'Vav' or 'Waw' What's the Difference?

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Rob teaches courses on the 2nd Temple Period, Rabbinic Literature, Judaism, Koine Greek, and Aramaic. He has delivered papers at conferences for both the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature. He serves at Heart of Messiah Ministries in Spokane Valley. Rob holds two degrees from the University of Washington: MA, Comparative Religion (2005) and BA, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, with a minor in Music (2003).

[rctk]

No one can yet explain why גב and גו are written either way in the Tanak, while having the same meaning.

[GatheringJacob]

Waw is generally understood to be more ancient and I think that’s what Caleb was getting at when he said “traditional” and vav more “modern”. I agree with Caleb according to my research.

[sergeshmash]

This might sound weird, but I assumed it was an error of translation and the change from German and Old English. Germans (and I believe OE) pronounce W as V ....and J as a Y sound. This is why in English the name Jehovah was/is pronounced as it is spelt, as apparently original translators wrote J (Jehovah) but they pronounced Y. This is something I was told a long time ago, about Jehovah, and assumed it was the same with was and vav.

[nathanglueck]

Ok. There are 22 letters in the hebrew alphabet. 6 of the letters have soft and hard sounds. It makes sense that each letter has a distinct sound. Otherwise why have seperate letters.

[SeerSeekingTruth]

If you were to suddenly hear voices that do not belong to you or what you ppl now call “schizophrenia” and this voice tells you to write an “inspired” book. Would you do it?

How would you verify the source?
How would you determine whether what you are being told is the truth?

People are hearing voices nonstop and are talking about this all over the internet, they are hearing actual voices from someone… who the voices belong to no one truly knows. Religious people call them mentally ill yet all of you worship books that came from this exact source. Think about that.

[eliyahu]

Modern Hebrew is from Babylon, Paleo Hebrew is the real Hebrew, the languish the prophets wrote in!