Hebrew Aleph-Bet (alphabet)

Hebrew Aleph-Bet

                                Letter/Name       Value                     Meaning(s)

                                א             Aleph                1        Ox, Strength, Thousand, Teaching (positive/negative), Master/Creator
                                ב              Beit                   2        House/Tent, Within
                                ג              Gimel                 3        Camel, Bridge, Weaning, Benevolence
                                ד              Dalet                 4        Door, Poor Man, Lifting Up (elevating)
                                ה             Hei   (Hey)         5        Broken, Take Seed, Window, Behold, Revelation
                                ו               Vav   (Waw)           Spine, Hook, Tent-Peg, Nail
                                ז              Zayin                 7        Weapon, Ornament/Crown, Species-Gender, Sustain
                                ח             Chet                  8         Fence, Fear, Life, Love
                                ט             Tet                    9         Inclination, Staff-serpent, Below, Bed
                                י               Yud                 10       Hand, To Thrust/throw, Work
                                ך כ          Kaf                   20       Palm (of hand), Clouds, Power to Suppress
                                ל              Lamed             30        To Learn, To Teach, Shepard Staff, Ox-goad
                                מ ם         Mem                 40       Water, Blemish, Flowing–as blood
                                נ   ן          Nun                  50       Fish, Propagate/Offspring, Heir to the Throne
                                ס             Samekh            60       Support, Rely On, Ordination, Construct Form (grammar)
                                ע              Ayin                 70       Eye, Color, Spring/Fountain, Sheep (Aramaic)
                                פ  ף          Pei  (Pey)         80       Mouth, Here (present)
                                צ  ץ          Tsadi               90       Side, To Hunt, Righteous, Fishhook, Chaos (Aramaic)
                                ק             Quf                 100       Monkey, Circuit of Space/Time, Back of head, Needle’s Eye (Aram.)
                                ר              Reish (Resh)  200      Head, Beginning, Poison, Poverty
                                ש             Shin                300       Year, Tooth/Ivory, Scarlet, Serenity, Sleep, Two, Sharp, Old
                                ת             Tav (Taw)      400       Sign, Mark, Impression-Pain/Wound, Code, More (Aramaic)



 v          Aside from the 22 letters in the Aleph-Bet, 5 of the letters also have a Sofit or ‘final’ form which ONLY
             comes at the end of a word.  Interestingly, the SINGLE exception to this rule comes in Isaiah 9:6 where
            a Mem Sofit is in the MIDDLE of the Hebrew word for ‘Increase’ –
             indicating that the peace AND the increase of the government of Messiah Yeshua will NEVER end.



Hebrew Vowel Pointers

Sh’va –בְ           syllable break

Segol – רֶ            short ‘e’ as in egg

Patach – הַ          short ‘a’ as in watch; a Patach UNDER the letter Chet when it is at
                                    the end of a word is pronounced BEFORE the letter – as in Noach

Kamatz – וָ          short ‘o’ as in common

Chiriq – יִ            long ‘e’ as in see

Zeire – רֵ            long ‘a’ as in grape

Sin dot – שׂ          pronounced ‘s’ as in seen

Shin dot – שׁ         pronounced ‘sh’ as in shine

Holom – לֹ          long ‘o’ as in home

Shuruk – וּ           long ‘u’ as in tune

Dagesh – בּ          designates how certain letters are to be pronounced:
                                    A Bet with a dagesh is pronounced as a ‘B’, whereas without the
                                    dagesh it is pronounced as a ‘V.’  A Tav with a dagesh
                                    is pronounced as a ‘Th.’  A Mem with a dagesh is pronounced
                                    as a ‘MM.’  A Kaf with a dagesh is pronounced as a ‘K’, while
                                    without the dagesh it is pronounced as ‘CH.  A Pey with a dagesh
                                    is pronounced as an ‘F’, while without the dagesh it is pronounced
                                    as a ‘P.’

Kubutz – כֻ          long ‘u’ as in move

Reduced Segol –אֱ   syllable break followed by short ‘e’ as in ahead

Reduced Patach -  אֲ  syllable break followed by short ‘a’ as in aha

Reduced Kamatz – הֳ in Sephardic traditions this is pronounced as a long ‘o’ as in
                                    tomb, in Ashkenazi traditions it is a short ‘o’ as in done.