Hebrew alphabet
Torah's writing system
The Hebrew alphabet is the writing system used for Hebrew and several other languages including Yiddish and Ladino.
It consists of 22 consonant letters written right to left, with vowels typically indicated by diacritical marks called niqqud or inferred from context.
The letters also serve as numerals in traditional notation.
Hebrew alphabet's beginning
Judaism's core scripture
- KabbalahJewish esoteric tradition
- YHWHHebrew name of God
- TalmudRabbinic law compilation
- tefillinJewish prayer boxes worn daily
mezuzah · sofer · Torah scroll · mysticism · divine names · parchment · sacred text · covenant
Jewish sacred text copyist
- quillFeather used for writing
- parchmentTreated hide for manuscripts
- inkWriting fluid
- scribalOf professional copyists
lettering · manuscript · flourish · block letters · crowns · letterforms · illumination · penmanship
Of obstructed speech sounds
- right-to-leftReading toward the margin
- SemiticOf Hebrew or Arabic peoples
- phoneticRelating to speech sounds
- transliterationCross-script phonetic spelling
vowels · matres lectionis · pronunciation · Sephardic · Ashkenazi · root system · morphology · etymology
aleph
Hebrew alphabet's beginning
Torah
Judaism's core scripture
tefillin · mezuzah · sofer · Torah scroll · mysticism · divine names · parchment · sacred text · covenant · synagogue
sofer
Jewish sacred text copyist
scribal · lettering · manuscript · flourish · block letters · crowns · letterforms · illumination · penmanship · strokes
consonantal
Of obstructed speech sounds
- right-to-leftReading toward the margin
- SemiticOf Hebrew or Arabic peoples
- phoneticRelating to speech sounds
transliteration · vowels · matres lectionis · pronunciation · Sephardic · Ashkenazi · root system · morphology · etymology · acrostic
- Hebrew scriptaleph, shin, vocalization, pointing, block letters
- Jewish educationyeshiva, day school, day schools, Torah study, aleph-bet
- JudaismShabbat, kosher, Passover, Torah, Hanukkah
- Hebrewaleph, bet, ayin, lamed, shin
- writing historycuneiform, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphs, scripts, writing systems
- writing systemsvowel, alphabets, consonant, syllable, capital letters
Hebrew alphabetChinese characters
Logographic writing system
kanji · Arabic alphabet · Arabic script · Latin alphabet · cuneiform