Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Gordon,

>   How do I find a chart to assist me in translitering the Hebrew scribe so
>I can send a message to Biblical Hebrew?

Here is one:


TRANSLITERATION CHART

Hebrew                        Greek

aleph          )              alfa               A

bet            B              beta               B

gimel          G              gamma              G

dalet          D              delta              D

he             H              epsilon            E

waw            W              digamma/vau (=6)   V

zayin          Z              zeta               Z

het            X              eta                H

tet            +              theta              Q

yod            Y              iota               I

kaf            K              kappa              K

lamed          L              lamda              L

mem            M              mu                 M

nun            N              nu                 N

samek          S              ksi                C

ayin           (              omicron            O

pe             P              pi                 P

zade           C              koppa (=90)       #3

qof            Q              rho                R

resh           R              sigma (both)       S

sin/shin       #              sigma final        J

sin            &              tau                T

shin           $              upsilon            U

taw            T              phi                F

                              chi                X

                              psi                Y

                              omega              W

patah          A

qametz         F

hireq          I

segol          E

tsere          "              smooth breathing   )

holam          O              rough breathing    (

qibbuts        U              iota subscript     |

shureq         W.

schwa          :              acute accent       /

holem waw      OW             grave accent       \

hateph-pathah :A              circumflex acc.    =

hateph-qametz :F

hateph-segol  :E

maqqeph        -              diaeresis          +

dagesh         .              midpoint punct.    :

rape           ,

ketiv          *              capital letter     * (precedes)

qere           **

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard
                                Dallas, TX