My interpretation of Revelation 11:8-15 stands as proof Islam is going to hell prior even to Satan because Jesus hates it more than any other religion and the Muslims will watch the Jew and Christian resurrect and rapture physically before their eyes and know they are the wicked but still not bow until God shakes the Earth to force it (their bowing) physically while their minds still hate. This is why Muslims get hell.
The only religion to go to utter ruin one thousand years before Satan is Islam because when a crucified Jesus kills Muslims so that the blood of Muslims goes to the bridle bit of a horse in judgement against them for what they do to Jews and Christians it is over for their stupid asses.
Read Zechariah 14:18-19 and know that in Egypt today they are begging for the next Jewish Holocaust. God knew Muslims were fools from the beginning. God always tells the end from the beginning.
@ABAisSCIENCE The Bible God and the God of the Quran are One n the same you ingorant Baboon!!! The God of the Bible also decieves=1 Kings 22:23,2 Chronicles 18:22,Jeremiah 4:10,Jeremiah 20:7,Ezekiel 14:9,2 Thessalonians 2:11)!! You are a pagan n polytheist because you worship a Man(Jesus) sent to the isrealites n the Holy spirit who has come before and after Jesus who was Created miraculous by God without the intervention of a male/Father and equal/ascribe partners with them to the Creator!!
@moeazysgc, Beginning of Islam is allah saying god is too weak to preserve words so he has to stoop to a pedophile to write a Quran full of abrogations by either a dumb allah who can't make up his mind or a pedophile who is forked tongued. To seem like a real god allah has to endorse Jesus while making allah perform a miracle to ruin Jesus' testimony by making it appear Jesus was crucified either because allah is malicious or just too dumb to know what happens next (worship of Jesus).
@moeazysgc, Typical Muslim can't say anything of substance or anything to combat truth. Ever figure out what that means about allah and the dumb Muhammed, peace be upon him per Matthew 10:28, for his wicked and useless Quran?
@ABAisSCIENCE Typical Christian can't say anything without mocking the Prophet May God help you you use a against me a corrupt n changed book yet can't even bring any logical arguments plus the Torah that supports the Quran! U worship a god man that can die(when God can not die), a god that has three split personalities yet is one Lol n has children with his own Creation n commits suicide for the sins of the guilty! i sorry to offend you but how does a little bit of ur own medicine taste like!
@moeazysgc, Nothing about Judaism or Christianity supports Islam. Islam originates out of Sabean hate from Genesis 10 and Job 1:15 & 17.
Where do you figure Mary had a play in conception of Jesus? Read the description in the New Testament again: The Holy Spirit was overshadowed by The Father. Keep in mind Jesus is The Father according to Isaiah 9:6.
Jesus died for the words in Mark 14:62. That isn't a suicide, but why I am bothering to explain truth to a Muslim is beyond me.
Genesis 1:1 "BET RESH ALEPH SHIN YOD TAV BET RESH ELOHIM heaven & Earth."
Let's see what this means: "BET (Begotten) RESH (Head) ALEPH (of the Mighty) SHIN (utterly destroyed) YOD (lifted up) TAV (the sacrifice) BET (begotten) RESH (Head) ELOHIM (God springing forth of His Spirit above) heaven & Earth."
Sacrifice TAV is symbolized by a cross.
SHIN is revealed to Muslims to worship a man. Symbol SHIN is a serpent with crown on its' head. Allah is serpent with crown floating above the serpent.
@ABAisSCIENCE Nice channel heathen pagan polytheist, did you forget "Exodus 20:4" idolatrous pagan! Repent for you are deceived how dare you BLASPHEMY N call the Creator of all things a "serpent"! May God help you!!!!!
Are you calling me a polytheist because I believe in a God capable of preserving His words?
Are you saying I must repent because I refuse to listen to a pedophile who wrote words to unify people in hate towards Jews and Christians by abrogation because your god couldn't get the pedophile to seem respectable without my religion being invoked in such a way that abrogation was required to inject the hate?
Are you saying Sabeans are good like the Quran says when Job 1:15 shows otherwise?
@ABAisSCIENCE You follow a hypocrite n liar Paul the False prophet who changed/corrupted the teachings of the Prophet of Nazreth, an apostate/deciever who was a dreamer of of dreams a false prophet! Who inserted n invented false doctrines and elevated Jesus from man created by God to a god man(Pagan), the religion of Jesus was submission to the will of the Creator the One n only God YHWH/ALLAH aka The Father(Meaning the Creator)! God is not a Man/creature(God has no gender)! God is the Unique!!
@moeazysgc, You've no idea how to perceive. The definition of being a Muslim.
I'll help you out. Revelation 11:8-15 is two witnesses to the same God. One is an olive tree (Jews = Israel) & one is a lamp stand (Christians = church). The third group rejoicing over both their deaths in Jerusalem is the dumb Muslim. He watches it on the internet & ships gifts by UPS but 3-1/2 days later he watches the resurrection & rapture of the Jew & Christian & is left with Satan in hell on Earth.
Thanks for this. Let me just say, it makes sense that SAMEKH would have it's constriction of the throat similar to AYIN. Especially since it is much less frequent than Shin/Sin. Then Shin is a sha sound, sin a s- sound and Samekh the s with constriction (protection -as the word indicates.) Either way, great info.
many palestinians know this "language" better than zionist squatters in palestine. but their mastery of "hebrew" is not of avail for them, on the contrary, when they come to a "check point" with zionazi soldiers who origin from (for example) the former soviet union who are less fluent in "hebrew"...(zionists always fight their internal rivalry at the expenses of the "goyim", especially the palestinians)
@omedyashar hello, i'm an arab, and i noticed that you pronounced a letter that we have in the arabic alphabet when you said the word "sana'a" (the very deep, guteral AH letter that comes from the back of the throat), i was wondering if there is an alphabetical letter for that sound in hebrew? because i wanted to spell my family name in hebrew and it has that letter in it. thank you very much.
It appears to that what is being presented in the video is not actually original Hebrew, but rather it is being based on the Masoretic text and someone's interpretation of the sounds being attributed. I was told by a Jewish Hebrew Scholar that no one knows for a certainty how ancient Hebrew originally sounded.
you are liar , you are born jew, because you pronounce , h'it at 3:14 in your video, why you are liar? you give a bad image a jews. hehehehehehehehehehe
To any intelligent being, my contention is: why would nobody never want to know about the one faith [i.e. Islam] or read the one scripture [i.e. Quran], which is at the centre of almost all global political, social, legal...etc subjects? Think about it!
@axatoramus Shut up idiot! Who are you to say that! At least this man can pronounce bet the way it should be pronounced! Unlike other teachers pronouncing it BEYT!! I find his pronunciation very very good! And someone who's learning should listen to him!
thanks for taking the time to make this. it would be nice if those who are unsatisfied with this video would make their own. then we could all get some perspective.
I don't why everyone has to criticize! I'm just someone glad to be able to hear this alphabet and am thankful that this young man has thought enough of 'me' to post this info!
I think it is ironic that the original hebrews must learn their God given language from the jew-ish people. There is no J in hebrew but this sound was inserted by european illuminati to confuse christian and keep the original hebrews in the dark. Imposters need to confess to Elohim all the wrongs they perpetrate in the name of hebrew.
I'd like to also add that modern Israeli hebrew uses very similar sounds to that as used in Yiddish - Resh for instance sounds exactly like the Yiddish reysh sound, more like the french Parisian r. Khet and chaf also sound alike in both languages... Ayin is of course pronunced EH as in bet in Yiddish, but in hebrew its a glottal stop, but no ashkenazic israelis pronunce this.. this is pronunced as in aleph. I think thats all, because when I read hebrew, to me it sounds like yiddish phonolgy.
I guess the key to reconstructing the pronunciation of "Samikh" is in comparing it with some other languages. The letter maps to Simkath which is believed to have the "X" sounding elements when mapped either as "ks" as in ale-KS-ander/ale-GZ-ander in Western traditions, "sk" as in ale-SK-ander in Semitic traditions, or "ksh" as in the Indian La-KSh-mi... however there is another manner in which Lakshmi is pronounced, which is La-chsh-mi which might be what "Samikh" really is...
Wait, So for the word 'Gadol' your suppose to say 'Radol' with french R? I am so confused with the gimmel talk, It I say 'Gadol' with the sound like Good it's wrong? Please explain. :)
I have a yemenite israeli friend and she pronounces everything normal.
The only people that pronounce the hebrew weird are the people who say for example ' mechonis' instead of 'mechonit'. But all sefardim/mizrachi jews pronounce the hebrew good, even yemenites.They just have their own style of hebrew I guess.
I started studing Hebrew a couple of weeks ago and I bought myself a book with 3 CD's and 1 DVD that comes along with and can you imagine that authors don't explain the alphabet the way you do? Actually they don't do it at all.
I'm brazilian and Hebrew is very difficult, but also beautiful and interesting.
I do love the Hebrew songs. Even the anthem "HATIKVA" has an special melody.
I just read alot of the comments and I see a bunch of confused idiots. Only the real Israelites are gonna speak real Hebrew. And the real Israelites arent in the Land of Israel either, cuz if they were, this world wouldnt be so fucked up.
Zephaniah 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
Pretty good buddy! The word you're looking for, for the "alef" is "glottal stop". A for the "veth", there is evidence that it was originally pronounced as a soft "b" much as in Spanish. 'Ayin is a true consonant; it is never considered a vowel (except in Yiddish, of course). The Qof is not Qoof, but Qof - as in "monkey". The last letter is "taw"/"thaw" - not "tav" and you should know this. Otherwise I commend you my friend!
@omedyashar I love this video. It inspired me to learn Biblical Hebrew. I was wondering, were you born Jewish? From were do your ancestors come? Yemen?
@TheSexymonkey567 You do realize REAL Hebrew did not have any vowels? Jews are not Judahites/Israelites, they have been impostors for a long time. Its insane to believe that the most mongrel people of all are some "pure" bloodline. Jesus told us exactly who these people are and what they are about.
nice explanation. it's always interesting to see what crazy sounds other people have in their languages.
i know all the sounds of french, german, english, but was quite delighted to find you have 3 types of "h" - the regluar, constricted vocal cords and the "bach" one... i only knew of 2 such sounds. also the distinction between the 2 types of v is interesting.
i have never seen a dot in a gimel. when writing a gimel to make a G sound, i've always been told to add what looks like an apostrophe above the gimel.
If you learn Torah or pray from a Sidur, I'm positive you have seen a dot in a gimel before, you just didn't notice it. I'm positive because it is an extremely common occurance (unlike a dot in the resh, heh, or alef).
The dot in a gimal makes a 'J' sound only in the San'ani version of Yemenite Hebrew. But you're right that In modern Hebrew one adds what looks like an apostrophe, on the upper left side of the gimal to make it a 'J' sound.
The W sound is the 6th letter in the Hebrew alphabet. Is it possible that w w w is the 666? I personally believe that besm Allah is the 666 or In the name of Allah.
If the world wide web is to be used to control buying & selling it's likely an inserted microchip would be used by global positioning satellite to track people along with their purchasing.
If John were to hear an individual say, w w w what letter would he chose to write that sound to him? Obviously the Greek is all we have.
Allah, or besm Allah is not 666. Allah is the "God" name for Muslim people. An unknown or false god, because it (or he) is not known by revelation, via word of God as recorded in scripture. Where did Allah come from? God our Father in Heaven is a real being known by revelation as recorded in scripture, and personal revelation to us individually by His spirit (the Holy Ghost) through prayer, scripture study and obedience to His commandments.
Someone told me many years ago that "visa" represented 666. I can't see the "world wide web" controlling buying and selling. The 666 as recorded in John will be the number on the forehead or hand in order to buy or sell. We can understand that a world order or economy must be in place for this to come to pass. John 13 the "fierce-looking beasts" represent earthly kingdoms controlled by Satan.
@chris77anna, thanks for getting back to me. I think the people of the beast are the Muslims. As the letter to the first beast ends in Revelation 13:9 in the same way the letter to the churches end in chapter 2 &3. Thus reading Revelation 13:10 I can only think of the beginning of Islam or Muslims. What religion came from one man? Muhammed is likely that man listed in Revelation 13:18.
If we agree that the "dragon" spoken by John 12 is the devil, Satan, and he sets up or uses earthly kingdoms to do his work, i.e., empires, institutions, false religions, etc. I believe these are "beasts". Daniel 7 "The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth..." -7:23 But in contrast beast John 4:6 is descriptive of heaven, the paradise of God, the happiness of man, and of beasts (animal life).
I don't believe the Muslim people, speaking collectively, are or is the beast in John 13. The dragon (Satan) needs beasts (earthly kingdoms) to do his work, keep people away from God/Christ. Yet John 13:4-5 the beast as an individual (anti-Christ) of whom Satan (dragon) gives power to to deceive people to worship him.
According to most linguistics, the only certain influence from Arabic upon the Hebrew letters is "jimal" and "guf." -- and not all Yemenite Jews said jimal and guf.
Even with that being the case, the Arabic influence on Yemenite Hebrew is far less than the Germanic influence on Ashkenazi Hebrew.
And tell me, which language is closer linguistically to the Holy Language - Arabic, or German?
@omedyashar The Correct Pronunciation is the Sephardi Way! I do not only Say this as a Sephardi but also because this is how Modern Hebrew is now Being Spoken! Do not give me this Crap about Arabic!
@omedyashar hmm, i have to disagree that Hebrew is holy language today. all the languages are corrupted since the tower of Babel. ---Zephaniah 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a PURE LANGUAGE
Honestly I dont know why your christian friends would be upset that you became a jew,,,you probably have a better understanding of the big picture then any of us,,,im a chrsitian but if I had a chance to go to Israel and study I would turn jewish but still believe in Jesus as messiah,,,and I believe he will return and complete the phrophesy many rabbi believe Jesus is the messiah more do not but I think your doing a great thing and GOD will reveal truth to you for keeping the law
@candiceevans1 I realize saying "Turn Jewish" yet still believe in Jesus sounds rediculous, but be that as it may my feeling is that Judaism is the basis for all three monotheistic rel and I believe Christ wanted us to keep the law therefore Chrsitians really should be messianic Jews
REVELATION 2:9: I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. 3:9: Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
I saw a video of you reading. I noticed that you use the Yemenite vowel system. While the Yemenites certainly have the consanants, their vowels are deficient and don't work with Tiberian vocalization. Surely you know this. Sticking to a defecient vowel system is no better than an Ashkenaz clinging to his savs and oys.
OmedYashar, Yemenite Hebrew is closer to Biblical Hebrew. Although I am not being biased despite my Yemenite background - but it IS perhaps most purest than any of the current Yiddish-Germanic opera that they have in the "shuls" of Ashkenazim. Nothin' against Ashkas - but it surprises me that they go into extreme fits and madness when one glorifies the purity of Yemenite Hebrew and bash it as having been influenced by Arabs. If it was, than we must thank the Arabs for that.
All of these letters have perfect Arabic counterparts! Haha, this has made it so easy to pronounce, it is only writing that is a challenge for me. Peace from Beirut / San Francisco !
I do not deny the Jewishness of the Ethiopian Jews - even if they are descendents of converts (as some say) -- this in no way changes their Jewishness. It seems to me that they held on to what they could as best as they could....
....But as for the 'pronunciation of the Falasha (Ethiopian) Jews' ....I have to say I don't know what you're referring to - surely not to their traditional Hebrew pronuncation... because as far as I've known they didn't even have a Hebrew Hhumash... so I would be VERY surprised if they had a Hebrew pronunciation... I've been under the impression they didn't have Hebrew.
This is a wonderful video. I have been looking for a video like this for a long time. Thanks for providing such accurate but yet delightfully untechnical accounts of some of the harder to pronounce letters, like ayn.
What makes you think that it's any more influenced by Arabic than the European pronuncations of Hebrew are influenced by European languages?
The influence by Arabic upon Teimoni and Iraqi Hebrew is minimal -- FAR less than the influence of European languages upon Ashkenazi pronuncation.
There are endless factors that lead one to this conclusion. I've been wanting to make a video on this for a long time. Hope to do so within the next few months, b-ezrath HaShem.
1. you should reference the division of letters according to where they come out of the mouth. for example aleph, hay, het and ayin all come from the the throat. i am having trouble finding the original source. cf. rashi on lev. 19:16
2. a gimel comes from the same place as yod, chaf, quf (soft palate). how does the gimel hazak (pronounced as a j) reconcile with that?
3. there were more than one system of speaking hebrew even in talmudic times. i believe yemenite is closest to "tiberian"
I agree with you regarding the 'j' sound. As far as I'm aware, In Yemen most Yemenite Jews pronounced the hard-gimal as a g as in 'go;' but the Jews around the capital of Yemen pronounced it as 'j.' Because the most respected rabbis were mainly around the capital, once they came to Israel their level of influence (along with the 'j') increased upon the other Yemenite Jews from other areas of Yemen.
All indications point otherwise, being that throughout the Middle Eastern Jewish communities these sounds were preserved until around 100 years ago.
I think it's more likely due to the fact that if tet, even in its proper pronuncation, is closer to latin t than if a taw were to be mistaken for a thaw, or a kaf for a khaf.
Hi, interesting video. One thing you didn't mention is that the Hebrew alphabet was adopted from the Assyrian/Aramaic alphabet. It's the same as The Assryain alphabet. :))
But then again the Assyrian alphabet was Adopted from Paleo-Hebrew (formerly known as phonecian, before it was discovered that Older texts using the alphabet in hebrew existed)
So it went like this
Paleo Hebrew given by God
Semitic Gentiles adapt and Change it
Jews are Exiled
Jews adopt Aramaic script based on their old script/Samaritans retain old script and it develops in a different direction
Thanks for this revealing video. I often heard from teachers that hebrew letters originally had different pronunciations but could never listen to it though. I am very interested in linguistics and love it to hear phonologic differences between languages and dialects. For someone interested in hebrew like me, this video is very informative.
I can't speak Arabic and have difficulty making the exactly modern Arabic-style teth and sadi. What i do intead is saying t+heth at the same time, or, for sadi, s+heth at the same time
First off, thank you omedyashar for this "tutorial". I have found it very interesting. And, as far as I know, it's the only one of its kind on youtube.
Irtidad, your comments are also very enlightening, and you make a convincing case that Yemenite Hebrew did not fully preserve the "original" Hebrew (although, from my research, it comes very close). I have heard that Tiberian Hebrew vocalization is even more "authentic" than Temani Hebrew. Is this true? If so, are there any people who...
still speak it? It would be great to hear a "tutorial" of Tiberian Hebrew vocalization. I wish there were youtube videos for all of the different kinds of Hebrew pronunciations: Iraqi, Khorasani, Moroccan, Sephardi...
Also, as far as Samekh is concerned, it most probably did have a simple S sound. But this was indeed its own unique sound, because the letter Shin with a dot on the left side did NOT have a regular S sound until Tiberian pronunciation (medieval, i.e. not really Hebrew) merged it with Samekh. In ancient Hebrew, Shin with left dot had a lateral fricative sound, /ɬ/, a rare sound that is most famously found in Welsh and represented therein with a double L.
Yeah, and Shin+L-dot versus Samekh is the only merged pair of consonants in Tiberian. But Tiberian vocalization preserves the sound of other consonants very well, and its vowels are also considered the most conservative one in all masoretic texts.
And similarly, I think you should deal with the consonants which sometimes take Dagesh (the "dot") more precisely as well. You deal with them with the same underlying attitude that the modern Israeli language deals with them, i.e. as separate letters representing separate phonemes, albeit you apply the Dagesh distinction to all occlusives, while modern Israeli only applies it to Bet, Pe, and Kaf.
The better way to treat these pairs is as the ancient Hebrew language did—as mere variations of one another. The dagesh distinction was NOT phonemic in ancient Hebrew, it was purely allophonic. Therefore [v] was simply how one pronounced the /b/ phoneme (represented by Bēṯ) when it came singly between vowels, it was not considered a separate phoneme; in other words, [b] and [v] were simply two realizations of the same /b/ consonant depending on surrounding sounds.
The tradition of marking Dagesh was begun simply for the sake of precision, just as the Qur'an is always written fully voweled even though most of the time this isn't necessary. However, once the Hebrew language died, the Dagesh distinction became more important because in many of the languages which Jews thereafter spoke, such as Yiddish, there was indeed a phonemic distinction between [b] and [v] and so on.
The reason why this approach is important is because it gets at the ancient Hebrew pattern of pronunciation rather than the modern Israeli pronunciation which, despite enormous efforts by revivalists, tends to have a Yiddish influence. For example, the Israeli phrase for '2nd grade' is כתה בית, which is pronounced /ki'ta bet/. When one says "in 2nd grade" in Israeli (בכתה בית), it is pronounced /beki'ta bet/, with a hard Kaf.
But because this Kaf occurs singly between two vowels, the Hebrew pattern would've been to soften it into [x], the 'Kh' sound, thus making it /bexi'ta bet/. And that is why you should treat the occlusives as individual letters which have variant realizations as fricatives. Thus if one understands this pattern, one does not rely so much on the diacritic marks because one can predict the sounds simply based on Hebrew phonological patterns.
This particular point also demonstrates why the Arabic-influenced pronunciations of Hebrew are not sufficient to qualify as the "original" pronunciation, despite their being Semitic. Arabic has never had such allophonic variation between occlusives and fricatives, while ancient Hebrew did. Therefore, because this pattern existed in ancient Hebrew but exists neither in Yiddish nor in Arabic, it appears to have disappeared entirely except for in the realm of academia.
Also, your explanation of the letters Aleph and Ayin seems lacking to me. These letters are indeed FULL consonants, they don't "lack a particular sound of their own." They were realized as /ʔ/ and /ʕ/ respectively, which are just as good of consonants as any other. That being said, you do pronounce them relatively well, but you should just explain them more accurately.
It seems that you are basing your pronunciation on Yemenite Hebrew, which is good in that it preserves many of the Semitic consonants, such as Ayin and Ḥēṯ, which are lost in Israeli because of (Indo-European) Yiddish influence (see Ghil'ad Zuckermann).
But Yemenite Hebrew is NOT "original" Hebrew, it's Hebrew with an Arabic influence. For example, pronunciation of Gimel as [dʒ] (as in 'judge') NEVER existed in spoken Hebrew (spoken from ~C13 BC to ~C1 AD). This realization of the letter is purely due to Arabic, which changed proto-Semitic /g/ into /ɟ/ by the time of Classical Arabic, and from /ɟ/ into the current realizations of Ġīm in the various modern Arabic dialects, including the [dʒ] of Yemenite Arabic.
Indeed Yemenite Hebrew has a very complete and intact system of consonants, almost identical to that of Tiberian Vocalization except for gimmel with a dot and qoph.
However, the quality of vowels in Yemenite Hebrew is kinda far from that of Tiberian V. I mean segol, shewa, and holam. Qames`-gadol in it is very conservative though.
Thank you SO much for your comments. I agree with virtually everything you've written, including what you said about alef and aiyin.
I also agree that 'j' is incorrect, but I did not say it is correct in the video. I mentioned it out of respect towards my teachers and for information... because few Jews realize that there is a pronuncation of Hebrew with a 'j' - regardless of the fact that I'm convinced it's due to Arabic influence.
@Irtidad Yemenite Hebrew is "CLOSEST" to the original Hebrew. This we acknowledge and historians admit is the fact. So, how did Hebrew sound like if it didn't have an Arabic influence? Definitely not like Yiddish. Hebrew is SUPPOSED to sound Semitic - like Arabic and Aramaic. NOT GERMANIC. Even today, the Israeli accent with it's French Ashkenazi Resh proves that after 3,000 years the Yemenites were able to keep the RESH sound far more better than Ashkenazi Hebrew. I can't stand this jealousy!
I certainly did not deny that the Yemenite pronunciation is the closest to original Biblical Hebrew. My point was that we must nonetheless make a distinction between "closest" and the actual original.
The predominant pronuncation of "Modern Hebrew" in Israel is a simplified pronunciation of Hebrew. It's kind of a half-way point between most traditional Middle Eastern pronunciations of Hebrew and the traditional European pronunciations of Hebrew. So "Modern Hebrew" is kind of like the MSA of Hebrew.
The letter pronunciations in this clip are based purely on traditional Middle Eastern formS of Hebrew and comments on the Hebrew pronunciation in ancient Jewish lit. Linguists only confirm it.
I thought the Temanim had it closest, except for the 'Guf'. I was unaware that they pronounced 'Tzaadi' as '9aadi'. I knew that the Arabic 'Saad' and '.9aad' derived from 'Tzaadi'; but it's interesting that 'Tzaadi' and '9aad' should have the same sound. I joked with a friend, "Wouldn't it be funny if they adopted both 'Guf' and 'Sav' rather than 'Qof' and 'Tav'? 'Qat' would be 'Gas'!"
Correct. It's '7a.' This was common among all Middle Eastern pronunciations of Hebrew. This pronunciation is being lost in popular speech among Jews of recent Middle Eastern decent of my own generation, due to popularization of simplified 'Modern Hebrew' pronunciation. However, I assure you that you can be easily understood by other speakers of Modern Hebrew if you correctly pronounce 3Ayin, 7et, Resh, Quf, Tet, &
9adi. You probably won't be understood if u use Waw, Thaw, Dhalet, & Ghimal.
Any lazy American Hebrew speakers who may want to criticize those who continue to use Hhet (7a), 3Ayin, etc... even in Modern Hebrew just because it's no longer the majority pronunciation of the new generation... those same Americans should first stop using the letter Heh themselves... because this is also dropped. I say this, because despite the common HORRIBLE American pronunciation of Hebrew, they almost ALWAYS make a point to pronounce Heh, though most Israelis do not, lol.
Though today most somewhat traditional Yemenites only know 'Guf' and 'Jimal,' from my reading and discussions with Yemenites here in Israel... and with others who have researched the issue, it was mainly only around the city of San'a that they had 'Guf' and Jimal.' What happened is that upon arriving to Israel, their interaction increased, and since most the teachers were from around San'a, the 'Guf' and 'Jimal' got standardized as 'Yemenite' here in Israel, though in Yemen there was variation.
In the more rural areas of Yemen many Yemenite Jews had the 8uf/quf of fuS7a Arabic, and the Gimal (with dot inside) just the same as most other non-Yemenite communities; and it was in these rural places that most Yemenite Jews lived - all throughout the country. But these communities were generally less educated, and produced less leaders. This is why their pronunciations are less known.
The Gimal WITHOUT a dot inside the letter is Ghimal, like '3, similar to a Parisian R, NOT on the teeth.
I don't really know parisian R's, so it is Ghayn? I think I've seen in Judeo-Arabic Gimel with dot underneath as Ghayn (see JewishEncyclopedia, Arabic use among Jews). Thanks for the info on Qof. Did you know Egyptian Arabic turns Jeem into Geem? Opposite of Temani Ivreet eh? :)
Correct. It is Ghayn... only in Hebrew it's GHimal. This is only when the letter is WITHOUT a dot (dagesh) in the middle of the letter -- when the letter appears in Hebrew, not in Judeo-Arabic. You are correct in your statement about Ghayn in Judeo-Arabic. Many Yemenite Jewish communities outside the area of Yemen also said Geem (Gimal) instead of Jimal.
I'm just slowly trying to learn hebrew on my own online. I would love to learn to say it correctly, which I honestly believe you're doing it right, but there are absolutely no resources or ways for me to learn it.
All you have to do is memorize the shapes of the letters with their names... you can do this using ANY pronuncation. Once you've learned the letters, according to any pronuncation, then come back to this video and learn how to more properly pronounce those letters. I intend to redo this video with the letters appearing the clip as I say them... eventually.
well i've got the aleph bet basically down..it's just when i'm trying to learn words and how to pronounce them it would be hard to try to convert everything.
It takes time. The best advice I can give you is to read read read -- in Hebrew of course, even if you don't understand. It's impossible to understand everything at once. You just need to familiarize yourself with the patterns of the language, even if you don't understand them at first. Try saying one of the Psalms daily, for example. Or 2 or three times a day. This itself should help greatly.
Hey I have another question. I found a program online where I could type in hebrew. There are two types, one called nikkud with vowel markings, and the other called hebrew(israel) and there are no special markings. Is this how it's really done in israel? And in the israel part, you can't even put dots inside of the letters like you were saying in this video. Soo i'm just confused about that. And also i've decided to try to learn to speak it correctly, because of my realization that(TBC)
You're unfortunately right about 'orthodox judaism,' but it's not supposed to be that way, as you know... just as any moralistic religion doesn't teaches such. It's a matter of the general tendencies of humankind. Regardless of what religion or its proximity to theological correctness, even with those groups closest to the 'truth' -- the majority of the time the majority of its members are only members due to the situation they were born or raised in, not by conviction or sincerity.
Also, despite that carefully Torah observant Jews are a minority of the Jewish people... they are still HIGHLY diverse. 'Orthodox Judaism' isn't an organized denomination like 'Reform,' 'Conservative,' etc...
By saying hebrew(israel) in the program, they don't mean to say that in Israel niqqudoth (the vowel dots) aren't used. All it means is that this is how the word will most often appear in adult Israeli non-religious literature. The vowel markings are used ALL THE TIME in Israel, but mainly for children or in religious texts and works on Jewish law, where the niqqudoth ensure proper pronunciation and lessen likelihood of misunderstanding key points of Jewish law.
Niqqudoth are also used in any / all Israeli books, even if the great majority of the book is written without niqudoth (vowel markings), when a word appears which will almost certainly be unclear as to what its meaning is if vowel markings aren't added. There are not many words like this in Hebrew, where more than one word has the same spelling -- and even when there are such words, usually the context or grammatical sentence structure informs you of the intended meaning, but not always.
Also, when writing Hebrew, we don't add the vowel-markings, not even the one dot that appears in the middle of letters to indicate whether it is hard or smooth (B! / vvv; K! / kkkhhh, etc...), unless you write a word which you are fairly certain people wouldn't know how to pronounce unless you added vowels (ei: uncommon words or names).
There is NO DIFFERENCE between the pronuncation of words in Hebrew, between whether it is with or without written vowels. Vowels are unneeded 4 words u know.
No... not at first. That's just going off my experience though. I would suggest first getting used to reading Hebrew with niqudoth first... until you get to a point where you can read fluently -- with niqudoth... and then with time you will NATURALLY be able to read without niquddoth. I think this is the easiest way to go.
It's nice that there are still some people that care about the traditional pronunciation. I've trained myself to pronounce all of those sounds, since I've been studying Arabic for a couple of years, and Standard Arabic has all of them, excluding Gimmel. I would like to speak Hebrew this way, but aside of the fact that no one would understand me, I just don't want to face people's reaction.
I understand your concern over people's reactions. But there is no other way that they will learn. If we keep it hidden and act as though it's a shame, it will remain hidden and considered an embarassment.
In the meantime, you SHOULD pronounce the letters properly at least during Qiryat Shema, public reading of the Torah, and Birkath Kohanim (if you are a Kohen). B/c at these times it is halakha to do so.
People would understand you if you pronounce Hhet and Aiyin as well. I do.
You are obviously right, but I still need to think about it. Some people can just ignore society's pressure (לחץ חברתי? I don't know how to say it in English), and so do I, sometimes. But, unfortunately, not always.
The funny thing is that some people actually think that the correct pronunciation is "bad" and "foreign". But the common pronunciation is so shallow and boring! I dislike it very much.
lol. It is funny. It's irony... kinda sad too :( Such people are so sure of themselves and thereby spouting ignorance proudly :(
You could say "social pressure."
I also dislike the common pronuncation... it is shallow and boring, especially after you become familiar with proper pronuncation... but the main reason I dislike it is because it causes us to violate halakha, and is a sign of the galuth (exile) -- which antisemites use to "prove" our non-Semitic origins.
Ironically... a great many of modern Israelis, despite their bad pronuncation of Hebrew in our days, come from individuals whos Hebrew pronuncation was better when they FIRST arrived to Israel. Of course, here I'm referring to pronuncation and not to vocabulary or fluency.
Anyway, I'm starving. Gotta go eat. May HaShem guide and bless you in all your ways :)
I agree that the Yemenite dialect most closely preserves the correct pronunciation. I wanted to say too that you pronounce Het and qof much better than most people. Nice research.
Thank you for your comments. It's encouraging to read such. As you might have noticed, not everyone shares your understanding. I can't help but be inclined to think that their disagreement is due to subjectiveness, bias, and lack of intellectually honest research.
That's correct for the Jews in the area around San'a, where they also usually said jimal instead of gimal. However, the Yemenite Jews further away from San'a pronounced it as quf, the same as Iraqi Jews do. Upon arriving in Israel, the influence of San'ani pronuncation increased, due to the influence of prominent Yemenite rabbis from San'a.
Linguistic patters among Semitic languages and these languages' common reactions to non-Semitic lanugages and ancient transliterations of Hebrew into other languages... and oral tradition :D
My interpretation of Revelation 11:8-15 stands as proof Islam is going to hell prior even to Satan because Jesus hates it more than any other religion and the Muslims will watch the Jew and Christian resurrect and rapture physically before their eyes and know they are the wicked but still not bow until God shakes the Earth to force it (their bowing) physically while their minds still hate. This is why Muslims get hell.
ABAisSCIENCE 1 week ago
The only religion to go to utter ruin one thousand years before Satan is Islam because when a crucified Jesus kills Muslims so that the blood of Muslims goes to the bridle bit of a horse in judgement against them for what they do to Jews and Christians it is over for their stupid asses.
Read Zechariah 14:18-19 and know that in Egypt today they are begging for the next Jewish Holocaust. God knew Muslims were fools from the beginning. God always tells the end from the beginning.
ABAisSCIENCE 1 week ago
My God is not a serpent.
The Muslim's god is the best of deceivers which is a description of Satan (the serpent).
ABAisSCIENCE 1 week ago
@ABAisSCIENCE The Bible God and the God of the Quran are One n the same you ingorant Baboon!!! The God of the Bible also decieves=1 Kings 22:23,2 Chronicles 18:22,Jeremiah 4:10,Jeremiah 20:7,Ezekiel 14:9,2 Thessalonians 2:11)!! You are a pagan n polytheist because you worship a Man(Jesus) sent to the isrealites n the Holy spirit who has come before and after Jesus who was Created miraculous by God without the intervention of a male/Father and equal/ascribe partners with them to the Creator!!
moeazysgc 1 week ago
@moeazysgc, Beginning of Islam is allah saying god is too weak to preserve words so he has to stoop to a pedophile to write a Quran full of abrogations by either a dumb allah who can't make up his mind or a pedophile who is forked tongued. To seem like a real god allah has to endorse Jesus while making allah perform a miracle to ruin Jesus' testimony by making it appear Jesus was crucified either because allah is malicious or just too dumb to know what happens next (worship of Jesus).
ABAisSCIENCE 1 week ago
@ABAisSCIENCE Watch you mouth you pig eating scumbag!!!
moeazysgc 1 week ago
@moeazysgc, Typical Muslim can't say anything of substance or anything to combat truth. Ever figure out what that means about allah and the dumb Muhammed, peace be upon him per Matthew 10:28, for his wicked and useless Quran?
ABAisSCIENCE 1 week ago
@ABAisSCIENCE Typical Christian can't say anything without mocking the Prophet May God help you you use a against me a corrupt n changed book yet can't even bring any logical arguments plus the Torah that supports the Quran! U worship a god man that can die(when God can not die), a god that has three split personalities yet is one Lol n has children with his own Creation n commits suicide for the sins of the guilty! i sorry to offend you but how does a little bit of ur own medicine taste like!
moeazysgc 1 week ago
@moeazysgc, Nothing about Judaism or Christianity supports Islam. Islam originates out of Sabean hate from Genesis 10 and Job 1:15 & 17.
Where do you figure Mary had a play in conception of Jesus? Read the description in the New Testament again: The Holy Spirit was overshadowed by The Father. Keep in mind Jesus is The Father according to Isaiah 9:6.
Jesus died for the words in Mark 14:62. That isn't a suicide, but why I am bothering to explain truth to a Muslim is beyond me.
ABAisSCIENCE 1 week ago
Genesis 1:1 "BET RESH ALEPH SHIN YOD TAV BET RESH ELOHIM heaven & Earth."
Let's see what this means: "BET (Begotten) RESH (Head) ALEPH (of the Mighty) SHIN (utterly destroyed) YOD (lifted up) TAV (the sacrifice) BET (begotten) RESH (Head) ELOHIM (God springing forth of His Spirit above) heaven & Earth."
Sacrifice TAV is symbolized by a cross.
SHIN is revealed to Muslims to worship a man. Symbol SHIN is a serpent with crown on its' head. Allah is serpent with crown floating above the serpent.
ABAisSCIENCE 1 month ago
@ABAisSCIENCE Nice channel heathen pagan polytheist, did you forget "Exodus 20:4" idolatrous pagan! Repent for you are deceived how dare you BLASPHEMY N call the Creator of all things a "serpent"! May God help you!!!!!
moeazysgc 1 week ago
@moeazysgc,
Are you calling me a polytheist because I believe in a God capable of preserving His words?
Are you saying I must repent because I refuse to listen to a pedophile who wrote words to unify people in hate towards Jews and Christians by abrogation because your god couldn't get the pedophile to seem respectable without my religion being invoked in such a way that abrogation was required to inject the hate?
Are you saying Sabeans are good like the Quran says when Job 1:15 shows otherwise?
ABAisSCIENCE 1 week ago
@ABAisSCIENCE You follow a hypocrite n liar Paul the False prophet who changed/corrupted the teachings of the Prophet of Nazreth, an apostate/deciever who was a dreamer of of dreams a false prophet! Who inserted n invented false doctrines and elevated Jesus from man created by God to a god man(Pagan), the religion of Jesus was submission to the will of the Creator the One n only God YHWH/ALLAH aka The Father(Meaning the Creator)! God is not a Man/creature(God has no gender)! God is the Unique!!
moeazysgc 1 week ago
@moeazysgc, You've no idea how to perceive. The definition of being a Muslim.
I'll help you out. Revelation 11:8-15 is two witnesses to the same God. One is an olive tree (Jews = Israel) & one is a lamp stand (Christians = church). The third group rejoicing over both their deaths in Jerusalem is the dumb Muslim. He watches it on the internet & ships gifts by UPS but 3-1/2 days later he watches the resurrection & rapture of the Jew & Christian & is left with Satan in hell on Earth.
ABAisSCIENCE 1 week ago
Some of the letters names are similar to our Arabic letters names.
Mjayiesm 1 month ago
Thanks for this. Let me just say, it makes sense that SAMEKH would have it's constriction of the throat similar to AYIN. Especially since it is much less frequent than Shin/Sin. Then Shin is a sha sound, sin a s- sound and Samekh the s with constriction (protection -as the word indicates.) Either way, great info.
SIROFNOBLERECORDS 4 months ago
many palestinians know this "language" better than zionist squatters in palestine. but their mastery of "hebrew" is not of avail for them, on the contrary, when they come to a "check point" with zionazi soldiers who origin from (for example) the former soviet union who are less fluent in "hebrew"...(zionists always fight their internal rivalry at the expenses of the "goyim", especially the palestinians)
zobielamouche1 5 months ago
@omedyashar hello, i'm an arab, and i noticed that you pronounced a letter that we have in the arabic alphabet when you said the word "sana'a" (the very deep, guteral AH letter that comes from the back of the throat), i was wondering if there is an alphabetical letter for that sound in hebrew? because i wanted to spell my family name in hebrew and it has that letter in it. thank you very much.
nourabella 5 months ago
It appears to that what is being presented in the video is not actually original Hebrew, but rather it is being based on the Masoretic text and someone's interpretation of the sounds being attributed. I was told by a Jewish Hebrew Scholar that no one knows for a certainty how ancient Hebrew originally sounded.
reslight 6 months ago
@reslight
well, we can reconstruct ancient pronunciation by historical method
zheuhang 6 months ago
you are liar , you are born jew, because you pronounce , h'it at 3:14 in your video, why you are liar? you give a bad image a jews. hehehehehehehehehehe
coulacoula 7 months ago
Finaly a video of this muslim terrorist sympathizer that I don't have to flag because it's truth.
bout time you you spoke some truth.
azkeyz 7 months ago
Very interesting, thanks, are there videos where we can hear spoken Yemeni Hebrew?!
ireylo 8 months ago
Thanks :)
njshrivnauth 9 months ago
original Hebrew doesn't exist, only aramaic
PantsInTheFamily 9 months ago
i want to download this video n save it in my hd n my phone
mrmink9 9 months ago
i want to download this video n save it in my hd n phone
mrmink9 9 months ago
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To any intelligent being, my contention is: why would nobody never want to know about the one faith [i.e. Islam] or read the one scripture [i.e. Quran], which is at the centre of almost all global political, social, legal...etc subjects? Think about it!
robin4good 10 months ago
How do I say House or Home in hebrew ?
Toniito 11 months ago
@Toniito "bet", or some say "bayit"
beepu2 11 months ago
@axatoramus Shut up idiot! Who are you to say that! At least this man can pronounce bet the way it should be pronounced! Unlike other teachers pronouncing it BEYT!! I find his pronunciation very very good! And someone who's learning should listen to him!
sahta007 1 year ago
thanks for taking the time to make this. it would be nice if those who are unsatisfied with this video would make their own. then we could all get some perspective.
holomew 1 year ago
@axatoramus
nowadays it sounds like the french R.
and yea i hear ya about the Iraqi and Yemeni,they pronounce everything as it should.
IsraeI4ever 1 year ago
@axatoramus
What qualifies you to make that determination?
omedyashar 1 year ago 6
@omedyashar
This is the hebrew of 5000 years ago in the "new" hebrew we dont have so hard pronunciation.
niiix2 1 year ago
@niiix2
ahaha ture...i don't understand why all these rules hebrew is much easier than all this shit....
rotemsh1 7 months ago
9/11 was an outside job!
pete5668 1 year ago
Thanks. I don't know Hebrew yet and this helped me to learn more.
belshazzar1983 1 year ago
I don't why everyone has to criticize! I'm just someone glad to be able to hear this alphabet and am thankful that this young man has thought enough of 'me' to post this info!
paperbarnes 1 year ago 6
@paperbarnes
If my words didn't arouse irrational emotions on the part of the unlearned, I would be concerned that my message is unneeded. It's a good sign ;)
omedyashar 1 year ago 4
I think it is ironic that the original hebrews must learn their God given language from the jew-ish people. There is no J in hebrew but this sound was inserted by european illuminati to confuse christian and keep the original hebrews in the dark. Imposters need to confess to Elohim all the wrongs they perpetrate in the name of hebrew.
RomeyBlack 1 year ago
I'd like to also add that modern Israeli hebrew uses very similar sounds to that as used in Yiddish - Resh for instance sounds exactly like the Yiddish reysh sound, more like the french Parisian r. Khet and chaf also sound alike in both languages... Ayin is of course pronunced EH as in bet in Yiddish, but in hebrew its a glottal stop, but no ashkenazic israelis pronunce this.. this is pronunced as in aleph. I think thats all, because when I read hebrew, to me it sounds like yiddish phonolgy.
Nadav34 1 year ago
@Nadav34
no one is pronouncing ayin as it should nowadays, only the elders
and yea resh is like the french R
IsraeI4ever 1 year ago
يتكلم عن الحروف العربي وا العبري
yyyouseff 1 year ago
I guess the key to reconstructing the pronunciation of "Samikh" is in comparing it with some other languages. The letter maps to Simkath which is believed to have the "X" sounding elements when mapped either as "ks" as in ale-KS-ander/ale-GZ-ander in Western traditions, "sk" as in ale-SK-ander in Semitic traditions, or "ksh" as in the Indian La-KSh-mi... however there is another manner in which Lakshmi is pronounced, which is La-chsh-mi which might be what "Samikh" really is...
hypnotix2000 1 year ago
Wait, So for the word 'Gadol' your suppose to say 'Radol' with french R? I am so confused with the gimmel talk, It I say 'Gadol' with the sound like Good it's wrong? Please explain. :)
I have a yemenite israeli friend and she pronounces everything normal.
The only people that pronounce the hebrew weird are the people who say for example ' mechonis' instead of 'mechonit'. But all sefardim/mizrachi jews pronounce the hebrew good, even yemenites.They just have their own style of hebrew I guess.
FRYrebecky 1 year ago
@FRYrebecky no you wouldnt say radol it would be "Jadol/Gadol" because the gimmel has a daghesh (dot)
TheSexymonkey567 1 year ago
@TheSexymonkey567 Gotcha, thanks :)
FRYrebecky 1 year ago
BEAUTIFUL, MAN!
Rykhart 1 year ago
Stop Trying to Arabacise Hebrew!
MenechemShaul 1 year ago
Thank You so much for posting this lesson.
I started studing Hebrew a couple of weeks ago and I bought myself a book with 3 CD's and 1 DVD that comes along with and can you imagine that authors don't explain the alphabet the way you do? Actually they don't do it at all.
I'm brazilian and Hebrew is very difficult, but also beautiful and interesting.
I do love the Hebrew songs. Even the anthem "HATIKVA" has an special melody.
Fantastic !!!!
Thanks again!!!!
bigulim18 1 year ago
I just read alot of the comments and I see a bunch of confused idiots. Only the real Israelites are gonna speak real Hebrew. And the real Israelites arent in the Land of Israel either, cuz if they were, this world wouldnt be so fucked up.
Zephaniah 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
ColumbusIsraelites 1 year ago
Thank you. This is very helpful.
TheJoshcush 1 year ago
Pretty good buddy! The word you're looking for, for the "alef" is "glottal stop". A for the "veth", there is evidence that it was originally pronounced as a soft "b" much as in Spanish. 'Ayin is a true consonant; it is never considered a vowel (except in Yiddish, of course). The Qof is not Qoof, but Qof - as in "monkey". The last letter is "taw"/"thaw" - not "tav" and you should know this. Otherwise I commend you my friend!
jewamongyou 1 year ago
@omedyashar I love this video. It inspired me to learn Biblical Hebrew. I was wondering, were you born Jewish? From were do your ancestors come? Yemen?
TheSexymonkey567 1 year ago
@TheSexymonkey567 You do realize REAL Hebrew did not have any vowels? Jews are not Judahites/Israelites, they have been impostors for a long time. Its insane to believe that the most mongrel people of all are some "pure" bloodline. Jesus told us exactly who these people are and what they are about.
ExposeZionistCrimes 1 year ago
nice explanation. it's always interesting to see what crazy sounds other people have in their languages.
i know all the sounds of french, german, english, but was quite delighted to find you have 3 types of "h" - the regluar, constricted vocal cords and the "bach" one... i only knew of 2 such sounds. also the distinction between the 2 types of v is interesting.
also... no m, n, d...interesting.
De4sher 1 year ago
Thank you for the great explanation; much appreciated!
lauren8788 1 year ago
i have never seen a dot in a gimel. when writing a gimel to make a G sound, i've always been told to add what looks like an apostrophe above the gimel.
lauren8788 1 year ago
@lauren8788
If you learn Torah or pray from a Sidur, I'm positive you have seen a dot in a gimel before, you just didn't notice it. I'm positive because it is an extremely common occurance (unlike a dot in the resh, heh, or alef).
The dot in a gimal makes a 'J' sound only in the San'ani version of Yemenite Hebrew. But you're right that In modern Hebrew one adds what looks like an apostrophe, on the upper left side of the gimal to make it a 'J' sound.
omedyashar 1 year ago
The W sound is the 6th letter in the Hebrew alphabet. Is it possible that w w w is the 666? I personally believe that besm Allah is the 666 or In the name of Allah.
If the world wide web is to be used to control buying & selling it's likely an inserted microchip would be used by global positioning satellite to track people along with their purchasing.
If John were to hear an individual say, w w w what letter would he chose to write that sound to him? Obviously the Greek is all we have.
ABAisSCIENCE 1 year ago
Allah, or besm Allah is not 666. Allah is the "God" name for Muslim people. An unknown or false god, because it (or he) is not known by revelation, via word of God as recorded in scripture. Where did Allah come from? God our Father in Heaven is a real being known by revelation as recorded in scripture, and personal revelation to us individually by His spirit (the Holy Ghost) through prayer, scripture study and obedience to His commandments.
chris77anna 1 year ago
Someone told me many years ago that "visa" represented 666. I can't see the "world wide web" controlling buying and selling. The 666 as recorded in John will be the number on the forehead or hand in order to buy or sell. We can understand that a world order or economy must be in place for this to come to pass. John 13 the "fierce-looking beasts" represent earthly kingdoms controlled by Satan.
chris77anna 1 year ago
@chris77anna, thanks for getting back to me. I think the people of the beast are the Muslims. As the letter to the first beast ends in Revelation 13:9 in the same way the letter to the churches end in chapter 2 &3. Thus reading Revelation 13:10 I can only think of the beginning of Islam or Muslims. What religion came from one man? Muhammed is likely that man listed in Revelation 13:18.
ABAisSCIENCE 1 year ago
If we agree that the "dragon" spoken by John 12 is the devil, Satan, and he sets up or uses earthly kingdoms to do his work, i.e., empires, institutions, false religions, etc. I believe these are "beasts". Daniel 7 "The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth..." -7:23 But in contrast beast John 4:6 is descriptive of heaven, the paradise of God, the happiness of man, and of beasts (animal life).
chris77anna 1 year ago
I don't believe the Muslim people, speaking collectively, are or is the beast in John 13. The dragon (Satan) needs beasts (earthly kingdoms) to do his work, keep people away from God/Christ. Yet John 13:4-5 the beast as an individual (anti-Christ) of whom Satan (dragon) gives power to to deceive people to worship him.
chris77anna 1 year ago
dalet is d dont listen to him
with the dot inside
dalet d we dont mees with dot in d
d dot door thats it
ay10ay10ay10 1 year ago
it would have been nice if you had a demonstration to go with the explanation.
faygala2sum 1 year ago
What a beautiful language! God has sure blessed his holy people and will for the rest of time :)
sarabeth1410 1 year ago
GHAYIN=ʿAYIN+RAFEH!! עֿ = غ !
RobTele12 1 year ago
HEBREW IN YEMEN IS ARABIC INFLUENCED!
MenechemShaul 1 year ago
@MenechemShaul
According to most linguistics, the only certain influence from Arabic upon the Hebrew letters is "jimal" and "guf." -- and not all Yemenite Jews said jimal and guf.
Even with that being the case, the Arabic influence on Yemenite Hebrew is far less than the Germanic influence on Ashkenazi Hebrew.
And tell me, which language is closer linguistically to the Holy Language - Arabic, or German?
omedyashar 1 year ago 3
@omedyashar The Correct Pronunciation is the Sephardi Way! I do not only Say this as a Sephardi but also because this is how Modern Hebrew is now Being Spoken! Do not give me this Crap about Arabic!
MenechemShaul 1 year ago
@omedyashar Provide your proof! All the Mizrachi/Sephardi Jews except for the Yemenites, use the proper pronunciation!
MenechemShaul 1 year ago
@omedyashar hmm, i have to disagree that Hebrew is holy language today. all the languages are corrupted since the tower of Babel. ---Zephaniah 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a PURE LANGUAGE
Jesus bless you
ASellerofPurple 3 months ago
Honestly I dont know why your christian friends would be upset that you became a jew,,,you probably have a better understanding of the big picture then any of us,,,im a chrsitian but if I had a chance to go to Israel and study I would turn jewish but still believe in Jesus as messiah,,,and I believe he will return and complete the phrophesy many rabbi believe Jesus is the messiah more do not but I think your doing a great thing and GOD will reveal truth to you for keeping the law
candiceevans1 1 year ago
@candiceevans1 I realize saying "Turn Jewish" yet still believe in Jesus sounds rediculous, but be that as it may my feeling is that Judaism is the basis for all three monotheistic rel and I believe Christ wanted us to keep the law therefore Chrsitians really should be messianic Jews
candiceevans1 1 year ago
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REVELATION 2:9: I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. 3:9: Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
MsCuriousCat 1 year ago
What about Ghayin? Ayin-Dagesh = Ghayin. Im a bit skeptic about that letter .. think about Olam maybe sounded like Gholam.
Yet you made the Gimel sound like Ghimel or better said .. Rhimel?!
Terneyah 1 year ago
What about Ghayin? Ayin-Dagesh = Ghayin. You made it sound like Ghimel, didnt you?
Terneyah 1 year ago
I saw a video of you reading. I noticed that you use the Yemenite vowel system. While the Yemenites certainly have the consanants, their vowels are deficient and don't work with Tiberian vocalization. Surely you know this. Sticking to a defecient vowel system is no better than an Ashkenaz clinging to his savs and oys.
TheIsraelLandFund 1 year ago
OmedYashar, Yemenite Hebrew is closer to Biblical Hebrew. Although I am not being biased despite my Yemenite background - but it IS perhaps most purest than any of the current Yiddish-Germanic opera that they have in the "shuls" of Ashkenazim. Nothin' against Ashkas - but it surprises me that they go into extreme fits and madness when one glorifies the purity of Yemenite Hebrew and bash it as having been influenced by Arabs. If it was, than we must thank the Arabs for that.
JubanTeyman24 1 year ago
All of these letters have perfect Arabic counterparts! Haha, this has made it so easy to pronounce, it is only writing that is a challenge for me. Peace from Beirut / San Francisco !
TimmYayhooray 1 year ago
Have you researched the pronunciation of the Falasha (Ethiopian) Jews? Their liturgy predates the time of King Solomon.
roooy2007 1 year ago
@roooy2007
I do not deny the Jewishness of the Ethiopian Jews - even if they are descendents of converts (as some say) -- this in no way changes their Jewishness. It seems to me that they held on to what they could as best as they could....
omedyashar 1 year ago
@omedyashar
....But as for the 'pronunciation of the Falasha (Ethiopian) Jews' ....I have to say I don't know what you're referring to - surely not to their traditional Hebrew pronuncation... because as far as I've known they didn't even have a Hebrew Hhumash... so I would be VERY surprised if they had a Hebrew pronunciation... I've been under the impression they didn't have Hebrew.
omedyashar 1 year ago
@omedyashar
....Even if their liturgy predates King Solomon (based on what?) -- it is in translation form. They had no Hebrew liturgy.
omedyashar 1 year ago
I wanted to ask you the first sound is the sound of olive thank you
couragefireful 1 year ago
@couragefireful
I don't understand your question.
omedyashar 1 year ago
Wonderful video :] Thank you so much for posting.
OmGzXX 1 year ago
man that's exactly like arabic expect that there's no p,v. and a bit change in order. how amazing.
fahad5656 1 year ago
This is a wonderful video. I have been looking for a video like this for a long time. Thanks for providing such accurate but yet delightfully untechnical accounts of some of the harder to pronounce letters, like ayn.
MrMucas 1 year ago
And why ghimel? wasnt that with ghayin?!
Terneyah 1 year ago
Dont you think that the temani hebrew is to much arabic-influenced? :S
Terneyah 1 year ago
@Terneyah
What makes you think that it's any more influenced by Arabic than the European pronuncations of Hebrew are influenced by European languages?
The influence by Arabic upon Teimoni and Iraqi Hebrew is minimal -- FAR less than the influence of European languages upon Ashkenazi pronuncation.
There are endless factors that lead one to this conclusion. I've been wanting to make a video on this for a long time. Hope to do so within the next few months, b-ezrath HaShem.
omedyashar 1 year ago
@omedyashar
Sure - i mean, i dont deny that arabic and hebrew are semitic languages. But what about ghimel/gimel and ghayn? Why not jimel/gimel?
May YHWH protect you.
Terneyah 1 year ago
is there any way you could type the alphabet as you had talked about them. with the dots and a pronunciation guide.
bJamesJohn 1 year ago
@bJamesJohn
I hope to do that within the coming months, b-ezrath HaShem.
omedyashar 1 year ago
Hi, some words like Alif and Shin exactly pronounce like Farsi. is there a relation between them?
amiragha72 2 years ago
SHAHAK AMEONON
ben1996123 2 years ago
I would like to know what the musical notational value of each letter is.
hoshi411 2 years ago
ShahakSkSv,
Which question of mine were you answering?
noremote 2 years ago
1. you should reference the division of letters according to where they come out of the mouth. for example aleph, hay, het and ayin all come from the the throat. i am having trouble finding the original source. cf. rashi on lev. 19:16
2. a gimel comes from the same place as yod, chaf, quf (soft palate). how does the gimel hazak (pronounced as a j) reconcile with that?
3. there were more than one system of speaking hebrew even in talmudic times. i believe yemenite is closest to "tiberian"
eaglepriest 2 years ago
@eaglepriest
I agree with you regarding the 'j' sound. As far as I'm aware, In Yemen most Yemenite Jews pronounced the hard-gimal as a g as in 'go;' but the Jews around the capital of Yemen pronounced it as 'j.' Because the most respected rabbis were mainly around the capital, once they came to Israel their level of influence (along with the 'j') increased upon the other Yemenite Jews from other areas of Yemen.
omedyashar 1 year ago
@omedyashar
....Yemenite is davka closer to 'bavli.' I know it sounds funny. -- but this similarity has to do with vowelization rather than with letter-sounds.
omedyashar 1 year ago
Do you rock the chet and 'ayin in regular speech too?
noremote 2 years ago
I've noticed that many Greek and Latin borrowings in Hebrew transcribe the t and k sounds with a tet and kuf. Many of these are from Mishnaic times.
Could this be an indication that by that time, they ceased to be pharyngealized?
noremote 2 years ago
@noremote
All indications point otherwise, being that throughout the Middle Eastern Jewish communities these sounds were preserved until around 100 years ago.
I think it's more likely due to the fact that if tet, even in its proper pronuncation, is closer to latin t than if a taw were to be mistaken for a thaw, or a kaf for a khaf.
omedyashar 1 year ago
Hi, interesting video. One thing you didn't mention is that the Hebrew alphabet was adopted from the Assyrian/Aramaic alphabet. It's the same as The Assryain alphabet. :))
assyriagrl 2 years ago
Yes, he did not mention about the Ashurit script - the square letters that the Jews learned during the first exile.
72Yonatan 2 years ago
But then again the Assyrian alphabet was Adopted from Paleo-Hebrew (formerly known as phonecian, before it was discovered that Older texts using the alphabet in hebrew existed)
So it went like this
Paleo Hebrew given by God
Semitic Gentiles adapt and Change it
Jews are Exiled
Jews adopt Aramaic script based on their old script/Samaritans retain old script and it develops in a different direction
enigmaUnknown 1 year ago
technically wrong, the Paleo-Hebrew script looks nothing at all from the Aramaic script
plus I am also an Assyrian, I have some Jew blood in me, probably from one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel.
G33KN3rd 1 year ago
Thanks for this revealing video. I often heard from teachers that hebrew letters originally had different pronunciations but could never listen to it though. I am very interested in linguistics and love it to hear phonologic differences between languages and dialects. For someone interested in hebrew like me, this video is very informative.
madjack617 2 years ago
I can't speak Arabic and have difficulty making the exactly modern Arabic-style teth and sadi. What i do intead is saying t+heth at the same time, or, for sadi, s+heth at the same time
Phjong 2 years ago
where exactly are these mesoros from
Johnthegr82202 2 years ago
He (Yosef) is following the Temani pronunciation - and there are variations among these, but they differ greatly from the mesorah of Syrian Jews.
Nusach Yerushalmi derives from Aleppo Hebrew, the "Halebi" Hebrew.
Also, the bowing which he recommends is based on early sources and also follows what was done in Teiman about a hundred and fifty years ago.
In Israel, we are mostly following the Syrian pronunciation in Sefardi nusach, but the Teimanim keep their traditions alive in separate minyan
72Yonatan 2 years ago
@Johnthegr82202
Yemenite and Iraqi Jews.
omedyashar 1 year ago
First off, thank you omedyashar for this "tutorial". I have found it very interesting. And, as far as I know, it's the only one of its kind on youtube.
Irtidad, your comments are also very enlightening, and you make a convincing case that Yemenite Hebrew did not fully preserve the "original" Hebrew (although, from my research, it comes very close). I have heard that Tiberian Hebrew vocalization is even more "authentic" than Temani Hebrew. Is this true? If so, are there any people who...
wheniwakeupinthemorn 2 years ago
still speak it? It would be great to hear a "tutorial" of Tiberian Hebrew vocalization. I wish there were youtube videos for all of the different kinds of Hebrew pronunciations: Iraqi, Khorasani, Moroccan, Sephardi...
wheniwakeupinthemorn 2 years ago
Also, as far as Samekh is concerned, it most probably did have a simple S sound. But this was indeed its own unique sound, because the letter Shin with a dot on the left side did NOT have a regular S sound until Tiberian pronunciation (medieval, i.e. not really Hebrew) merged it with Samekh. In ancient Hebrew, Shin with left dot had a lateral fricative sound, /ɬ/, a rare sound that is most famously found in Welsh and represented therein with a double L.
Irtidad 2 years ago
Yeah, and Shin+L-dot versus Samekh is the only merged pair of consonants in Tiberian. But Tiberian vocalization preserves the sound of other consonants very well, and its vowels are also considered the most conservative one in all masoretic texts.
Phjong 2 years ago
And similarly, I think you should deal with the consonants which sometimes take Dagesh (the "dot") more precisely as well. You deal with them with the same underlying attitude that the modern Israeli language deals with them, i.e. as separate letters representing separate phonemes, albeit you apply the Dagesh distinction to all occlusives, while modern Israeli only applies it to Bet, Pe, and Kaf.
Irtidad 2 years ago
The better way to treat these pairs is as the ancient Hebrew language did—as mere variations of one another. The dagesh distinction was NOT phonemic in ancient Hebrew, it was purely allophonic. Therefore [v] was simply how one pronounced the /b/ phoneme (represented by Bēṯ) when it came singly between vowels, it was not considered a separate phoneme; in other words, [b] and [v] were simply two realizations of the same /b/ consonant depending on surrounding sounds.
Irtidad 2 years ago
The tradition of marking Dagesh was begun simply for the sake of precision, just as the Qur'an is always written fully voweled even though most of the time this isn't necessary. However, once the Hebrew language died, the Dagesh distinction became more important because in many of the languages which Jews thereafter spoke, such as Yiddish, there was indeed a phonemic distinction between [b] and [v] and so on.
Irtidad 2 years ago
The reason why this approach is important is because it gets at the ancient Hebrew pattern of pronunciation rather than the modern Israeli pronunciation which, despite enormous efforts by revivalists, tends to have a Yiddish influence. For example, the Israeli phrase for '2nd grade' is כתה בית, which is pronounced /ki'ta bet/. When one says "in 2nd grade" in Israeli (בכתה בית), it is pronounced /beki'ta bet/, with a hard Kaf.
Irtidad 2 years ago
But because this Kaf occurs singly between two vowels, the Hebrew pattern would've been to soften it into [x], the 'Kh' sound, thus making it /bexi'ta bet/. And that is why you should treat the occlusives as individual letters which have variant realizations as fricatives. Thus if one understands this pattern, one does not rely so much on the diacritic marks because one can predict the sounds simply based on Hebrew phonological patterns.
Irtidad 2 years ago
This particular point also demonstrates why the Arabic-influenced pronunciations of Hebrew are not sufficient to qualify as the "original" pronunciation, despite their being Semitic. Arabic has never had such allophonic variation between occlusives and fricatives, while ancient Hebrew did. Therefore, because this pattern existed in ancient Hebrew but exists neither in Yiddish nor in Arabic, it appears to have disappeared entirely except for in the realm of academia.
Irtidad 2 years ago
Also, your explanation of the letters Aleph and Ayin seems lacking to me. These letters are indeed FULL consonants, they don't "lack a particular sound of their own." They were realized as /ʔ/ and /ʕ/ respectively, which are just as good of consonants as any other. That being said, you do pronounce them relatively well, but you should just explain them more accurately.
Irtidad 2 years ago
It seems that you are basing your pronunciation on Yemenite Hebrew, which is good in that it preserves many of the Semitic consonants, such as Ayin and Ḥēṯ, which are lost in Israeli because of (Indo-European) Yiddish influence (see Ghil'ad Zuckermann).
Irtidad 2 years ago
But Yemenite Hebrew is NOT "original" Hebrew, it's Hebrew with an Arabic influence. For example, pronunciation of Gimel as [dʒ] (as in 'judge') NEVER existed in spoken Hebrew (spoken from ~C13 BC to ~C1 AD). This realization of the letter is purely due to Arabic, which changed proto-Semitic /g/ into /ɟ/ by the time of Classical Arabic, and from /ɟ/ into the current realizations of Ġīm in the various modern Arabic dialects, including the [dʒ] of Yemenite Arabic.
Irtidad 2 years ago
the Yemenite tardition of hebrew pronanciation is the only complete one. the is no alternative.
if u new the spirit of yemani jews.... the are in nature conservatives (extreme conservatives : ) .
amirh16790 2 years ago
Indeed Yemenite Hebrew has a very complete and intact system of consonants, almost identical to that of Tiberian Vocalization except for gimmel with a dot and qoph.
However, the quality of vowels in Yemenite Hebrew is kinda far from that of Tiberian V. I mean segol, shewa, and holam. Qames`-gadol in it is very conservative though.
Phjong 2 years ago
@Irtidad
Thank you SO much for your comments. I agree with virtually everything you've written, including what you said about alef and aiyin.
I also agree that 'j' is incorrect, but I did not say it is correct in the video. I mentioned it out of respect towards my teachers and for information... because few Jews realize that there is a pronuncation of Hebrew with a 'j' - regardless of the fact that I'm convinced it's due to Arabic influence.
omedyashar 1 year ago
@omedyashar how do we pronounce the
ayin letter in hebrew..its silent they say, but its only silent cause they dont kno how to say it i heard
TheHebrew20 1 year ago
@Irtidad Yemenite Hebrew is "CLOSEST" to the original Hebrew. This we acknowledge and historians admit is the fact. So, how did Hebrew sound like if it didn't have an Arabic influence? Definitely not like Yiddish. Hebrew is SUPPOSED to sound Semitic - like Arabic and Aramaic. NOT GERMANIC. Even today, the Israeli accent with it's French Ashkenazi Resh proves that after 3,000 years the Yemenites were able to keep the RESH sound far more better than Ashkenazi Hebrew. I can't stand this jealousy!
JubanTeyman24 1 year ago
@JubanTeyman24
I certainly did not deny that the Yemenite pronunciation is the closest to original Biblical Hebrew. My point was that we must nonetheless make a distinction between "closest" and the actual original.
Irtidad 1 year ago
Isn't the current pronunciation according to the Masoretic pronunciation?
Your "original pronunciation" is based on Semitic patterns (which scientists base on Arabic).
While the masoretic tradition is supposed to predate Arabic.
Xevorim 3 years ago
The predominant pronuncation of "Modern Hebrew" in Israel is a simplified pronunciation of Hebrew. It's kind of a half-way point between most traditional Middle Eastern pronunciations of Hebrew and the traditional European pronunciations of Hebrew. So "Modern Hebrew" is kind of like the MSA of Hebrew.
The letter pronunciations in this clip are based purely on traditional Middle Eastern formS of Hebrew and comments on the Hebrew pronunciation in ancient Jewish lit. Linguists only confirm it.
omedyashar 3 years ago
I thought the Temanim had it closest, except for the 'Guf'. I was unaware that they pronounced 'Tzaadi' as '9aadi'. I knew that the Arabic 'Saad' and '.9aad' derived from 'Tzaadi'; but it's interesting that 'Tzaadi' and '9aad' should have the same sound. I joked with a friend, "Wouldn't it be funny if they adopted both 'Guf' and 'Sav' rather than 'Qof' and 'Tav'? 'Qat' would be 'Gas'!"
wesak87 3 years ago
I was also unaware that 'khet' was like '7a'. In the Qur'an '7ibr' is 'Rabbi', from Hebrew 'Chaver'.
'Gimel' as 'Rimel'?
wesak87 3 years ago
Correct. It's '7a.' This was common among all Middle Eastern pronunciations of Hebrew. This pronunciation is being lost in popular speech among Jews of recent Middle Eastern decent of my own generation, due to popularization of simplified 'Modern Hebrew' pronunciation. However, I assure you that you can be easily understood by other speakers of Modern Hebrew if you correctly pronounce 3Ayin, 7et, Resh, Quf, Tet, &
9adi. You probably won't be understood if u use Waw, Thaw, Dhalet, & Ghimal.
omedyashar 3 years ago
Any lazy American Hebrew speakers who may want to criticize those who continue to use Hhet (7a), 3Ayin, etc... even in Modern Hebrew just because it's no longer the majority pronunciation of the new generation... those same Americans should first stop using the letter Heh themselves... because this is also dropped. I say this, because despite the common HORRIBLE American pronunciation of Hebrew, they almost ALWAYS make a point to pronounce Heh, though most Israelis do not, lol.
omedyashar 3 years ago
Though today most somewhat traditional Yemenites only know 'Guf' and 'Jimal,' from my reading and discussions with Yemenites here in Israel... and with others who have researched the issue, it was mainly only around the city of San'a that they had 'Guf' and Jimal.' What happened is that upon arriving to Israel, their interaction increased, and since most the teachers were from around San'a, the 'Guf' and 'Jimal' got standardized as 'Yemenite' here in Israel, though in Yemen there was variation.
omedyashar 3 years ago
In the more rural areas of Yemen many Yemenite Jews had the 8uf/quf of fuS7a Arabic, and the Gimal (with dot inside) just the same as most other non-Yemenite communities; and it was in these rural places that most Yemenite Jews lived - all throughout the country. But these communities were generally less educated, and produced less leaders. This is why their pronunciations are less known.
The Gimal WITHOUT a dot inside the letter is Ghimal, like '3, similar to a Parisian R, NOT on the teeth.
omedyashar 3 years ago
I don't really know parisian R's, so it is Ghayn? I think I've seen in Judeo-Arabic Gimel with dot underneath as Ghayn (see JewishEncyclopedia, Arabic use among Jews). Thanks for the info on Qof. Did you know Egyptian Arabic turns Jeem into Geem? Opposite of Temani Ivreet eh? :)
wesak87 3 years ago
Correct. It is Ghayn... only in Hebrew it's GHimal. This is only when the letter is WITHOUT a dot (dagesh) in the middle of the letter -- when the letter appears in Hebrew, not in Judeo-Arabic. You are correct in your statement about Ghayn in Judeo-Arabic. Many Yemenite Jewish communities outside the area of Yemen also said Geem (Gimal) instead of Jimal.
omedyashar 3 years ago
I'm just slowly trying to learn hebrew on my own online. I would love to learn to say it correctly, which I honestly believe you're doing it right, but there are absolutely no resources or ways for me to learn it.
ipwnnewbs50 3 years ago
All you have to do is memorize the shapes of the letters with their names... you can do this using ANY pronuncation. Once you've learned the letters, according to any pronuncation, then come back to this video and learn how to more properly pronounce those letters. I intend to redo this video with the letters appearing the clip as I say them... eventually.
omedyashar 3 years ago
well i've got the aleph bet basically down..it's just when i'm trying to learn words and how to pronounce them it would be hard to try to convert everything.
ipwnnewbs50 3 years ago
It takes time. The best advice I can give you is to read read read -- in Hebrew of course, even if you don't understand. It's impossible to understand everything at once. You just need to familiarize yourself with the patterns of the language, even if you don't understand them at first. Try saying one of the Psalms daily, for example. Or 2 or three times a day. This itself should help greatly.
omedyashar 3 years ago
Hey I have another question. I found a program online where I could type in hebrew. There are two types, one called nikkud with vowel markings, and the other called hebrew(israel) and there are no special markings. Is this how it's really done in israel? And in the israel part, you can't even put dots inside of the letters like you were saying in this video. Soo i'm just confused about that. And also i've decided to try to learn to speak it correctly, because of my realization that(TBC)
ipwnnewbs50 3 years ago
even orthodox judaism tends to be more about keeping up what the majority of the jews are doing than what is correct.
ipwnnewbs50 3 years ago
You're unfortunately right about 'orthodox judaism,' but it's not supposed to be that way, as you know... just as any moralistic religion doesn't teaches such. It's a matter of the general tendencies of humankind. Regardless of what religion or its proximity to theological correctness, even with those groups closest to the 'truth' -- the majority of the time the majority of its members are only members due to the situation they were born or raised in, not by conviction or sincerity.
omedyashar 3 years ago
Also, despite that carefully Torah observant Jews are a minority of the Jewish people... they are still HIGHLY diverse. 'Orthodox Judaism' isn't an organized denomination like 'Reform,' 'Conservative,' etc...
omedyashar 3 years ago
By saying hebrew(israel) in the program, they don't mean to say that in Israel niqqudoth (the vowel dots) aren't used. All it means is that this is how the word will most often appear in adult Israeli non-religious literature. The vowel markings are used ALL THE TIME in Israel, but mainly for children or in religious texts and works on Jewish law, where the niqqudoth ensure proper pronunciation and lessen likelihood of misunderstanding key points of Jewish law.
omedyashar 3 years ago
Niqqudoth are also used in any / all Israeli books, even if the great majority of the book is written without niqudoth (vowel markings), when a word appears which will almost certainly be unclear as to what its meaning is if vowel markings aren't added. There are not many words like this in Hebrew, where more than one word has the same spelling -- and even when there are such words, usually the context or grammatical sentence structure informs you of the intended meaning, but not always.
omedyashar 3 years ago
Also, when writing Hebrew, we don't add the vowel-markings, not even the one dot that appears in the middle of letters to indicate whether it is hard or smooth (B! / vvv; K! / kkkhhh, etc...), unless you write a word which you are fairly certain people wouldn't know how to pronounce unless you added vowels (ei: uncommon words or names).
There is NO DIFFERENCE between the pronuncation of words in Hebrew, between whether it is with or without written vowels. Vowels are unneeded 4 words u know.
omedyashar 3 years ago
hmm intersting. So then, would you suggest that when learning the language I try my best to be able to recognize the word without the vowel markings?
ipwnnewbs50 3 years ago
No... not at first. That's just going off my experience though. I would suggest first getting used to reading Hebrew with niqudoth first... until you get to a point where you can read fluently -- with niqudoth... and then with time you will NATURALLY be able to read without niquddoth. I think this is the easiest way to go.
omedyashar 3 years ago
It's nice that there are still some people that care about the traditional pronunciation. I've trained myself to pronounce all of those sounds, since I've been studying Arabic for a couple of years, and Standard Arabic has all of them, excluding Gimmel. I would like to speak Hebrew this way, but aside of the fact that no one would understand me, I just don't want to face people's reaction.
But I do pronounce Heh (הא) and Resh properly.
TheLittleRussian2 3 years ago
I understand your concern over people's reactions. But there is no other way that they will learn. If we keep it hidden and act as though it's a shame, it will remain hidden and considered an embarassment.
In the meantime, you SHOULD pronounce the letters properly at least during Qiryat Shema, public reading of the Torah, and Birkath Kohanim (if you are a Kohen). B/c at these times it is halakha to do so.
People would understand you if you pronounce Hhet and Aiyin as well. I do.
omedyashar 3 years ago
You are obviously right, but I still need to think about it. Some people can just ignore society's pressure (לחץ חברתי? I don't know how to say it in English), and so do I, sometimes. But, unfortunately, not always.
The funny thing is that some people actually think that the correct pronunciation is "bad" and "foreign". But the common pronunciation is so shallow and boring! I dislike it very much.
TheLittleRussian2 3 years ago
lol. It is funny. It's irony... kinda sad too :( Such people are so sure of themselves and thereby spouting ignorance proudly :(
You could say "social pressure."
I also dislike the common pronuncation... it is shallow and boring, especially after you become familiar with proper pronuncation... but the main reason I dislike it is because it causes us to violate halakha, and is a sign of the galuth (exile) -- which antisemites use to "prove" our non-Semitic origins.
omedyashar 3 years ago
Ironically... a great many of modern Israelis, despite their bad pronuncation of Hebrew in our days, come from individuals whos Hebrew pronuncation was better when they FIRST arrived to Israel. Of course, here I'm referring to pronuncation and not to vocabulary or fluency.
Anyway, I'm starving. Gotta go eat. May HaShem guide and bless you in all your ways :)
omedyashar 3 years ago
Thank you! בתיאבון, and may HaShem bless you too.
TheLittleRussian2 3 years ago
I agree that the Yemenite dialect most closely preserves the correct pronunciation. I wanted to say too that you pronounce Het and qof much better than most people. Nice research.
subculturistic 3 years ago
Thank you for your comments. It's encouraging to read such. As you might have noticed, not everyone shares your understanding. I can't help but be inclined to think that their disagreement is due to subjectiveness, bias, and lack of intellectually honest research.
omedyashar 3 years ago
yemani for kuf is gof
amirh16790 3 years ago
That's correct for the Jews in the area around San'a, where they also usually said jimal instead of gimal. However, the Yemenite Jews further away from San'a pronounced it as quf, the same as Iraqi Jews do. Upon arriving in Israel, the influence of San'ani pronuncation increased, due to the influence of prominent Yemenite rabbis from San'a.
omedyashar 3 years ago
can you please tell me base on what u thing this is the right Pronunciation ?
what is your conclusion for gimal? (base on what?)
amirh16790 3 years ago
Linguistic patters among Semitic languages and these languages' common reactions to non-Semitic lanugages and ancient transliterations of Hebrew into other languages... and oral tradition :D
omedyashar 3 years ago