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The town is known by its connection with the Philistine war of Saul and Jonathan, as it was the site of the Battle of Michmash recounted in the Bible. In 1 Samuel 13 ‘And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmas.
Pronunciation: Yeh-hoo-siff bar Kie-yuh-fuh David (Son of Jesse & Nitzevet bat Adael) Person 1035 BC: 970 BC: Paleo-Hebrew: ๐ค๐ค ๐ค Pronunciation: Dauad Meaning: Beloved One David, House of (the linage of David) 1035 BC: 970 BC: Paleo-Hebrew: ๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค ๐ค Pronunciation: Bayawt Dauad Egypt, Nation of: Nation 3150 BC: 30 BC
The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary suggests the first pronunciation. Similarly, this pronunciation markup guide will choose the most widely used form. NOTE: This guide is designed to be simple and easy to use. This can only be achieved by giving up scope and freedom from occasional ambiguity.
According to the Bible, Saul's army consisted entirely of infantry, about 3,000 soldiers and militia men. According to Josephus and 1 Samuel 13:2, Saul himself initially retained 2,000 of these as his guard in Bethel while providing Jonathan with 1,000 which he used to take back Gibeah from Philistine rule. [2]
Vestiges of this earlier pronunciation are still found throughout the Yiddish-speaking world in names like Yankev (ืืขืงืึฟ) and words like manse (ืืขืฉืื, more commonly pronounced mayse), but are otherwise marginal. ืช ungeminated แนฏฤw is pronounced in Ashkenazi Hebrew. It is always pronounced in Modern and Sephardi Hebrew.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
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Closely related to the Sephardi pronunciation is the Italian pronunciation of Hebrew, which may be regarded as a variant. In communities from Italy, Greece and Turkey, he is not realized as [h] but as a silent letter because of the influence of Italian, Judaeo-Spanish and (to a lesser extent) Modern Greek , all of which lack the sound.