Names in Hebrew
Adam in Hebrew
Written
אדם
With the vowels
אָדָם
Read from right to left.
Letter by letter
- אָa
- דָda
- םm
Why these letters
It is a Hebrew name, and this is how Hebrew writes it. A Hebrew word can’t begin with a bare vowel, so the name starts with א: it is silent and carries the vowel. At the end of a word מ takes its final shape, ם.
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