Hebrew transliteration

There are a number of ways of transliterating Hebrew. This often depends on the way that the speaker pronounces it.

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When ch appears in a Hebrew transliteration, it always has the guttural sound of German.

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For example, the holiday Chanuka can be written as:

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Chanuka, Hannuka, Chaneekoo.

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Here the names in the bible have been transliterated from English into Hebrew using an Ashkenazic pronunciation:

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• Abraham = Avraham
• Isaac = Yitzchok
• Jacob = Ya-akov
• Israel = Yissra-el
• Esau = Eisav
• Joseph = Yossef
• Moses = Moshe
• Aaron = Aharon
• Samuel = Shmu-el
• Saul = Sha-ul
• Job = Iyov
• Jerusalem = Yerushalayim
• Isaiah = Yeshayahu
 
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