Pronounciation of Iesous

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Thu May 20 07:55:52 EDT 1999


At 04:59 PM 5/20/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Greetings all,
>
> just a simple question , I understand that Koine Greek is a dead language
and as such the exact pronounciation as used in the 1st century is not known
for a certainty, but what is the concensus on the pronounciation of Iesous?.
>The few Greek Grammars i have (Mounce and W. Powers) do not list Iota and
Eta as a diphthong, which would mean Iesous would be pronounced as I-E-SOUS,
three syllables, is this correct?. 

Yes.
It is a three syllable word.  More like EE-YA-SOUS  where the double e's
signify a long e sound and ya signify almost an iota/yod vocalic.  sous is
just as it sounds.

Best,

Jim

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