Hebrew Fonts
I designed the following four fonts for the "Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible" and am including them here for you to use in your Hebrew studies. The time frame each of these fonts were used are as follows; Early Hebrew - before 1300 BCE, Middle Hebrew - 1300 to 400 BCE (though used on a limited basis until 100 CE), Late Hebrew - 400 BCE to 100 CE, Modern Hebrew - 1000 CE to present.
Below is a chart with the fonts and the keyboard keys for each letter. Rather than use the Roman letter that best represents the sound of the Hebrew letter, as most Hebrew fonts do, we have chosen to use the Roman letter that evolved out of the Hebrew (see Hebrew origin of the English alphabet). The letters tet and tsade were not used in the Roman alphabet and therefore we used the two Roman letters that best represented the original pictograph.
Download the font you want and place it in your fonts folder (usually located in your system at C:\Windows\Fonts). You can then use a word processing program such as Word to type in these fonts. Each font in interchangeable, in other words you can select a text that was written with one font and convert to another font. The modern Hebrew alphabets include five final letters (Kaph, Mem, Nun, Pey and Tsade), these are represented by the upper case letter. If you type a sentence in early Hebrew (which does not have final letters) but want to convert it into modern Hebrew later, type the final letter of every word in the upper case as the early, middle and late Hebrew fonts have the same font in the lower case and upper case for this reason.
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