"MarYah deception" ???

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Shlama Jeremy,

?And the Egyptians will I give into the hands of Adonim qasheh? (cruel lords) ; ?Marye? pronounced ?Maryay? is plural also (lords). Are you suggesting that YHWH will deliver the Egyptians unto YHWH? Is YHWH the cruel Master and the fierce King spoken of?
If so, Adonim refers to YHWH and Maryay (plural) translates the plural Adonim with the most appropriate Aramaic word in the plural form, with identical meaning. If not, (and I cannot believe this does refer to YHWH), Maryay (plural) translates the plural Adonim with the most appropriate Aramaic word in the plural form with identical meaning. In either case, Maryay is not Marya. Maryay is a plural title, as is Adonim.
Marya is The Name of God.
Joshua 3:11 does present a case where the Massoretic Hebrew has ?Adon? and The Peshitta has Marya, but is there any doubt that ?The Lord of all the earth? is YHWH?
You have yet to show one place where Marya (not plural Maryay) refers to anyone but YHWH.

It was not my object to assert the Peshitta reading in Psalms 114:7 necessarily reflects the original to be YHWH, only that the Hebrew manuscript from which the Peshitta was translated may have had YHWH at that place; we cannot know; we can only guess. It also was not my purpose to prove that YHWH always translates to Marya, only that Marya always translates YHWH or identifies YHWH.

It would a mistake to think that since ?Adon? was translated with ?Marya? (if indeed it was) in a few places, and also translated as ?Mara?, and that since YHWH is also translated as Marya and as Mara in a few places, that Mara and Marya are the same, even as it would be a mistake to think ?Adon? and YHWH have the same meaning, since both are apparently translated with ?Marya? in any number of cases. Even if YHWH was translated as Mara in a few places, which cannot be proved, the fact remains that wherever we find ?Marya? in the Peshitta OT, it identifies The Deity -YHWH.

We do know that the Massoretes altered ?YHWH? in at least 134 places to ?Adonai? in the TaNaK. They documented this in the Massorahs found in Hebrew mss, and were compiled by David Ginsburg.
I have listed all the references at the end of my interlinear translation of the Peshitta Psalms & Proverbs. Bullinger's Companion Bible also has these in the appendix.

The bottom line is that Marya always identifies YHWH, never any other.
Considering that Marya occurs over 6,600 times in the Peshitta Tanak, that has to count for something.
Taybutha b'Shemah d'Marya Yeshua,

Dave