Do You See Hebrew and Greek?

Posted by DrHeiser | Oct 30, 2012 | NakedBible, Uncategorized |

If you see Hebrew and Greek here, let me know (and if there are problems). I think I found a way to display them both on the blog. I played a bit with the font size to make them reasonably readable.

Hebrew

מִזְמוֹר לְאָסָף אֱלֹהִים נִצָּב בַּעֲדַת־אֵל בְּקֶרֶב אֱלֹהִים יִשְׁפֹּט׃

מזמוֹר לאסף אלהים נצב בעדת אל בקרב אלהים ישׁפֹט

Greek

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.

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53 Comments

Ben on October 30, 2012 at 11:58 pm

How nice that it is working now! Both display fine in my browser, but I had trouble with some of the Greek diacritics that go beyond accents in the html display of my RSS reader.
Stephen C. Carlson on October 31, 2012 at 12:12 am

Looks good!
Alex on October 31, 2012 at 12:16 am

I see both greek and hebrew
Randy McRoberts on October 31, 2012 at 1:55 am

I see them on the web page and I see them in the RSS feed. As far as I can tell there are no issues with your system.
- MSH on October 31, 2012 at 10:59 pm
  
  good – thanks for the check.
cbm on October 31, 2012 at 2:09 am

yes, but sadly I don’t know how to read either – congrats.
Benjamin Smith on October 31, 2012 at 2:10 am

Greek’s fine; the beginning and end letters of each Hebrew word overlap, making them illegible.
- MSH on October 31, 2012 at 10:59 pm
  
  you seem to be the only one reporting that. Maybe that means it’s a browser issue.
Howard Walker on October 31, 2012 at 3:50 am

Affirmative. Safari 6.0.1 on a MacBook Air.
John Byron on October 31, 2012 at 4:33 am

Michael,

Yes, I can see both fonts. I am using Google Chrome to view it. I will note, however, that for me, at least, the Hebrew font is a bit more difficult to read.

John
- MSH on October 31, 2012 at 10:58 pm
  
  it’s smaller than I’d like, but when I go under the hood (at least in terms of what I now know how to do), the changes alter the entire site (font size). Within the post, I don’t have options to resize that make it bigger unless it’s a heading, and that won’t work. Maybe there’s a plugin that I can use for resizing.
Nick Norelli on October 31, 2012 at 4:41 am

I see both Hebrew and Greek.
David on October 31, 2012 at 4:50 am

Yes I see Hebrew and Greek.
David on October 31, 2012 at 4:56 am

I also just noticed that all the apostrophes and quotation marks in your other posts have been changed to questions marks in black diamond shapes.
Greg Smith on October 31, 2012 at 5:42 am

I see both.
David on October 31, 2012 at 5:49 am

I see both (so I guess it’s NOT all Greek to me?).
James F. McGrath on October 31, 2012 at 6:19 am

Yep, it looks great!
Wes on October 31, 2012 at 7:04 am

Looks good, however the apostrophe on the previous posts are wrong. Don’t know if that’s on my end or not.
Wes on October 31, 2012 at 7:10 am

After a closer look, all punctuation is missing. Sorry if you already know this.
Meneer on October 31, 2012 at 7:11 am

Yes – can’t read either, but looks correct 🙂
Meneer on October 31, 2012 at 7:19 am

I do however see a lot of other characters turning into “�” symbols.
They vanish when I set the browser(Firefox) to Western, but then the Hebrew and Greek does not show properly.

“�prophecy� has something to do with predicting the end times � but it actually doesn�t � that�s the apocalyptic genre.”

Don’t know if you can see them, but the word “prophecy” has one on either side, and also the word “that’s” (they seem to be in the place of the apostrophe’s.
- MSH on October 31, 2012 at 10:56 pm
  
  not sure what’s going on there. Usually I get that when I copy and paste something from a source and it brings along formatting I couldn’t see.
  - Jeff N. on November 1, 2012 at 10:53 pm
    
    Mike,
    
    You are pasting the formatting that you copied from the source – which isn’t always visible, To solve the problem you need to strip the formatting first. To strip the formatting, first paste the text into a text editor (like Notepad). From the text editor, then copy the text into WordPress.
    - MSH on November 3, 2012 at 10:41 am
      
      I’ll do that – thanks!
Michael Davis on October 31, 2012 at 7:21 am

I see them both. Looks good.
Jeff on October 31, 2012 at 7:22 am

Yes I see it.

Psalm 82:1 & John 1:1
Meneer on October 31, 2012 at 7:24 am

You are welcome to delete my comments.
Here is a screencap for in case it shows up differently on your PC.
http://i.imgur.com/vJx5t.jpg
mgvh on October 31, 2012 at 7:35 am

Looks good to me! Hebrew is a bit small but ok. Shows up both pointed and unpointed lines. Greek has all accents and breathings.
Michael Schwenk on October 31, 2012 at 10:04 am

Greek looks good to me. Hebrew looks very modern – like an Israeli street sign, rather than the classical Hebrew I am used to in the academic books.
Daniel on October 31, 2012 at 10:38 am

Works fine in Chrome and Safari on Mac.
JT on October 31, 2012 at 1:15 pm

See it fine. Now, what does it say? 😀
rode on October 31, 2012 at 2:09 pm

yes
Gregory Chambers on October 31, 2012 at 2:10 pm

Yes, running Google Chrome on Kubuntu linux.
Kenneth Greifer on October 31, 2012 at 2:26 pm

I see Hebrew and Greek from Psalm 82. I don’t know Greek, but I recognize the Hebrew. The top has vowels and the other line does not have the vowels.
Ryan Gustason on October 31, 2012 at 3:20 pm

Yep I can see both.
CMA on October 31, 2012 at 4:39 pm

See both. Using flipboard on iPad.
haibane13 on October 31, 2012 at 5:20 pm

I see Hebrew and Greek
Joe Mieczkowski on October 31, 2012 at 6:20 pm

I see Greek and Hebrew. Wa to go!
Drew on October 31, 2012 at 6:54 pm

Both look ok to me.
kennethos on October 31, 2012 at 8:55 pm

Yay! Greek and Hebrew fonts, at long last!
blop2008 on November 1, 2012 at 1:39 am

In Chrome 22:

Hebrew looks overlapped; and Greek is OK

In IE9:

Both look good

In Mozilla 16.0.2:

Both look good
- MSH on November 1, 2012 at 9:08 pm
  
  nice summary
Jesse Eastes on November 1, 2012 at 2:20 am

Sir,

I am (seeing) both hebrew and greek despite multiple network security layers.

respectfully,

Jesse
Lawrence Ford on November 1, 2012 at 3:43 am

The latest post shows the Hebrew and Greek lines correctly. However, the older posts on the page now show black diamonds with a question mark (Firefox) or hollow squares (Internet Explorer 8) whereas before the change the text displayed perfectly.

My operating system is Windows XP Pro SP3.
- MSH on November 1, 2012 at 9:08 pm
  
  ALL the older posts?
- MSH on November 1, 2012 at 9:21 pm
  
  Odd — I went back in and manually removed all the diamonds and squares in the post right before the Font post and put in the commas and quotation marks that were supposed to be there — and it saved just fine, like it should.
  
  I’m thinking that I will have to put everything into some sort of text editor other than MS Word from here on out. Maybe that will take care of the problem. But I hate to think all my older posts will have these artifacts in them. I can undo what I did to get the Hebrew and Greek to display — that will likely restore all the other stuff — but then no Hebrew and Greek. Not sure what I should do to be honest.
John on November 1, 2012 at 5:33 am

In Chrome on a Win 7 machine, the Hebrew is overlapping itself and unreadable while the Greek is fine, but using IE or the IE plugin, they both look great.
- MSH on November 1, 2012 at 9:07 pm
  
  thanks; I use Chrome and FireFox (but don’t have Windows 7), and I’m okay. Can’t claim to understand all that goes into fonts and displays.
Darren on November 1, 2012 at 9:46 am

I get your posts emailed to me, and I even saw the Greek and Hebrew in the email.
Very Nice!
- MSH on November 1, 2012 at 9:07 pm
  
  very nice
David Housholder on November 2, 2012 at 7:36 am

The Hebrew and Greek look great in Safari on my iPad. And the font size is good.
- MSH on November 3, 2012 at 10:41 am
  
  good
Mark Kennedy on November 4, 2012 at 8:45 pm

I see both fine, also, but the Hebrew is pretty tiny compared to the Greek. Hope it works out to enlarge it.