> the theophoric names use vowels unrelated to the original pronunciation? It’s not about all names, I guess you ask about YHWH. If you follow the links from p

> the theophoric names use vowels unrelated to the original pronunciation? It’s not about all names, I guess you ask about YHWH. If you follow the links from previous messages you can see that we have information how the Greeks pronounced it and also the linguistic hints known to the language experts. Based on both it is quite accepted that it’s pronounced approximately yahweh with probably silent h and the ending e sounding like English a in an article like in “a house”. So the alternative maybe simpler spelling would be yaaw. But then people would ask where both h went. Also note that English pronouncing of J from the German transcriptions like in “Jar” is always wrong, it should always be Y.