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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.
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.
The Ancient Pictographic Alphabet (Article) The original Hebrew alphabet was written with pictures that reveal insights into Hebrew words.
The original letters of the Hebrew alphabet was actually pictures, or pictographs, similar to Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Each picture represented an object whose definition is closely related to the agricultural lifestyle of the Ancient Hebrews. By studying the culture and lifestyle of the Ancient Hebrews we can better understand their language.
Notes: 1 A pictograph is a pictorial sign or symbol. Hieroglyphs are Egyptian pictographs. A glyph is an element of writing. 2 Transliteration is the process of mapping letters from one alphabet into another alphabet using graphology (letter-shapes) & history (see Evolution of the English Alphabet Chart & The True Hebrew Alphabet Family Tree).
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This document provides a chart of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet from ancient to modern times. It includes the ancient semantic name for each letter from 3000-2000 BC, the early, middle, late, biblical Greek, and modern Hebrew sounds.
