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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hebrew on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hebrew in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh[ a ] (/ tɑːˈnɑːx /; [ 1 ] Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ Tanaḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/ miːˈkrɑː /; Hebrew: מִקְרָא Mīqrāʾ), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim. Different branches of Judaism and Samaritanism have ...
Biblical Hebrew (עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית (Ivrit Miqra'it) ⓘ or לְשׁוֹן הַמִּקְרָא (Leshon ha-Miqra) ⓘ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the ...
Shva or, in Biblical Hebrew, shĕwa (Hebrew: שְׁוָא) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign written as two vertical dots (. ְ. ) beneath a letter. It indicates either the phoneme /ə/ (shva na', mobile shva) or the complete absence of a vowel (/ Ø /) (shva naḥ, resting shva). It is transliterated as e , ĕ , ə , ' (apostrophe), or nothing.
Torah scroll. A Torah scroll (Hebrew: סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah, lit. "Book of Torah"; plural: סִפְרֵי תוֹרָה Sifrei Torah) is a handwritten copy of the Torah, meaning the five books of Moses (the first books of the Hebrew Bible). The Torah scroll is mainly used in the ritual of Torah reading during Jewish prayers.
The word dagesh in Hebrew. The red dot on the rightmost character (the letter dalet) is a dagesh. The dagesh (Hebrew: דָּגֵשׁdagésh) is a diacritic that is used in the Hebrew alphabet. It takes the form of a dot placed inside a consonant.
t. e. The Baraita on the Thirty-two Rules or Baraita of R. Eliezer ben Jose ha-Gelili is a baraita giving 32 hermeneutic rules, or middot, for interpreting the Bible. As of when the Jewish Encyclopedia was published in 1901–1906, it was thought to no longer exist except in references by later authorities. However, it was discovered in 1933 by ...
Original shibboleth. The term originates from the Hebrew word shibbólet (שִׁבֹּלֶת), which means the part of a plant containing grain, such as the head of a stalk of wheat or rye; [1] [2][3] or less commonly (but arguably more appropriately) [a] " flood, torrent ". [4][5] The modern use derives from an account in the Hebrew Bible ...