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  2. Yodh - Wikipedia

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    Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician yōd 𐤉, Hebrew yud י ‎, Aramaic yod 𐡉, Syriac yōḏ ܝ, and Arabic yāʾ ي ‎. Its sound value is /j/ in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel, representing /iː/. [citation needed]

  3. Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic and Hebrew alphabets have similarities because they are both derived from the Aramaic alphabet, which in turn derives either from paleo-Hebrew or the Phoenician alphabet, both being slight regional variations of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet used in ancient times to write the various Canaanite languages (including Hebrew, Moabite ...

  4. List of Hebrew abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    When listing the letters themselves. For example, ְמְנַצְפַּ״ך menatzpach lists all the Hebrew letters having special final forms at the ends of words. When spelling out a letter. In this way, אַלֶ״ף spells out alef א, and יוּ״ד spells out yud י. When using this method, gematria may also be significant, as above.

  5. Prefixes in Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    There are several prefixes in the Hebrew language which are appended to regular words to introduce a new meaning. In Hebrew, the letters that form those prefixes are called "formative letters" (Hebrew: אוֹתִיּוֹת הַשִּׁמּוּשׁ, Otiyot HaShimush).

  6. Paleo-Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The letters of Imperial Aramaic were again given shapes characteristic for writing Hebrew during the Second Temple period, developing into the "square shape" of the Hebrew alphabet. [15] The Samaritans, who remained in the Land of Israel, continued to use their variant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, called the Samaritan script. [16]

  7. History of the Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Hebrew alphabet is not to be confused with the history of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, so called not because it is ancestral to the Hebrew alphabet but because it was used to write the earliest form of the Hebrew language. "Paleo-Hebrew alphabet" is the modern term (coined by Solomon Birnbaum in 1954 [1]) used for the script ...

  8. Gimel - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Hebraization of English - Wikipedia

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    The Hebraization of English (or Hebraicization) [1] [2] is the use of the Hebrew alphabet to write English. Because Hebrew uses an abjad , it can render English words in multiple ways. There are many uses for hebraization, which serve as a useful tool for Israeli learners of English by indicating the pronunciation of unfamiliar letters.