Names in Hebrew
John in Hebrew
Written
ג׳ון
With the vowels
ג׳וֹן
Read from right to left.
Letter by letter
- ג׳j
- וֹo
- ןn
Why these letters
The name comes from Hebrew: יוֹחָנָן. 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.
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