Lectionary Pronunciation Guide – Year B
Lectionary Pronunciation Guide – Year B (page 1)
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Abana uh-bah-nuh
Abednego uh-bed-nee-goh
Abinadab uh-bin-uh-dab
Abishai ah-bee-shī
Abram ayb-rum
Achor ay-core
Adar ay-dahr
Ahasuerus uh-has-you-air-uhs
Ahio uh-hī-oh
Amalekite uh-mal-uh-kīt
Amaziah am-ah-zī-ah
Amorite am-uh-rīts
Apollos uh-pahl-uhs
Aram air-um
Aramean air-uh-mee-en
Arimathea air-ih-muh-thee-uh
Asher ash-uhr
Ashkelon ash-keh-lahn
Baal bay-uhl
Baale-judah bay-uh-lee joo-duh
Baal-shalisha bay-uhl shall-ee-shuh
Baca bay-kuh
Barabbas buh-rab-uhs
Barsabbas bahr-sab-uhs
Bashan bay-shun
Beersheba beer-shee-buh
Bethsaida beth-say-ih-duh
Boaz boe-az
Caesarea seh-zuh-ree-uh
Caiaphas kay-uh-fuhs
Candace kan-duh-see
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Capernaum kuh-per-nay-uhm or nee-uhm
Cappadocia kap-uh-doh-shee-uh
Cephas see-fuhs
Chilion kill-ee-uhn
Clopas kloh-puhs
Cushite kush-īt (u as in “cushion”)
Cyrene sī-ree-nee
Decapolis dee-kap-oh-liss
denarii dih-nah-rih-ee
Edom ee-duhm
Elah ee-lah
Elamite ee-luh-mīt
Eliab ee-lī-ab
Eliam ee-lī-am
Elimelech eh-lim-uh-lek
Elisha ee-lī-shuh
Elkanah el-kay-nuh
“Eloi, . . . lema sabachthani” eh-loe-ee . . . leh-mah
sah-bakh-thah-nee (kh = German ch)
Emmaus eh-may-uhs
ensign en-sīn not en-sin
ephah ee-fah
“Ephphatha” ef-fuh-thuh
Ephraim ee-free-uhm
Ephrathah ef-ruh-thuh
Gabbatha gab-uh-thuh
Galilee gal-ih-lee (not gal-ih-lee)
Gennesaret geh-nezz-uh-ret (hard g, as in “go”)
Gethsemane geth-sem-uh-nee
Gibeah gib-ee-uh
Gibeon gib-ee-uhn
Gilboa gil-boe-uh
Gilgal gil-gal
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Lectionary Pronunciation Guide – Year B - 2008/2009 (page 2) |
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Golgotha gahl-guh-thuh
Haman hay-men
Harbona hahr-boe-nuh
Hophni hahf-nee
hyssop hiss-up
Iscariot iss-kair-ee-uht
Ittai it-tī
Jairus jeh-ī-ruhs
Jashar jay-shuhr
Jeroboam jair-uh-boe-uhm
Joab joe-ab
Joses joe-zezz
Kadesh kay-desh
Kidron kid-ruhn
Magdalene mag-duh-leen or mag-duh-len
Mahlon mah-luhn
Malchus mal-kuhs
Manasseh muh-nass-uh
Medad mee-dad
Meshach mee-shak
Melchizedek mel-kizz-uh-deck
Midian mid-ee-uhn
Moab moe-ab
Moriah mohr-ī-uh
Mordecai more-duh-kī
Naaman nay-uh-muhn
Nebuchadnezzar neh-buh-kuhd-nezz-uhr
Negeb nay-geb (hard g, as in “go”)
Nineveh nin-uh-vuh
Obed-edom oh-bed ee-duhm
Ophir oh-fuhr
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Pamphylia pam-fill-ee-uh
Paschal pass-kuhl
Penninah peh-nin-uh
Phanuel fuh-noo-uhl (or fan-yoo-el)
Pharpar fahr-pahr
Philippi fill-uh-pī
Phinehas fin-ee-uhs
Phrygia frij-ee-uh
prophesy prah-feh-sī (prophecy prah-feh-see)
Quirinius kwih-rin-ee-uhs
Rabbouni reh-boo-nee
Ramah rah-muh
Salome suh-loe-mee
Sarai sair-ī
Shadrach shad-rak
Shammah shah-muh
Shechem shek-ehm
Sheol shay-ole
Shiloh shī-low
Sidon sī-duhn
Sirion seer-ee-uhn
Syrophoenician sī-roe-fuh-nee-shuhn
“Talitha cum” tah-lee-thah koom
Tiberias tī-beer-ee-uhs
Timaeus tih-may-uhs
Uriah yoo-rī-uh
Uzziah uh-zī-uh
Zarephath zair-uh-fath
Zechariah zek-uh-rī-uh
(Sources: Harper's Bible Dictionary, Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible)
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