The
Evolution of the name Elijah
The
Hebrew name
Eliyahu
The Hebrew name Eliyahu (ay-lee-yaw'-hoo)
means "My God is Yahweh" and is spelled Aleph-Lamed-Yod-He-Vav.
The
Greek name Elias
The
transliteration of Eliyahu from Hebrew to Greek is straight forward.
- The Hebrew
letter Aleph has a long "A" sound which corresponds
with the Greek sound "HAY" which is the letter Eta
with the rough breathing mark "`H".
- The Hebrew
consonant Lamed, pronounced with a long E, has the sound "LEE"
which corresponds to the exact same sound from the Greek letters
"LI" ( Lamda-Iota).
- The Hebrew
letter Yod has a "YAW" sound which corresponds to
the "AH" sound from the Greek letter "A"
(Alpha).
- The Hebrew
letters He-Vav, pronounced "HYOU" do not have any
corresponding sound in Greek because male names are almost always
closed out with a consonant, usually an S, or less frequently
with an 'N' or 'R' sound.
- These
steps produce the name “ELIAS” (`HLIAS)
which is pronounced "HAY-LEE-AS."
Elias
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