Hebrew For Dummies. Jill Suzanne Jacobs
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Table 1-5 shows the Hebrew letters and their sounds.
TABLE 1-5 The Hebrew Alphabet
Name of the Letter | Pronunciation | Hebrew Character | The Sound It Makes |
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Aleph | ah-lehf | א | Makes no sound. |
Bet | beht | בּ | Makes a B sound as in boat. |
Vet | veht | ב | Makes a V sound as in veterinarian. |
Gimmel | gee-mehl | ג | Makes a G sound as in girl. |
Dalet | dah-leht | ד | Makes a D sound as in door. |
Hey | hey | ה | Makes a soft H sound as in hello. |
Vav | vahv | ו | Also makes a V sound as in veterinarian. (Don’t ask me why.) |
Zayin | zah-een | ז | Makes a Z sound as in zipper. |
Chet | ḥeht | ח | Makes a strong guttural H”sound. In this book, this letter is represented as ḥ. |
Tet | teht | ה | Makes a T sound as in teaspoon. |
Yod | yohd | י | Makes a Y sound at the beginning of a word, as in young. This letter also behaves like a vowel at times. I discuss it in “Those dots and dashes they call vowels” later in this chapter. |
Kaf | kahf | כּ | Makes a K sound as in kite. |
Khaf | khahf | כ | Makes a strong guttural H sound. This letter is represented in this book as kh. |
Lamed | lah-mehd | ל | Makes an L sound as in lemon. |
Mem | mehm | מ | Makes an M sound as in mouse. |
Nun | noon | נ | Makes an N sound as in no. (And you thought only Catholics had nuns.) |
Samekh | sah-mehḥ | ס | Makes an S sound as in soda. |
Ayin | ah-yeen | ע | Makes a barely audible guttural sound in the back of the throat. (For practical purposes, as most non-native speakers can’t make this sound, this letter is a silent letter. You pronounce the vowels that are placed below it, but the letter itself doesn’t make a sound.) |
Pey | pay | פּ | Makes a P sound as in popsicle. |
Fey | fay | פ | Makes an F sound as in fish. |
Tzadi | tzah-dee | צ | Makes a hard Tz sound as in pizza. In this book, I represent it as tz. |
Kof | kohf | ק | Makes a K sound as in Kansas. |
Reish | raysh | ר | Makes an R sound as in round. This letter is actually a guttural letter. Roll it like a Spanish R and pronounce it from the back of the throat. |
Shin | sheen | שׁ | (Not Charlie’s brother or Martin’s long-lost son.) When the dot is on the right side of the letter, it makes a Sh sound. as in show. In this book, I represent it as sh. |
Sin | seen | שׂ |
When the dot is on the left side of the letter, it makes an
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