Can you name the letters of the Hebrew alphabet?

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Hebrew Alphabet Quiz

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Created by: davidr -
Published: December 17th, 2008
Category: Language
Plays: 30,013

Tags: Alphabet Quizzes, Letter Quizzes, hebrew, english

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	AhLeah:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 06:30 GMT	8 points
	Needs to accept "Tzadi" for "Tzadi," and "Hay" for "He."

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	jessek:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 07:20 GMT	2 points
	looks like i'm not gonna be passing a bar mitzvah anytime soon

	deej:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 07:52 GMT	6 points
	21/22 - I only forgot the "quph" and once i found out which one I missed, I didn't even remember it. My bar mitzvah tutor would have been proud! Also, re: spellings, I think it is hard because since hebrew letter names have to be transliterated from another alphabet, there isn't really a "right" way to spell these, per se

	davidr:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 08:35 GMT	1 point
	@Hal_10000: Yes. But they're not images — if your fonts don't have the Hebrew symbols, it won't work. :-(

	davidr:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 08:36 GMT	-2 points
	I used all the alternative spellings mentioned on the wikipedia page on the Hebrew alphabet but, of course, that won't be an exhaustive list.

	yankeessuck8991:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 09:22 GMT	4 points
	playing dreidel ftw!

	shel99:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:40 GMT	13 points
	Thanks for the aleph-bet song, Debbie Friedman!

Ribhump:

Dec 17th, 2008 at 11:56 GMT

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having been subjected to her and her songs in personal i will most definitely not thank debbie friedman, although i have to say in this case it did help a little

	marnavot:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 13:21 GMT	5 points
	Hebrew being my first language, it would have been a bit embarrassing not to get them all...

	marnavot:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 13:23 GMT	1 point
	Mr. Deez, it's definitely not "Zion"/"Zian"/"Sion"/"Tzion", only Zayin (and perhaps Zain)

	Justin:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 14:39 GMT	2 points
	Dang it.. I'm Jewish, made a Bar Mitzvah, knew all of these, but couldn't spell most of them.

	jereboam:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 14:44 GMT	5 points
	Oi! 50 years since my Bar Mitzvah - I only got 4!

	davidr:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 15:07 GMT	2 points
	@Justin: I'd probably do pretty badly on the Roman alphabet if you made me spell out the names of the letters.

	majorbase2:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 15:32 GMT	2 points
	Hah, all those years of Hebrew school pay off in the end. I always liked the Hebrew alphabet song. Definitely a great quiz!

	animebear:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 16:01 GMT	-1 points
	Not to be picky or anything but isn't it tzadik with a k at the end... and maybe also ein for eyin.

	animebear:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 16:02 GMT	3 points
	I was happy to see this quiz up here... lived in Israel for 13 years

	avgnyer68:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 22:00 GMT	2 points
	common misconception. the letter is tzadi, tzaddik is a seperate word (the letter tzadi wold be spelled tzadi-daled-yud, while tzaddik is tzadi-daled-yud-kuf

	pr:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 22:54 GMT	3 points
	This quiz did a great job of accepting various spellings because there are many different ways of calling and reffering to the letters.

	pr:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 23:16 GMT	2 points
	Also, maybe have some bonus points for 'sofit' or 'enda mem' and some bonuses for Ashkenazic pronunciation such as 'taf' and 'saf', 'shin' and 'sin', 'kahf' and 'chaf', just for kicks.

	davidr:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 01:00 GMT	3 points
	@pr: The Ashkenazic pronunciations you suggest are, apart from `saf' already accepted as alternatives for the Israeli pronunciations. (I assume `kahf' is a typo for `khaf'.)

	Melissa:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 14:09 GMT	1 point
	10/22 - I guess I can say all those years of Hebrew school were a waste. Sorry Mom and Dad. I rocked at my bat mitzvah too.

	MeTheTyler:	Mar 12th, 2009 at 03:33 GMT	-1 points
	not even Jewish yet i got all of them. :)

	Sal_Paradise:	Mar 15th, 2009 at 12:52 GMT	1 point
	mmm...3rd grade Hebrew school classes.

	RMB4180:	Apr 27th, 2009 at 19:52 GMT	1 point
	Various spellings definitely need to be accepted. I know them all, years after graduating from Hebrew school, but the spelling in English might not match exactly what the letter is. There are also other letters that are not listed which should be included. This isn't a whole Aleph Bet.

	Guy:	May 21st, 2009 at 17:47 GMT	4 points
	Hm, Tsadi? Born in Israel, grew up in America, but was always under the impression that it's pronounced Tsadik. Maybe that's because Quph is the very next letter, causing them to sound strung together. (I speak Hebrew, and know that Tsadik is a different word.)

	GeoExpert:	May 26th, 2009 at 03:57 GMT	3 points
	Thank you Davidr!

	GeoExpert:	May 26th, 2009 at 03:58 GMT	-1 points
	חשבםנ גשהןגר גןג איןד /וןז יקנרק' ןד איק נקדא ךשמעשועק ןמ איק 'םרךגץ ן שצ חק'ןדי

	GeoExpert:	May 26th, 2009 at 03:58 GMT	-1 points
	צט בםצפואקר ישד ייקנרק'

	GeoExpert:	May 26th, 2009 at 03:59 GMT	-1 points
	Yes= Ken לקמ No= Lo ךם

	davidr:	Jun 12th, 2009 at 12:58 GMT	2 points
	@RMB4180: I included as many alternative spellings as I could find. If there are some missing, you can help improve the quiz by using the feedback link at the bottom of the page to let the admins know about the omission. Please include a source for your suggested additions..

	swimxisxlife:	Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:12 GMT	2 points
	I was bat mitzvah-ed 2 years ago and I remembered all. I knew tsadee an kooph but I always spelled them differently. The transli makes it hard. @RMB4180: All the letters are included. Bet and Vet, for example, are considered the same letter and are written the same when they appear in the Torah.

	segacs:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 18:31 GMT	4 points
	Odd quiz. Surprised to see such a wide variance in the results. Seems like people would either know their Hebrew alphabet or they wouldn't. Why know some letters but not others? I can only imagine it's because of the odd English spellings...?

	crack011:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 04:04 GMT	1 point
	most diffiult quiz because of spelling

	scurry:	Dec 7th, 2009 at 22:19 GMT	1 point
	"Tau" or "taw" accepted for tav would be nice. Nice quiz.

	Jordan1125:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 14:01 GMT	4 points
	Good quiz. I'd accept "Tsadee" for "Tsadi" though.

	fazzini:	Jan 14th, 2010 at 20:45 GMT	3 points
	13/22 Not bad for a goyish from tennessee, right?

	MsMichelleLeigh:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 17:24 GMT	4 points
	Quph, really? I managed to figure out most of the other super weird spellings...but I actually had to cheat to figure out how to spell quph. It should really accept koof, coof, cof, kof, kouph, couph, cuf or kuf.

	zlb33:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 20:46 GMT	2 points
	wow, so hebrew school did come in handy after all haha.