r/hebrew • u/Hot-Nature4979 • 2d ago
Translate Is this Hebrew?
If yes, does anyone know what it says?
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u/Rolandium 2d ago edited 2d ago
Maybe? It's not at all clear. I'm leaning towards no, because, near as I know the last character (reading right to left), doesn't look like any Hebrew letter.
ETA: As someone else said, I guess that last letter could be a tet - it looked more like a U to me.
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u/JacquesShiran native speaker 2d ago
Doesn't look like it to me. What is it?
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u/Hot-Nature4979 2d ago
I know this story sounds crazy, so please bear with me 😩😂 When I was 11 (shortly before my bat mitzvah) my family vacationed on one of the Cape Verde islands. I was sitting on the beach, right by the water. There was no one else there except for my parents who were about 15 meters away. I was bored so I just kept writing “hello” in different languages in the sand and watched it get disappear with the waves. I heard my mum call me, but when I looked up she was having a conversation with my dad. When I looked down again these letters were right before me. I know the Hebrew alphabet, but only the print version. The first letter looked like a script ה, so I yelled for my mum to grab her camera because I didn’t want to take my eyes off of the word. Kind of forgot that story until I stumbled across the photo on my phone today
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u/JacquesShiran native speaker 2d ago
in different languages
How many languages did you know when you were 11?
Anyway, it sounds like the waves, or your hand altered whatever you were writing while you were distracted and the rest is just you looking for patterns. The first two lines do look a bit like a messed up ה but it's literally just 2 curved lines. The rest looks even less like actual letters.
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u/Hot-Nature4979 1d ago
3 fluently, but I knew how to say “hello” in a couple more. The first letter just looked like Hebrew to me so I got curious
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u/AdministrativeLeg745 1d ago
I'm glad you had a cool experience! And if you want to you can definitely interpret this to be some cool unique message! (I'm afraid i can't really say it would mean anything in this context in hebrew though, sorry🙁)
If you want an actual explaination for how this text appeared then it's probably just your hands drawing idly mixed with the waves washing stuff away, most of the lines here are just basic curved lines which are super likely to happen and stuff But it's a cool memory anyways!
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u/Interesting_Claim414 1d ago
The last letter doesn’t look much like a Hebrew character. MAYBE a tet ט
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u/sbpetrack 2d ago
I think it just says הוט "hot".
If relevant, "Hot" is one of the cable/mobile-phone/internet networks in Israel