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Paste unvowelled Hebrew and get it back with full nikud, with the words the tool was unsure about flagged. Or strip nikud from vowelled text instantly, for free, keeping shin/sin dots or cantillation if you want them.
Press Add nikud to vowel the text. Uncertain words will be highlighted.
Why Hebrew Has No Vowels
Hebrew's alphabet is entirely consonants. Vowels are supplied by the reader, the way an English reader silently fills in "Wshngtn" as Washington from context. That works for a fluent reader on familiar text, so newspapers, novels, street signs and text messages are printed without nikud.
Nikud, the system of dots and dashes added around and inside letters, was developed by the Masoretes around the 7th to 10th centuries CE to fix the exact reading of the Hebrew Bible once it was no longer everyone's spoken language. It stuck for the Bible, the prayer book, poetry, dictionaries and anything written for children or new readers, and dropped everywhere else.
The 14 Nikud Marks
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does Hebrew get written without vowels?
Consonants carry almost all the information a fluent reader needs; nikud was added centuries later, mainly for the Bible, prayer books, poetry, children's books and anywhere an unfamiliar word needs to be read exactly right. Everyday Hebrew (news, signs, texts) is printed without it.
Is adding nikud with AI always correct?
No. Most words have one likely reading in context, but some are genuinely ambiguous (the same letters can be a noun or a verb, present or past). The tool flags the words it was unsure about instead of hiding the guess.
What is the difference between removing nikud and removing cantillation?
Nikud are the vowel points and dagesh; cantillation (trope) marks are the separate set of marks over Biblical text that show how a verse is chanted. You can strip either on its own.
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