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  • February 21, 2008 at 2:47 pm eyeb joynd – eye fink – butt az q_twerk as tahtz mai yahu eye dee.

    Juvy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • February 21, 2008 at 1:01 pm btw, kafleen. eye tried teh linx 4 yahu groopz an hav pwoblimz as am awreddee awn yahu unner nudda naem. woan let me mess wif it at awl ! pleh!

    Juvy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Kafleen inbitedz mii , but az eye awreddy haz a yahu eyeden tittty tehr wuz sum snrfagginsmultuff an eye cudden seam 2 b mii en e moar!

    u haz an itty bitty flavur - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • An article in Biblical Archeology Review a number of years ago noted that the suffix -yahu was sometimes appended to Hebrew names, as in Yeshayahu, or Isaiah-yahu, and Yirmiyahu, or Jeremiah-yahu.

    What We're up Against - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • There is nodoubt that these tombs were used for the burial of nobility and high public officials, as indicated by a fragmentary inscription on one of the tombs in the village of Siloam in Jerusalem to the east of the city of David, dedicated to “ . . . yahu who is in charge of the House.”

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • There is nodoubt that these tombs were used for the burial of nobility and high public officials, as indicated by a fragmentary inscription on one of the tombs in the village of Siloam in Jerusalem to the east of the city of David, dedicated to “ . . . yahu who is in charge of the House.”

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • There is nodoubt that these tombs were used for the burial of nobility and high public officials, as indicated by a fragmentary inscription on one of the tombs in the village of Siloam in Jerusalem to the east of the city of David, dedicated to “ . . . yahu who is in charge of the House.”

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • There is nodoubt that these tombs were used for the burial of nobility and high public officials, as indicated by a fragmentary inscription on one of the tombs in the village of Siloam in Jerusalem to the east of the city of David, dedicated to “ . . . yahu who is in charge of the House.”

    The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

  • Perhaps it might be assumed that these shortened forms yeho, yo, yahu, yah, represent the Divine name as it existed among the Isralites before the full name Jahveh was revealed on Mt. Horeb.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • + Among the 163 proper names which bear an element of the sacred name in their composition, 48 have yeho or yo at the beginning, and 115 have yahu or yah and the end, while the form Jahveh never occurs in any such composition.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

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