People don’t know what’s happened or why when they seeAbrahimspelled “Avraham” or “Ibrahim.” This Hebrew name begins with the letter ALEF, the letter “A.” The first two letters are AB, not AV.EberandEmmanualboth begin with the letter AYIN, which may be rendered as anEor anAd...
The major change between Proto-Sinaitic and Phoenician is graphical. The Phoenician letter shapes grew to be more abstract and linear, in comparison to the more "pictographic" shape of Proto-Sinaitic signs. The following are the 22 Phoenician letters. There were many branches that sprang up fro...
Hebrew 0590–05FF Arabic 0600–06FF Syriac 0700–074F Arabic Supplement 0750–077F Thaana 0780–07BF NKo 07C0–07FF Samaritan 0800–083F Mandaic 0840–085F Syriac Supplement 0860–086F Arabic Extended-B 0870–089F Arabic Extended-A 08A0–08FF Devanagari 0900–097F Bengali 0980–09FF Gur...
because it is used to write "placenta," but it is hard to see how it is pictographic. It represents the soundkhwhich occurs in Hebrew and Arabic, in the German pronunciation ofNacht, or in the Scottish pronunciation of "Loch" (a voiceless velar fricative). The Greek letterχcan also ...
Well, let’s think about that, and let’s especially think about some other possible personal names, based on personal names attested in the Hebrew Bible and in Old Hebrew inscriptions, personal names which have a qop as the final root letter (as in line one of this inscription). And we...