15 vowel signs · they sit under the letter · read the consonant first, then the vowel

The letters are the bones. The vowels are the breath.

Hebrew's 22 letters are all consonants. These marks — the nikkud — are the vowels, and the Masoretes added them roughly 1,300 years after the text was written. Learn them and the two systems combine into words.

Two of these are signs that are literally identical and mean different things. Those are the ones that will humble you.

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This is the payoff. Real words, unedited, from Genesis. Consonants plus vowels. Read it and pick what it says.

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