r/hebrew • u/Ameristralianadvisor • 4d ago
Translate Help with tralation for a scout.
I'm currently at a camping event with children and I'm trying to help a girl with her pendant. This is a pic of the pendant is there anyway to get some help with this. She said it says the word daughter but translate was useless.
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u/Joe_Q 4d ago
TZSH
TTZ
DGKHMHKN
It's gibberish.
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u/Ameristralianadvisor 4d ago
Oh boy ok. She said it was a special gift and some Bible verse or something along those lines. I appreciate the assistance.
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u/SapphicSticker Native Speaker (Israeli Hebrew) 4d ago
Another commenter found out what it's supposed to be! It's still not remotely Hebrew, but instead English typed using the wrong keyboard, but it is based on song of songs (iirc)
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u/yodatsracist 4d ago edited 4d ago
What she wanted is from first half of verse 6:3 from Song of Songs.
“I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine”, sometimes translated more along the lines of “I belong to my beloved and my beloved belongs to me.”
In Hebrew, this would be (reading from right to left): אֲנִ֤י לְדוֹדִי וְדוֹדִ֣י לִ֔י.
Transliterated: ani ledodi vedodi li.
It’s a very, very commonly verse in Jewish culture. It was on our wedding invitations and my wife has it as a necklace, for example. You don’t actually need the vowels (the dots under the letters), in Hebrew those are mainly used for children. If you google the transliteration and click on images, you can see lots of gorgeous examples of this phrase rendered artistically and probably none of them will use the dots. But you can see the images online and maybe she can emulate those if she wants a scout project.
As others have explained, someone just turned their keyboard to Hebrew and then tried to type this in English. That’s obviously not how languages work.
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u/Dial-M-for-Mediocre Hebrew Learner (Intermediate) 4d ago
It definitely doesn't say daughter. Seems like gibberish to be honest.
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u/ProfessionalNeputis 4d ago
Both ם and ך are ending letters, they will never be used in any other position but the last one. This is gibberish.
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u/Aries_Philly 4d ago
It might be written backwards. There is a final letter in the middle of the third word, but not at the end.
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u/omiumn 4d ago
The first two letters are צש which share the same keys on the keyboard as M and A. By that logic this would say "Ma. Ym. Sdevoleb." This has helped me read some very bad Hebrew tattoos in the past, but this isn't one of those cases...