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Resh (IPA: /ɹɛʃ/) is the twentieth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician rēš 𐤓, Hebrew rēš ר , Aramaic rēš 𐡓, Syriac rēš ܪ, and Arabic rāʾ ر . Its sound value is one of a number of rhotic consonants : usually [ r ] or [ ɾ ] , but also [ ʁ ] or [ ʀ ] in Hebrew and North Mesopotamian Arabic .
The letter dalet, along with the He (and very rarely Gimel) is used to represent the Names of God in Judaism. The letter He is used commonly, and the dalet is rarer. A good example is the keter (crown) of a tallit, which has the blessing for donning the tallit, and has the name of God usually represented by a dalet. A reason for this is that He ...
dalet: d Dāl (د) door ד׳ dalet with a geresh: Ḏāl (ذ) Dhu [a]l-Hijjah (ذو الحجة) Also used for English voiced th; Often a simple Dalet (ד) is written; ח heth: ẖ / h, ḥ, or h Ḥaʾ (ح) Non existent in English, pronounced like an "h" while contracting the pharynx: ח׳ heth with a geresh: Ḫāʾ (ﺥ) Sheikh ...
ר resh may have also been a "doubled" letter, making the list BeGeD KePoReT. (Sefer Yetzirah, 4:1) ח chet and ע ayin represented the pharyngeal fricatives /ħ/ and /ʕ/, respectively, צ tsadi represented the emphatic consonant /sˤ/, ט tet represented the emphatic consonant /tˤ/, and ק qof represented the uvular ...
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A few instances of resh with dagesh are recorded in the Masoretic Text, as well as a few cases of aleph with dagesh, such as in Leviticus 23:17. The presence of a dagesh ḥazak or consonant-doubling in a word may be entirely morphological, or, as is often the case, is a lengthening to compensate for a deleted consonant.
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In the Hebrew alphabet gimel directly precedes dalet, which signifies a poor or lowly man, given its similarity to the Hebrew word dal (b. Shabbat, 104a). [8] Gimel is also one of the seven letters which receive special crowns (called tagin) when written in a Sefer Torah. See shin, ayin, teth, nun, zayin, and tsadi.