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The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian. In modern ...
(In Hebrew, the first word is anoki (אָנֹכִי ), which starts with an aleph.) In the Sefer Yetzirah, the letter aleph is king over breath, formed air in the universe, temperate in the year, and the chest in the soul. Aleph is also the first letter of the Hebrew word emet (אֱמֶת ), which means truth.
Others believed that Paleo-Hebrew merely served as a stopgap in a time when the ostensibly original script (the Hebrew alphabet) had been lost. [13] According to both opinions, Ezra the Scribe (c. 500 BCE) introduced, or reintroduced the Assyrian script to be used as the primary alphabet for the Hebrew language. [10] The arguments given for ...
Ancient Hebrew writings are texts written in Biblical Hebrew using the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.. The earliest known precursor to Hebrew, an inscription in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, is the Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscription (11th–10th century BCE), [1] if it can be considered Hebrew at that early a stage.
The 'hard' pronunciation of the first letter in each pair is unequivocally denoted by a dot in the middle of the letter. The 'soft' pronunciation is similarly notated with a horizontal bar over the letter . Most orthographic systems usually only point one of the two characters in a pair but may be inconsistent from pair to pair in indicating ...
Note 1: The letters "א " or "ב "represent whatever Hebrew letter is used. Note 2: The letter "ש " is used since it can only be represented by that letter. Note 3: The dagesh, mappiq, and shuruk are different, however, they look the same and are inputted in the same manner. Also, they are represented by the same Unicode character.
1 The letter "ס " represents any Hebrew consonant. 2 For sin-dot and shin-dot, the letter "ש " (sin/shin) is used. 3 The dagesh, mappiq, and shuruk have different uses, but the same graphical representation, and hence are input in the same manner. 4 For shuruk, the letter "ו " (vav) is used since it can only be used with that letter.
The letters of Imperial Aramaic were again given shapes characteristic for writing Hebrew during the Second Temple period, developing into the "square shape" of the Hebrew alphabet. [ 15 ] The Samaritans , who remained in the Land of Israel, continued to use their variant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, called the Samaritan script . [ 16 ]