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“Katubass” is an incorrect variant of the plural
of the word, “ketubah.” “Ketubot” is the proper plural
for “ketubah.” “Katubot” would be a more proper transliterated
variant. Hebrew does not use an “s” at the end of words to signify
its plural form. Like French or Spanish, Hebrew words can be masculine or feminine,
and it uses the endings “im” and “ot” for its plurals.
Unlike French or Spanish, which use the same alphabet as English, Hebrew uses
a completely different set of characters. Because of this we have to transliterate Hebrew
words into English. Since there is no letter for letter set of transliteration
rules, we simply spell things phonetically. In many instances this leads to multiple
spellings of the same word. While there is no absolutely correct transliteration
of any individual Hebrew word, there are “accepted” spellings for
many of these words.
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