You have noticed an eventual shift in the spelling of Abram and Sarai. Both names were adjusted to "AH"; AbrAHam and SarAH. This is significant to yAHway which from the Hebrew simply had the four letter YHWH.
God inserted the AH into both Abram and Sarai's name.
James Garlow makes a strong case regarding such an insertion, I think, when he points to God, When He made covenant with Abram, He put the "H" from His name into Abraham's name and changed Sara's name to "Sarah". The Hebrew letter "H" is the sound of breath, generally signifying the breath or presence of God.
And then he continues to draw our attention, What made Adam live? The breath of God. We see the same concept in the New Testament. The Holy Spirit is called the "Holy Pneuma" in Greek. Pneuma means wind. Literally it means the Holy puff of breath of God.
The way that we try to get a campfire to ignite by blowing onto an ember, God puffed life into the very center of Abram's name....and of Abraham himself.
This is what God's covenant with us does. He gives us life because God breathes life into us.
His Spirit in us. Abram learned to say "AH". We, too, possess the Holy Pneuma....and we really live....
I Thes. 3:8.
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