Saturday 23 April 2016

pronunciation - Why the masoretes wrote the tetragrammaton this way?


I am aware that there is already another question about the pronunciation if the tetragrammatron which is here:


What is the correct pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton?


But no one mentionned that the masoretes already wrote it this way:


יְהוָה



Is this the original pronunciation ? If not, then why the masoretes wrote it this way ?


Notice that there are no vowels (Tenu'ot) on the letters heh.




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