To get Hebrew characters in Word I have to be in Arial font and insert them as Symbol but when I cut and paste those symbols into Inkscape, they show up as normal letters.



So it does not work, but nice try.

I wish you would have been right, that would have made my life a lot easier. Unless, I am missing something.

Have I missed a step?

and Thanks for answering

Not so. They are supported in multiple fonts and can be inserted via a suitably-configured keyboard or via the appropriate Unicode character sequences. I have inserted a considerable amount of Hebrew (and Greek) text into Word documents and Excel workbooks, along with their English meanings.
Your original post made no mention of Inkscape, which is a is a vector graphics editor. Inkscape's limitations have nothing to do with Word.

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Paul Edstein
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