Hebrew spelling its context. Also, some words are almost always written in the "missing" form ("ktiv haser") in everyday life: לא (, no), אמא (, mother), אם (, if), and כנרת (, Kinneret). Hebrew spelling Hebrew spelling ( , "Hebrew spelling") refers to the way words are spelled in the Hebrew language. The Hebrew alphabet contains 22 letters, all of which are primarily consonants. This is because the Hebrew script is an abjad, that is, its letters indicate consonants, not vowels or syllables. An early system to overcome this, still used today, is "matres lectionis", where four of these letters, alef, he,
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet third opinion was accepted by some early Jewish scholars, and rejected by others, partially because it was permitted to write the Torah in Greek. The Paleo-Hebrew script has been recently revived for specific use in several Sacred Name Bibles: including "Zikarown Say’fer", "The Besorah" and the "Halleluyah Scriptures". These translations use it for writing the Tetragrammaton and other divine names, incorporating these names written in this script in the midst of the English text. The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet was unified with the Phoenician alphabet and added to the Unicode Standard in July, 2006 with the release of version 5.0. The Unicode