Hebrew pronunciation spelling Hebrew lemma?

Mike Hogue

When I'm in any of my English OT Bibles and right-click a word, select lemma and hit pronounce, the Hebrew word is spelled rather than pronounced. I purchased the Hebrew Pronunciations back in 2014 - is this how it's intended to work? Am I missing a setting?

Jason Stone (Logos)

Is this happening for all words, or just the tetragrammaton (יהוה)?

Mike Hogue

All words

Mike Hogue

After a little bit of further investigation, it's not all words. It looks like it's mostly verbs. e.g. The first word in Isaiah 35 is spelled out rather than pronounced.

Andrew Batishko

In the panel menu for the Pronunciation tool, if you select the Information option and scroll to the bottom you will find this:

Verb lexical forms are often indicated only by their consonants. In many cases, there is an appropriate vocalized form that matches the consonants given. But in cases where it is not possible to create a real Hebrew or Aramaic word by simply adding vowels to the lexical form, the names of each letter are read in turn. When this is done, the basic 23 letter names are used; no mention is made of 'final' forms, even though those are used in the writing of the lexical form. Likewise, all beḡaḏkep̄aṯ letters are read using their standard, plosive (with the dāḡēš [ּ]) names. E.g. גוף ["to shut"].