The Letters And Their Meanings

Every Hebrew letter has a name, a sound, AND a specific meaning. This first chart gives the letter names with equivalent English sounds denoted in purple. For example, the letters ‘S’ and ‘h’ are purple in the letter name ‘Shin’, therefore, the equivalent English sound for Shin is ‘Sh’.

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Note: the letter Pe is sometimes pronounced as ‘P’ and other times pronounced as ‘Ph’.

Letter Meanings

Everything you might like to know about each of the Hebrew Letters including history, the logic behind the letter, information found in the scriptures and how the meanings used here were determined are organized into the following individual letter pages. Click on a letter button below to learn even more about that letter!

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