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  2. Q-D-Š - Wikipedia

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    Qodeš l-Yahweh (Paleo-Hebrew alphabet), "Holy to Yahweh", an inscription worn on the forehead of the High Priest of Israel. Q-D-Š is a triconsonantal Semitic root meaning "sacred, holy", derived from a concept central to ancient Semitic religion.

  3. Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian. In modern ...

  4. Qoph - Wikipedia

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    Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician qōp 𐤒, Hebrew qūp̄ ק ‎, Aramaic qop 𐡒, Syriac qōp̄ ܩ, and Arabic qāf ق ‎. Its original sound value was a West Semitic emphatic stop, presumably . In Hebrew numerals, it has the numerical value of 100.

  5. Names of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    Today, Jerusalem is called Yerushalayim (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ‎) and Al-Quds (Arabic: اَلْـقُـدْس). Yerushalayim is a derivation of a much older name, recorded as early as in the Middle Bronze Age , which has however been repeatedly re-interpreted in folk etymology , notably in Biblical Greek , where the first element ...

  6. Cursive Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    As with all handwriting, cursive Hebrew displays considerable individual variation. The forms in the table below are representative of those in present-day use. [5] The names appearing with the individual letters are taken from the Unicode standard and may differ from their designations in the various languages using them—see Hebrew alphabet § Pronunciation for variation in letter names.

  7. Unicode and HTML for the Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Hebrew Letter Bet: U+05D2 ג Hebrew Letter Gimel: U+05D3 ד Hebrew Letter Dalet: U+05D4 ה Hebrew Letter He: U+05D5 ו Hebrew Letter Vav: U+05D6 ז Hebrew Letter Zayin: U+05D7 ח Hebrew Letter Het: U+05D8 ט Hebrew Letter Tet: U+05D9 י Hebrew Letter Yod: U+05DA ך Hebrew Letter Final Kaf: U+05DB כ Hebrew Letter Kaf: U+05DC ל Hebrew Letter ...

  8. History of the Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew alphabet was later adapted in order to write down the languages of the Jewish diaspora (Karaim, Kivruli, Judæo-Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish, etc.), and was retained all the while in relatively unadapted form throughout the diaspora for Hebrew, which remained the language of Jewish law, scriptures and scholarship.

  9. Hebrew diacritics - Wikipedia

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    Niqqud in Hebrew is the way to indicate vowels, which are omitted in modern orthography, using a set of ancillary glyphs. Since the vowels can be understood from surrounding letters, context can help readers read the correct pronunciations of several letters of the Hebrew alphabet (the rafe sign and other rare glyphs are also listed as part of ...