✶ The Hebrew aleph-bet

אָלֶף־בֵיתThe Aleph-Bet

Hebrew is an abjad — twenty-two consonant letters, read right to left, with vowels usually left unwritten. Five letters take a distinct final form at a word’s end.

Click any letter for its name, sound, gematria value, and a numbered stroke-order guide. Notes give both the classical (Tiberian) and modern Israeli pronunciations.