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The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, [a] Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
Hebrew diacritics. Gen. 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters be collected". Letters in black, pointing in red, cantillation in blue[1] Hebrew orthography includes three types of diacritics: Niqqud in Hebrew is the way to indicate vowels, which are omitted in modern orthography, using a set of ancillary glyphs. Since the vowels can be understood ...
The gershayim ״ , is a Hebrew symbol indicating that a sequence of characters is an acronym, and is placed before the last character of the word. Owing to a Hebrew keyboard's having neither a geresh nor gershayim, they are usually replaced online with, respectively, the visually similar apostrophe ' and quotation mark " .
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Modern Hebrew (עִבְרִית חֲדָשָׁהʿĪvrīt ḥadašá [ʔivˈʁit χadaˈʃa] or [ʕivˈrit ħadaˈʃa]), also called Israeli Hebrew or simply Hebrew, is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. Developed ...
The Hebrew language has names for common numbers that range from zero to one million. Letters of the Hebrew alphabet are used to represent numbers in a few traditional contexts, such as in calendars. In other situations, numerals from the Hindu–Arabic numeral system are used. Cardinal and ordinal numbers must agree in gender with the noun ...
Help. : IPA/Hebrew. 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. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do ...
Cursive Hebrew. Cursive Hebrew (Hebrew: כתב עברי רהוטktav ivri rahut, "flowing Hebrew writing", or כתב יד עבריktav yad 'ivri, "Hebrew handwriting", often called simply כתבktav, "writing") is a collective designation for several styles of handwriting the Hebrew alphabet. Modern Hebrew, especially in informal use in Israel ...
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Begadkefat (also begedkefet) is the phenomenon of lenition affecting the non- emphatic stop consonants of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic when they are preceded by a vowel and not geminated. The name is also given to similar cases of ...