Transliteration

Transliteration is a big word but a simple idea. (It is pronounced,
trans-li-ter-a-tion.)

Many Greek letters look like English letters and sound like English letters. For example, the first letter in the English alphabet is "a." The first letter in the Greek alphabet is "α." They look alike, sound alike, and are even both vowels.

And so we say that the English "a" is a transliteration of the Greek α.

Many books that will help you study the Bible will not use the Greek characters but will use a transliteration. Guess what Greek didaskalos stands for. Right. διδάσκαλος.

It is also common to put the transliteration in italics as I did with didaskalos.

We have learned seven Greek letters, and so we need to know their transliteration.