enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Biblical Hebrew - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Hebrew

   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 ...

3. Biblical Hebrew orthography - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Hebrew_orthography

   Biblical Hebrew orthography. Biblical Hebrew orthography refers to the various systems which have been used to write the Biblical Hebrew language. Biblical Hebrew has been written in a number of different writing systems over time, and in those systems its spelling and punctuation have also undergone changes.

4. Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet

   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.

5. Hebrew diacritics - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_diacritics

   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 ...

6. Niqqud - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niqqud

   In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud (Hebrew: נִקּוּד, Modern: nikúd, Tiberian: niqqūḏ, "dotting, pointing" or Hebrew: נְקֻדּוֹת, Modern: nekudót, Tiberian: nəquddōṯ, "dots") is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

7. History of the Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hebrew_alphabet

   History of the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew alphabet is a script that was derived from the Aramaic alphabet during the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods (c.500 BCE – 50 CE). It replaced the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet which was used in the earliest epigraphic records of the Hebrew language.

8. Kamatz - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamatz

   Kamatz or qamatz (Modern Hebrew: קָמָץ, IPA: [kaˈmats]; alternatively קָמֶץ qāmeṣ) is a Hebrew niqqud (vowel) sign represented by two perpendicular lines (looking like an uppercase T) ָ ‎ underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it usually indicates the phoneme / a / which is the "a" sound in the word spa and is transliterated as a.

9. Patach - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patach

   The first and only vowel (under Gimel, the horizontal line) is a pataḥ. Pataḥ (Hebrew: פַּתָּח patákh, IPA: [paˈtaħ], Biblical Hebrew: pattā́ḥ) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign represented by a horizontal line אַ‎ underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it indicates the phoneme / a / which is close to the " [a]" sound in the ...