Biblical Hebrew is a dead language and was breathing its last breaths about the same time Jesus was walking the earth. Reading from right to left and top to bottom. Today Jews pronounce יהוה as HeShem (the name), a pronoun for 'The Name of God'īeginning students of Ancient Hebrew, especially those whose first language is of Latin origin need to strip away what they know about modern language, forget all the rules they learned in school about grammar and punctuation, and start fresh. Jewish tradition holds that it is a sin to speak the name of God and such is the reason for leaving out helps for pronunciation when transcribing the text in Hebrew. God officially introduced himself by name to Moses in Exodus 3:14 as אהיה אשר אהיה (I am that I am), and YHWH strictly translated in Hebrew is the unconjugated verb 'to be'.

As an interesting side note יהוה is the first 'four letter word' known by scholars as the tetragrammaton (Greek for 'four letter word') YHWH spelled in Hebrew as יהוה, contains only four letters and is commonly known as Yehweh, Yehovah, or Jehovah. One exception is when the name of God was written. It was not until the Masoretes, between the 7th and 10th centuries AD, added to the translations of the Hebrew text, markers under the letters to indicate vowels, as a help in pronunciation.

In its original written form, Hebrew contained no vowels, only consonants. Hebrew is read from right to left, just the opposite of English and many modern languages which are read from left to right. Ancient Hebrew, also known as Biblical Hebrew or Classical Hebrew, is the original language of the Old Testament in the Christian Bible also known as the Torah or Tanakh which is the religious text of Judiasm.

Is paleo hebrew read right to left