Thread:Superdadsuper/@comment-26538658-20160910144902/@comment-1777104-20160911031637

I try to put the "Hebrew spelling" on the page. This will the best transliterated spelling as it appears in Strong's Concordance. Though other scholarship into ancient Hebrew Hebrew (such as the "true vowels" which correspond with A,E,I,O and U) may be more accurate, I do not push it upon our readers.

Quite often in the Old Testament, and sometimes in the New Testament, different spellings are used by translators in different contexts. Often the spellings are different in the original language but translated the same according to context. And then, sometimes the translators follow the original spelling and let the readers sort out the identity based on the context.

Supe, I am not aware of anywhere that "zh" is used instead of "ch." In fact, "Ch" is usually the transliteration of the chet (the hard "h," sounds like "kh"). The "z" may of the tsade and makes the sound "ts" like at the end of the word "cats." However, there is another letter that carries the actual "z" sound. In modern Hebrew, that letter is the zayin.