Notes on the Near East

YHWH Who Blows

I was reminded of this when I saw the following question on Reddit: IMG_9898

The top comment mentions that the likely Hebrew root is *hwh, "to be." But don't stop there! The cognate Arabic root is "related to air, passion, and their manifestations": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Arabic_roots/%D9%87_%D9%88_%D9%8A.