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  2. Waw (letter) - Wikipedia

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    A mace was a ceremonial stick or staff, similar to a scepter, perhaps derived from weapons or hunting tools. In Modern Hebrew, the word וָו vav is used to mean both "hook" and the letter's name (the name is also written וי״ו), while in Syriac and Arabic, waw to mean "hook" has fallen out of use.

  3. Holam - Wikipedia

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    hebrew letter vav with holam In computers there are three ways to distinguish the vowel ḥolam male and the consonant-vowel combination vav + ḥolam ḥaser . For example, in the pair מַצּוֹת ‎ ( /maˈt͡sot/ , the plural of מַצָּה ‎, matza ) and מִצְוֹת ‎ ( /miˈt͡svot/ , the plural of מִצְוָה ‎ mitzva ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. History of the Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew alphabet is a script that was derived from the Aramaic alphabet during the Persian, ... [15] which makes reference to the shape of the letter vav. The sage ...

  6. Prefixes in Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    Eleven of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet are considered Otiyot HaShimush. These letters are Aleph (א), Bet (ב), He (ה), Vav (ו), Yud (י), Kaf (כ), Lamed (ל), Mem (מ), Nun (נ), Shin (ש), and Tav (ת). A mnemonic to remember these letters is איתן משה וכלב (Eitan, Moshe, v'Kalev), which translates to "Ethan ...

  7. Vav-consecutive - Wikipedia

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    The vav-consecutive or waw-consecutive (Hebrew: וי״ו ההיפוך) is a grammatical construction in Biblical Hebrew. It involves prefixing a verb form with the letter waw in order to change its tense or aspect .

  8. Kubutz and shuruk - Wikipedia

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    The kubutz sign is represented by three diagonal dots " ֻ" underneath a letter.. The shuruk is the letter vav with a dot in the middle and to the left of it. The dot is identical to the grammatically different signs dagesh and mappiq, but in a fully vocalized text it is practically impossible to confuse them: shuruk itself is a vowel sign, so if the letter before the vav doesn't have its own ...

  9. Unicode and HTML for the Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    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 Lamed: U+05DD ם Hebrew Letter Final Mem: U+05DE מ Hebrew ...