the Hebrew & Arabic Alphabets and Font Charts

ARABIC AND HEBREW ALPHABET EQUIVALENTS &ARABIC.TTF CHART OF KEYBOARD EQUIVALENTSFor the many seminarians and clergy persons who have studied Biblical Hebrew but have not hadthe opportunity to study Arabic, the following chart may be helpful when working with documentswhich cite the Arabic cognates of Hebrew words. The chart lists the names of the Arabic lettersin proper sequence down the right side of the page. The corresponding Hebrew letters—often outof sequence for the Hebrew alphabet—are listed down the left side of the page. Arabic script iscursive, so the shape of the letters changes according to their being attached to the right or left oraccording to their being final or unattached. The Arabic font is Arabic.ttf and the Hebrew font isSPtiberian. Both fonts are free and available online at http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/fonts/ andhttp://tmcdaniel.palmerseminary.edu/Arabic.ttf .There are two or three lines of data for each of the letters, consisting of1. the various forms of each letter in Arabic, depending on its position in a word;2. the keyboard equivalent under each of the respective Hebrew/Arabic letters / fonts;3. the code used in Wordperfect for the letters that are outside the ASCII character set. (Theyare available in Wordperfect by using the Control-W key and typing in the respective codeor clicking on the desired letter from the various available character sets.)William Lane's Arabic English Lexicon (1863–1893) of 3,064 pages in 8 volumes, is still in printand is now available on CDROM. It is advertised as a must for Arabists, but it also an essential toolfor the Hebraist and advanced students of Biblical Hebrew. The partial citations provided in this listshould be read in context by checking the full text in Lane’s lexicon. Edmund Castell’s Semitic-Latin Lexicon (Lexicon Heptaglotton) of 1669 (4,008 columns in 2 folio volumes) has beenscanned and is now available on this web page. The chart below should facilitate a student’sworking with these lexicons and their rich reservoir of Hebrew and Arabic cognates. AdditionalArabic charts are available at http://www.omniglot.com/writing/arabic.htm. Castell’s Arabic Chartis also available here by going to the “Castell’s 1669 Semitic–Latin Lexicon” option in the columnon the left and then selecting “Introductory Pages: 1-48,” then “Alphabetic Chart 3–4.”

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