[Mesorah] Nikud on YKVK

[Elazar M. Teitz]

-- Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:

>> The part that I find confusing is this: In the Shen Adnus, the aleph gets a Chataf Patach. But when the YKVK has vowels, the first one is a sheva. Why the change? Why not use the chataf patach?
 
>> Perhaps some printer felt that the yod was too narrow for a chataf patach. Couldn't he at least have used a regular patach, to maintain proper (at close-to-proper) pronunciation? I skim through my Chumash and I see *plenty* of words which start with yod-patach or vav-patach.
 
>> So why did they choose to use a plain sheva?

>A chataf is really just a jumped-up sheva; it's what a sheva na becomes when it appears on a guttural letter (alef, hei, chet, ayin, resh). So in the Shem Adnus, the sheva becomes a chataf-patach, because an alef can't have a sheva na; but transpose the same vowel to a yud and it remains a sheva.

     But the same reasoning applies when the Shem is pronounced Elokim, yet there the chataf remains under the yud, and does not revert to a sh'va.  Why the difference?

EMT 


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