Names in Hebrew

Simon in Hebrew

Written

סיימון

With the vowels

סַיימוֹן

Read from right to left.

Letter by letter

  1. סַs
  2. ייay
  3. מm
  4. וֹo
  5. ןn

Why these letters

The name comes from Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹן. The ay / ey sound is written with two yods, יי. At the end of a word נ takes its final shape, ן.

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.