A recent article on the website, Seforim Blog, compares the phonetics of biblical Hebrew and Arabic. In the post, the author, Rabbi Avi Grossman, remarks that he “cannot fathom” why the letter ...

Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...

Because the original Hebrew alphabet was 'acrophonic' - meaning the naming of letters so that their name begins with the letter itself, and uses no vowels - it leaves a lot of room for ambiguity ...

Hebrew with vowels. This prayer shown below is the Sh’Mah, with vowels. ... There are no blending of letters its all as you see. With vowels we can easily pronounce words.

Try Hebrew and Yiddish versions ... “Words in Hebrew are morphologically denser – they have fewer vowel letters, diphthongs, doubled letters and other redundancies,” Bar-on explains.

The Hebrew word for “engraved” in Exodus 32:15 is “charut” (rhymes with “root”). The exact same Hebrew letters with different vowels, however, spell ...