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The ancient twenty-two Hebrew letters were originally pictures of animals, tools or parts of the body. The objective of this page is to teach the name, sound and meaning of each letter by associating it with common English words and sounds that are related to the original Hebrew.
The Hebrew language was originally a picture language, evolving over thousands of years. The early proto Canaanite pictorial language was about 1,000 BC, the time of King David. In this period the alef was represented as the head of an ox or bull denoting a strong leader or strength.
The Ancient Pictographic Hebrew Language. It is generally thought that the Ten Commandments were written by the finger of YHWH when Moses retrieved the carved tablets upon Mt. Sinai. But what was the ancient script that YHWH used to write these?
Like other ancient writing systems, the Hebrew alphabet originally was written using a pictographic script. Later, the pictograms evolved into a Hebrew script (sometimes called Paleo-Hebrew) that strongly resembled the ancient Phoenician alphabet.
Hebrew was originally written with a pictographic script similar to Egyptian Hieroglyphs but, when Israel was taken into captivity in Babylon they adopted the Aramaic script of the region and used it to write Hebrew.
Easy lessons to learn how to read the the ancient pictographic Hebrew script, also called Paleo-Hebrew. Instructions in how to set up your keyboard to type in Hebrew characters. Instructions in how to hand-write the modern Hebrew alphabet.
The Hebrew Bible (called the Tenack by Jews and the Old Testament by Christians) was originally written in this pictographic Hebrew script (as well as a modified form usually referred to as Paleo-Hebrew) by Hebrews whose language and culture were very different from our own.
