[Avodah] Why Not: Yehoshua BEN Nun?

[Zev Sero]

> I had always heard this idea, but I recently heard another idea that
> the yud came from the missing yud in "v'haish Moshe Anav".

What missing yud?  What makes us think "anav" should have a yud in the
first place?


> That is not a valid analogy. "Binyamin" IS one word.
> "Bin Nun" is 2 words and the context is not the same.

Are they really two words?  Doesn't the makaf make them one word?
And in what way is the context different?  What does Binyamin mean?
"Son of the right".  So how is it different from this?



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