12-10-2010, 03:51 AM
I recently came across Etheridge's understanding regarding, as he calls it, Morio:
Etheridge Wrote:The old Syriac Version for Yehovah employs the title Morio, "the Lord." The Syrians considered this name with its four letters M.R.I.A. to correspond with the Hebrew Tetragram, YHWH; and the letters themselves as the initials of words symbolical of the Divine Nature; the first, m, standing for morutho, "dominion;" the second, r, for rabbutho, "majesty," or "greatness;" the third and fourth, i, a, for aithutho, "essential being." Morio, "The Lord," is distinguished from the common form of Mar, "a lord," and is never used but as an appellation of the Deity.Here's a link to that specific page: The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch, Volume 2, p. 10.