote:“But [in my prior
post] I also mentioned CRWYH David’s uncle, mentioned in 1 Samuel and 1
Chronicles. Even by your reckoning, 1 Samuel comes before 2 Samuel.”
But Karl, I Chronicles 2: 16, which you
expressly cited in your prior post, says that Zeruiah was King David’s sister,
not his uncle.
CRY is a kind of balsam, and -H is a
standard west Semitic feminine ending for a woman’s name.
I don’t know of anyone who claims that
CRWYH is a west Semitic name of a man that honors YHWH.Given what I Chronicles 2: 16 expressly
states, why would you think this is a man?And if -YH in this name honors YHWH, then what is CRW and how does it
honor YHWH?
2.You wrote:“[Chronicles] records
events that occurred before King David, [and] it falsifies your thesis.”
No, my thesis is that from Genesis
through I Samuel, there is not a single man’s name of an individual character
in the Bible that is a west Semitic name ending in -YH that honors YHWH.
I further assert that the names “Uriah”
and “Seraiah” in II Samuel are non-Hebrew names with a Semiticizing -H ending.That is no surprise, because Joshua 15: 63
expressly tells us that Jebusites remained in Jerusalem to this very day, and
Araunah, whose name also ends in -H, is expressly stated at II Samuel 24: 16 to
be a Jebusite.
Thus in the books of the Bible from
Genesis through II Samuel, the first person who gives a son of his a west
Semitic name ending in -YH that honors YHWH is King David.Yes!
3.Karl, you have not been able to cite a single name occurring from
Genesis through I Samuel that is the name of an individual male character in
the Bible that is a west Semitic name ending in -YH that honors YHWH.