As an interesting side note יהוה is the first "four letter word" known by scholars as the tetragrammaton (Greek for "four letter word") YHWH spelled in Hebrew as יהוה, contains only four letters and is commonly known as Yehweh, Yehovah, or Jehovah.
One exception is when the name of God was written. It was not until the Masoretes, between the 7th and 10th centuries AD, added to the translations of the Hebrew text, markers under the letters to indicate vowels, as a help in pronunciation. In its original written form, Hebrew contained no vowels, only consonants. Hebrew is read from right to left, just the opposite of English and many modern languages which are read from left to right. See also diagonality flipped image glance curve.Ancient Hebrew, also known as Biblical Hebrew or Classical Hebrew, is the original language of the Old Testament in the Christian Bible also known as the Torah or Tanakh which is the religious text of Judiasm. In cultures where the reading direction is right to left, these principles are reversed, as can be seen by looking at cartoon strips versioned for Western readers. In Windows Messenger, users invariably initiate a virtual hug by choosing a right-facing emoticon. Several theorists have argued that Westerners tend to identify with figures on the left, seeing it as ‘our’ side. Before-and-after formats follow this pattern and even within a single frame, figures ‘facing the future’ face right. In European art, movement tends to enter from the left, and photographic manuals often recommend this direction of action. However, Wölfflin argues that Westerners tend to read pictures from left to right. The pattern of the saccade varies depending on what the brain needs to know ( see also eye movements).
Other factors play a part of course: for most people the right hemisphere is dominant for visuo-spatial tasks, giving an attentional bias to the left visual field ( see also hemispheric lateralization). Linguists Ting Ting Chan and Benjamin Bergen (2004) have offered experimental evidence that ‘the location where a writing system starts is where speakers attend first in their visual field’. for English this is left to right for Arabic or Hebrew it is right to left). The sequential flow of the writing system of a particular language (e.g.
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