THE HEBREW "TAH-VAL." by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 8, 1881

THE HEBREW "TAH-VAL."

By Editor

ON the second page of this paper (whole number 398) will be found the excellent article of Dr. Tombes, copied from the Herald of Truth. We have taken the liberty of making a few typographic changes.

We have been asked to explain the use of the different forms, as tabal, and tah-val. It is understood that the Hebrew alphabet contains 22 letters—all consonants. This word contains three letters—the equivalents of TVL. The vowel sounds are indicated by points and marks attached to the letters. It is usual to add h to the first syllable, tah, when turned into English, to indicate that the vowel has the sound of the Italian a, as in father, instead of the long English a, as in ta. The baith has two sounds, of b, and v. Some give one and some the other for the first or ordinary sound. Each is used in the original, according to the form of the word.

But of the article. It is worthy of careful perusal. It is so clear that it must carry conviction of its truthfulness to every reader.