Hebrew letter/final form
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The Hebrew Alphabet
Pronounced
He (Hay)
Waw
Zayin
g
th, d
h
w
z
Heth
Teth
Yod
ch
t
y (j)
Kaph
Lamed
Mem (mame)
Nun (noon)
Samek
ch, k
l
m
n
s
Ayin
Pe (pay)
Zade
Qof
Resh
(za
dee)
Sin
Shin
Taw
(a gulping sound)
f, p
ts
q
r
s
sh
th, t
Aleph
Beth
Gimel
Daleth
Transliteration
(like h in
“honest”)
v, b
Hebrew Vowel Pointing
Pointing
Name
Prounciation
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hireq, a short “i” as in “lid”
segol, a short “e” as in “bed”
tsere, a long “e” as in “they”
holam, a long “o” as in “hole”
qibbuts, a short “u” as in “bull”
shureq, a long “u” as in “flute”
hateph-pathah
hateph-qametz
hateph-segol
schwa
Hebrew Signs, which are not Vowels
schwa, a sign to fill a vowelless letter
maqqeph, when two or more short words are
closely associated in meaning they are
joined together by a hyphen-like line called
Maqqeph, which means “binding.” They are
considered as being virtually one word.
Daghesh (“piercing”) is a dot in the heart
of a letter. Daghesh Lene or weak and
Daghesh Forte or strong.
patah, a short
“a” as in
“had”
qametz, a long
“a” as in
“yard”
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These are the
four
gutterals, or
throatletters. They
cannot be
doubled and
therefore
never receive
a Daghesh
Forte.
the definite
article, “the”
the inseparable prepositions
the feminine ending on nouns and adjectives
the plural ending on nouns and adjectives
The construct state:
When two words are so closely connected
together that the word in the construct
state (the first word) is dependent upon the
second word, then the two words together
form one compound idea. Example: “the man
of God.”