Bad Hebrew Lettering Tattoos 3
By Ben Mordechai
Freedom or Vacation
Prof. Tyler Williams who is the Chair of the Religion & Theology Department and Assistant Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Taylor University College in Edmonton, Alberta, correctly notes on his website about the tattoo.
This tattoo is a tribal style dove with a Hebrew word Chafooshea, written underneath it in a classical Hebrew lettering font. The word is supposed to be Choofsha or freedom in English . The entire tattoo is proablly themed FREE BIRD. The dots underneath the Hebrew letters are vowel markings called nekudot which tell the reader how to exactly pronounce the word; Choofsha or freedom. But this tattoo has incorrect markings which make it spell Chafooshea, which is a non existant Hebrew word, it’s gibberish. It will have to be laser removed if it even can be. The word on the right of the photo is how the dots are supposed to be. This is another example correctly pointed out by Prof. Williams.
But with that critical matter out of the way we still have to consider the aesthetic of the tattoo, was it designed and rendered well? Does it look good? This tattoo does not look too good, the dove’s shading in between the lines is wierd and awkward and the lettering is faded to shite and to top it off, it is gibberish!
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Bad Hebrew Lettering Tattoos 2
By Ben Mordechai
Elohim Tattoo - Gods name
Prof. Tyler Williams who is the Chair of the Religion & Theology Department and Assistant Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Taylor University College in Edmonton, Alberta, correctly notes on his website about the tattoo on the left’s error.
This tattoo incorrectly reads Elohis written / tattooed vertically instead of Elohim, which is one of the names of God written in the Torah. The correction is not too serious and all the tattoo artist would need to do to fix this is square off the bottom and sides of the bottom letter .
But with that critical matter out of the way we still have to consider the aesthetic of the tattoo, was it designed and rendered well? Does it look good? And this tattoo on the left does not look good, it looks like utter shite! And if you are going to get a shite tattoo, do not do it with Gods name! The spacings (kerning) between the letters are terrible! Was this person a midget in size thus forcing it to be pressed together? (I do not know the proper, new politically correct name for midgets, sorry.) Also the width of the letters is totally inconsistent in each letter and the second letter from the top, the Lamed, is huge! This is a really bad tattoo and the fact that it is of the name of god and in Hebrew no less, just cooks my noodles.
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Bad Hebrew Lettering Tattoos
By Ben Mordechai
Getting a Hebrew lettering tattoo or any tattoo for that matter on one’s body is a very serious matter that should demand serious deliberation well before the tattoo-machine’s needles ever touch the skin. After all, a tattoo is permanent, literally, and a tattooed mistake is with a person for life; because tattoo removal is not yet an exact science.
Getting a tattoo in any foreign language comes with a certain amount of risk because it is a foreign language that may have multiple meanings. Bad Hebrew lettering tattoos are either the fault of the wearer because s/he did not research their design / text properly and as a result of which, they ended up with incorrect Hebrew or worse or the fault of the tattoo artist because s/he did not execute the tattoo professionally. In order for anyone to get a tattoo there are a logical set of steps which should be done by anyone considering getting a tattoo, which will be discussed in another article “How to get your Hebrew tattoo”.
Chai or Hi?
Here is an example of a tattooed blunder, the tattoo in the photo on the left is likely supposed to be the word Chai, which means life in Hebrew. The letter on the right is supposed to be the letter Chet…but the letter Chet in the photo is not a Chet but rather the letter Hey. What this means is that the word Chai is incorrect and spells Hi …as in hello, but there is no such word in Hebrew as Hi. Therefore this tattoo qualifes as gibberish. The closest idea that we could offer this poor girl and her Hi tattoo is to just connect the leg of the letter Hey to the body in order to make it a Chet. But then again, maybe she deliberately wanted the word Hi on her lower back so as to be friendly?
