DIRECTIONS: Each row is one letter: the picture it began as, the Hebrew, yours. Each Hebrew name still means its picture.
1Read the five rows
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2Turn over: read, then answer
an ox
alef
A
yours
Turn an A upside down: horns over a muzzle.
a house
bet
B
yours
Floor, wall and roof.
a door
dalet
D
yours
water
mem
M
yours
The old picture was a row of waves.
an eye
ayin
O
yours
The old picture was a circle with a dot.
Cousins, Not Parent and Child
Hebrew · Page 2 of 2
DIRECTIONS: Read, then answer.
Your alphabet did not come from Hebrew. Both came from Phoenician. Hebrew went one way; Greek went another and became Latin, which you are reading now. They are cousins.
Hebrew kept the old names.Alef still means ox. Greek kept the sound, alpha, which means nothing in Greek. Latin kept only A.
Alpha means nothing in Greek. What does that tell you about where the Greeks got it?