Baptizing a baby

[Long Zhiren]

consonants YHWH, whose vowels we don't know, were supplied with the vowels from another word, adonai 'my Lord' so that nobody should be tempted to try to pronounce the holy name.

Pardon me for drifting away from the baptism business, but this line of thought is getting far more interesting to me...

Who needs to supply vowels, when Hebrew has no vowels in its alphabet [Chinese doesn't either!]?

יהוה is YHWH's full spelling, nothing added, nothing subtracted. No Hebrew words have vowels until you start adding the modern little dots and dashes.

Actually, by your argumentation, we could "write" 耶和華, Jehovah or whatever, but when speaking, should actually "pronounce" 主, LORD or whatever...

If we want to be purists, that makes sense. However, I'm not that pure.

[Long Zhiren]

報 is used here because the object is 信息。

帶給 -- bring, bring to. obviously, it can go with just about any object.

How do we know which objects 報給 takes and which ones 帶給 takes?

Do you think 報給 applies to "precious" objects that need to be "cradled?"

信息: 報給

喜 樂 和 能 力: ??

[wai ming]

I think the reason 报 is used for 信息 is because the 报 here means "announce; declare" (quoting from my dictionary). So it doesn't just mean "bring" in a general sense, but "bring" as in to bring news of something.

带 on the other hand means "take; bring" - in a general sense. Hence why it can take any object.

Hope that helps

[Long Zhiren]

waiming,

Thanks for the excellent explanation.

I'm a bit embarrassed. I must have been thinking of a completely different verb...