Names in Hebrew
Josh in Hebrew
Written
ג׳וש
With the vowels
ג׳וֹשׁ
Read from right to left.
Letter by letter
- ג׳j
- וֹo
- שׁsh
Why these letters
The name comes from Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻׁעַ. Hebrew has no j sound: it is written ג with an apostrophe, ג׳. The o and u sounds are written with ו.
More names
Want to read Hebrew yourself?
The free reading course teaches the letters and the vowels in fifteen steps: in a few weeks you read your name and everything else.