Historic and Quirky Hebrew Names

Blake, William. Jacob's Ladder. 1805. British Museum,
London. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. Wikimedia Commons. Web. 13 Aug. 2014. 

With Biblical names like Jacob, Elijah, and Noah on the rise, sadly their Hebrew originals have been left behind. These are the names transcribed from the Hebrew language into the Latin alphabet as a Hebrew speaker would pronounce it. They differ from the English classics in spelling and sound. The list includes the Hebrew original form of a popular Biblical name in the Top 1000 in the US.




Aharon                  Schmuel                                                 Avigail
Amos                    Tuvya                                                     Channah
Avner                    Tzion                                                      Chava
Avraham               Yaakov                                                    Devorah
Binyamin              Yael                                                        Elisheva
Efraim                   Yair                                                        Miriam
Eitan                     Yechezkiel                                              Rivka
Eliyyahu               Yehonatan                                               Sarit
Gavriel                  Yehoshua                                                Shoshannah
Gid'on                    Yishai
Hevel                     Yitzhak
Mattityahu             Yochanan
Mikha'el                Yoel
Moshe                   Yonah
Noach                    Yosef
Reuven
Shimon

There are, of course, many more this lovely, quirky Hebrew names that have an English equivalent, and I encourage you to check them out. They really have quite the antiquity!