Hebrew Transliteration

There are a number of ways of transliterating Hebrew. This often depends on the way that the speaker pronounces it. When ch appears in a Hebrew transliteration, it always has the guttural sound of German. For example, the holiday Chanuka can be written as: Chanuka, Hannuka, Chaneekoo. Here the names in the bible have been transliterated from English into Hebrew using an Ashkenazic pronunciation:
  • Abraham = Avraham
  • Isaac = Yitzchok
  • Jacob = Ya-akov
  • Israel = Yissra-el
  • Esau = Eisav
  • Joseph = Yossef
  • Moses = Moshe
  • Aaron = Aharon
  • Samuel = Shmu-el
  • Saul = Sha-ul
  • Job = Iyov
  • Jerusalem = Yerushalayim
*Isaiah = Yeshayahu

 

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