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There are a number of ways of transliterating Hebrew. This often depends on the way that the speaker pronounces it.

When ch appears in a Hebrew transliteration, it always has the guttural sound of German.

For example, the holiday Chanuka can be written as: Chanuka, Hannuka, Chaneekoo.

Here the names in the bible have been transliterated from English into Hebrew using an Ashkenazic pronunciation:

Abraham = Avraham
Isaac = Yitzchok
Jacob = Ya-akov
Israel = Yissra-el
Esau = Eisav
Joseph = Yossef
Moses = Moshe
Aaron = Aharon
Samuel = Shmu-el
Saul = Sha-ul
Job = Iyov
Jerusalem = Yerushalayim
Isaiah = Yeshayahu

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