Tag Archives: Masoretic Text
The Name of the Lord
The Tetragrammaton Yhwh is the personal name for the God of Israel and Judah as revealed to Moses in the Wilderness (Exodus 3:14). This name is first attested to outside the bible in the late ninth century Mesha Inscription, where the enemy king of Moab announces “I took the vessels of Yhwh and dragged them [...]
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Tagged causative, Chemosh, etymology, hiphil, Masoretic Text, Mesha Inscription, Middle Ages, Moab, qere perpetuum, Second Temple Period, Tetragrammaton, YHWH
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