Followup: The full Name of the Anointed One is most certainly Yod-Hey-Waw-Shin-Waw-Ayin "Yehoshua/Yehoshuah".

. This is based on discovering, in the dead sea scrolls manuscripts four different ways of spelling the name out in Hebrew (there is a fifth one, but it only occurs in the later books (Nehemiah, Ezra and Daniel) in the Masoretic, of which there aren't many manuscripts of among the DSS, and the ones we do have aren't substantial): Full form: - Yod, Hey, Waw, Shin, Waw, Ayin Evidenced in the Dead Sea scrolls: Deuteronomy 3:21 (4Q40Deutm); Joshua 6:10, 8:3, 8:35 & 10:4 (4Q47Josha) Second form: - Yod, Hey, Waw, Shin, Ayin Evidenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Exodus 17:13 & 14 (4Q14 Exodusc); Numbers 32:28 (4Q23 Levi-Numa); Deuteronomy 31:21 & 28 (4Q31Deutd); Joshua 4:1 (twice - 4Q48Joshb), 6:6 (4Q47Josha), 17:4, 14, 15 (4Q48Joshb); Haggai 1:1 (4Q77MinProb), 1:14 & 2:4 (MurXII & 4Q77MinProb). Third form (previously unknown before DSS discovery): - Yod, Hey, Shin, Waw, Ayin (Yahshua) Evidenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Exodus 17:9, 13, 32:17 (4Q22paleoEx); Numbers 26:65, 27:22 (4Q27Numb); Zechariah 3:9 (4Q80e) Fourth form (previously unknown before DSS discovery): - Yod, Hey, Shin, Ayin Evidenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Joshua 5:2, 3, 8:35 (4Q47Josha) As can be seen, it doesn't matter which form it is, but the letter Waw - - can be dropped from a name. This also occurs in many other Hebrew words, where in the Masoretic there isn't a Waw letter, but instead it has the vowel-pointing, but in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Waw letter is there instead. There are 5 and 6 letter variants of this name within the Masorete texts. The longer variant is found in Deuteronomy 3:21 and Judges 2:7. Neither of the Waws in any of the variations of the Masorete Text or those mentioned above represent a consonant form. All uses of the Waws in this name are strictly there for the soul purpose to denote vowel sounds. And being in the Hebrew language vowels are to be implied - even when not supplied - the first and last Waws in this name are to always be pronounce every time without exception. The Fact that the Waws where provided in the longer forms are proof that the shorter forms are to have these vowels pronounced within them. This is something that has to be looked upon in a Hebrew mind-set in order to come to the correct understanding. And this name is not YaH with a Shuah added as a compound to it - but rather Hoshayah with a yohd prefixed unto it. The long U sound in Y'hoshuah is due to the inflection of the verb yasha being in its future tense. When the name was only but Hoshayah the root yasha was in its pasted tense and the vowel sound was the long A sound. So now we have Y'hoshuah, but again the shuah is not seperatre from the o in the "ho" sylable as the o is the Yohd of the root yasha morphed into a Waw whereby making the long O sound. If you try and steal this vowel from the root of yasha, by claiming it is the third letter of the Trigrammaton (YHU), then the

root yasha is effectively destroyed along with its meaning of him doing the saving to him wanting to be saved within this name, whereby leaving it with the definition of "YaHu-Cries for help" instead of "he will save", as "shuah" denotes one who cries/calls out for help and not the act of one whom will save. Keeping this in mind the long U sound is not that of shuah but that of Y'hoshuah. This form still has the Waw that was morphed from the Yohd of yasha. As if is not allowable to separate this vowel from the letters following it with out destroying the root yasha along with its definition. In order to see this one will have to learn Hebraic linguistics and Rules of Grammar and how it is never allowable to destroy a root. And being that the name started out using the root yasha (meaning salvation), and then with the addiction of the Heh went from the present tense unto the past tense as "he saved". Then when the Yohd was prefixed it changed the tense of the root unto its future tense resulting in "he will save". So what you have is the word yasha and the prefix with a Heh to form Hoshayah and then being added upon with yet another prefix of Yohd resulting in the new form of Y'hoshuah. The vowel Yohd which was morphed into a Waw has to stick with the root word yasha [Hoshayah; Yehoshuah] and can not be reaprpreated to form another root as this is not ever allowed within Hebraic rules of Grammar. So to advocate that the Trigrammaton of the Divine Name (YaHu) is part of this name is literally, whether one understands or not, laying claim (within the Rules of Hebrew Grammar) that the definition is "YaHu cries for help"! And this is clearly not the definition of this name, but rather "He Shall Save" (i.e. - Y'hoshuah)! {Mat_1:21} And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His Name : for He shall save His people from their sins.

May, YHWH bless thee and keep thee; YHWH cause His face to shine on thee, and be gracious to thee; YHWH lift up His face to thee, and give thee shalom. Your brother in Y'hoshuah The Anointed One.