Names in Hebrew

Jacqueline in Hebrew

Written

ג׳קלין

With the vowels

גֶ׳קְלִין

Read from right to left.

Letter by letter

  1. גֶ׳je
  2. קְk
  3. לִl
  4. יi
  5. ןn

Why these letters

Hebrew has no j sound: it is written ג with an apostrophe, ג׳. At the end of a word נ takes its final shape, ן. The k is written with ק, the letter foreign names use for k.

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