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Introduction to the Hebrew Alphabet. The Hebrew alphabet, the holy language of the Bible, is used for biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Yiddish, and Ladino. It consists of 22 letters, all consonants, none of which are lowercase. Each letter has its own sound and numerical value.
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Learn about the history, structure and usage of the Hebrew alphabet, an abjad script derived from Aramaic and Phoenician. The article covers the 22 letters, the vowel points, the square and paleo-Hebrew forms, and the related scripts.
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Like most early Semitic alphabetic writing systems, the alef-bet has no vowels. People who are fluent in the language do not need vowels to read Hebrew, and most things written in Hebrew in Israel are written without vowels.
However, as Hebrew literacy declined, particularly after the Romans expelled the Jews from Israel, the Rabbis realized the need for aids to pronunciation, so they developed a system of dots and dashes known as nikkudim (points). These dots and dashes are written above or below the letter, in ways that do not alter the spacing of the line. Text cont...
The dot that appears in the center of some letters is called a dagesh. With most letters, the dagesh does not significantly affect pronunciation. With the letters Bet, Kaf and Pe, however, the dagesh indicates that the letter should be pronounced with its hard sound (the first sound) rather than the soft sound (the second sound). In Ashkenazic pron...
The style of writing illustrated above is the one most commonly seen in Hebrew books. It is referred to as block print or sometimes Assyrian text. For sacred documents, such as Torah scrolls or the scrolls inside tefillin and mezuzot, there is a special writing style with \"crowns\" (crows-foot-like marks coming up from the upper points) on many of...
Each letter in the alefbet has a numerical value. These values can be used to write numbers, as the Romans used some of their letters (I, V, X, L, C, M) to represent numbers. Alef through Yod have the values 1 through 10. Yod through Qof have the values 10 through 100, counting by 10s. Qof through Tav have the values 100 through 400, counting by 10...
Learn about the Hebrew alphabet, its letters, vowels, points, styles, transliteration and numerical values. See examples, illustrations and explanations of the Hebrew writing system.
A web page that explains the Hebrew letters with examples, mnemonics, and a printable chart. It also covers the final letters, the vowels, and the silent letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
Learn about the Hebrew alphabet, its letters, vowels, points, styles, and numerical values. See examples, illustrations, and transliteration of Hebrew words and phrases.
- Hebrew is normally written in its own alphabet, which is very different, though sometimes for the benefit of people who don''t read Hebrew well, He...
- Like Roman numerals, Hebrew numerals are letters of the alphabet. Each letter has a numerical value , and the numerical value is determined by addi...
- Ancient Hebrew found by archaeologists was written with an alphabet similar to Phoenician that the rabbis call K'tav Ivri (Hebrew Script). The only...
Learn how to read the Hebrew alphabet, or the Aleph Bet, which consists of 22 consonants and no vowels. See the modern and ancient forms of each letter, the corresponding English sound, and the nikkud marks for vowels.
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The letters that come on a necklace with a smaller letter next (left - because Hebrew is read from Right to left) would most likely be the word CHAI which means "Life" in English. The well known toast " l'chaim" uses that concept by wishing a person long good life as a blessing/prayer.
