Hebrew Alphabet

Letter		Figure	Name			Remark
X		1	Aleph			A silent letter
B		2	Beth			Sounds like "b"
b			Beth			Beth with no dot: Sounds like "w"
g		3	Gimmel			Sounds like "g" in get
G			Gimmel			Only in ancient Hebrew, in Ivrit never with dot
d		4	Daleth			Sounds like "d" in dog
D			Daleth			Only in ancient Hebrew, in Ivrit never with dot
h		5	He			Sounds like "h" in hit
V		6	Vav			Sounds like "v" in wet
z		7	Zayin			Sounds like "z" in Zebra
H		8	Cheth			Sounds like "ch" in Loch
U			Vav			With a dot in the middle: Sounds like "ou" in you
O			Vav			With a dot on top: Sounds like "o" in Oh!
F		9	Thet			Sounds like "t" in tip
y		10	Jod/Yod		Sounds like "y" in yet
K		20	Kaph/Kaf		Sounds like "k" in keep
j			Kaph/Kaf		Only at the end of words
k			Kaph/Kaf		Sounds like "ch" in Loch
L		30	Lamed			Sounds like "l" in leg
m		40	Mem			Sounds like "m"
M			Mem			Only at the end of words
n		50	Nun			Sounds like "n"
N			Nun			Only at the end of words
s		60	Samek/Ssamech	Sounds like "s" in set
f		70	Ajin/Ayin		Guttural
P		80	Pe/Pey			Sounds like "p" in pet
p			Pe/Pey			Sounds like "ph" in phone
J			Pe/Pey			Only at the end of words
c		90	Tzadi/Sadeh		Sounds like  "ts" in meets
C			Tzadi/Sadeh		Only at the end of words

q		100	Qoph/Qof		Sounds like "q" in query
R		200	Resh			Sounds like "r" in rent
W		300	Sin/Shin		Sounds like "s" in sound
w			Shin/Sin		Sounds like "sh" in show
t		400	Tav			Sounds like "t"
T			Tav			Only in ancient Hebrew, in Ivrit never with dot

Remarks

Hebrew is written from right to left as other ancient writing. This comes from writing with hammer and chisel on stone plates. For somebody, who is right handed, it is not convenient otherwise.

As in Greek, numbers were represented by normal letters, that means Aleph=1, Beth=2, etc. So, every word represents as well a number as the word. The word  Dvd = David is for example the number 14. 
At the beginning of Matthew’s gospel, the genealogy of Jesus (ancestors of Joseph, the husband of Mary) are listed.. Matthew 1,17: Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ. With this statement, Matthew says, that Jesus is the foretold redeemer, who will take over the throne of David. Jesus is even three times David!
Today in Israel, also our normal ciphers are used for writing numbers of course. 

Beside a few exceptions, the alphabet does not include any vowels. The pronunciation of ancient Hebrew was passed on orally. Only Jewish rabbies in Tiberias during the ninth and tenth century, the so called “Massoret” (= deliverer), did invent a notation for vowels using dots. In this way, they did conserve the traditional pronunciation. 
In Ivrit, the modern Hebrew, you normally will not find any dots to indicate the pronunciation of vowels.

Luzius Schneider 13. June 1999