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13 Basic Hebrew Words to Know and Use All the Time. By Menachem Posner. Art by Sefira Lightstone. 1. Shalom (shah-LOME) שלום. Perhaps the best-known Hebrew word today is shalom, which means “peace” or “wellbeing.” It also can be used for both “hello” and “goodbye.” Explore shalom. 2. Todah (toe-DAH) תודה.
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Notable features. Type of writing system: abjad / consonant alphabet. Writing direction: right to left in horizontal lines. Number of letters: 22 consonants, plus final letters and diacritics. Used to write: Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish and many other Jewish languages.
The Hebrew alphabet, the holy language of the Bible, is used for biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Yiddish, and Ladino. It consists of 22 letters, all consonants, none of which are lowercase.
10 Facts About the Hebrew Language Every Jew Should Know; 13 Basic Hebrew Words to Know and Use All the Time
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The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, [a] Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
The Hebrew alphabet, or the Aleph Bet, consists of 22 letters. The Aleph Bet is also used to write other Jewish languages, like Yiddish, Ladino, Aramaic, Judeo-Persian and Judeo-Arabic. In Hebrew, the letters are all consonants and the language is comprehensible when written without vowels.
