Hebrew transliteration
There are a number of ways of transliterating Hebrew. This often depends on the way that the speaker pronounces it.When ch appears in a Hebrew transliteration, it always has the guttural sound of German.
For example, the holiday Chanuka can be written as: Chanuka, Hannuka, Chaneekoo.
Here the names in the bible have been transliterated from English into Hebrew using an Ashkenazic pronunciation:
- Abraham = Avraham
- Isaac = Yitzchok
- Jacob = Ya-akov
- Israel = Yissra-el
- Esau = Eisav
- Joseph = Yossef
- Moses = Moshe
- Aaron = Aharon
- Samuel = Shmu-el
- Saul = Sha-ul
- Job = Iyov
- Jerusalem = Yerushalayim
- Isaiah = Yeshayahu
