{"id":2776,"date":"2019-02-18T00:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2019-02-20T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:09:09","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-hebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-hebrew\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>Hebrew<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was in Israel last week. Luckily, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rsuominen\/status\/1097442993211129856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signs<\/a> were not only in Hebrew. I wouldn&#8217;t have survived well with my loanword vocabulary:\u00a0<em>amen, bagel, cider, hallelujah, kibbutz, klezmer, kosher<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, different writing systems and variable transcripts caused headaches while driving. The names used in Finnish editions of the Bible were often difficult to recognize in the local names.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jerusalem was\u00a0<em>Yerushalayim\u00a0<\/em>in Hebrew and\u00a0<em>Al-Quds<\/em>\u00a0in Arabic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus&#8217; hometown Nazareth, where 70% of the population are Arabs, is called\u00a0<em>An-N\u0101\u015firah<\/em>\u00a0in Arabic and\u00a0<em>Nazerat\u00a0<\/em>in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abraham&#8217;s residence\u00a0<em>Beersheba<\/em>\u00a0is written in the form of\u00a0<em>Be\u2019\u00e9r-Sheva\u00a0<\/em>in Hebrew and\u00a0<em>Bi&#8217;r as-Saba&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>in Arabic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The town name Jaffa, which is very familiar to Finns, appears on signs as\u00a0<em>Yafo<\/em>\u00a0in Hebrew and\u00a0<em>Y\u0101ff\u0101<\/em>\u00a0in Arabic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The general confusion \u2013 in addition to the chaotic traffic \u2013 is increased by the fact that spellings can be different from one sign to another. So, if you go to Israel for a roadtrip, I only wish you\u00a0<em>mazel tov\u00a0<\/em>\u2019good luck\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Israel last week. Luckily, the signs were not only in Hebrew. I wouldn&#8217;t have survived well with my loanword vocabulary:\u00a0amen, bagel, cider, hallelujah, kibbutz, klezmer, kosher. However, different writing systems and variable transcripts caused headaches while driving. The names used in Finnish editions of the Bible were often difficult to recognize in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}