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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 Arabic yāʾ ي ‎, Aramaic yod 𐡉, Hebrew yud י ‎, Phoenician yōd 𐤉, and Syriac yōḏ. 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 / .

  3. Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Various "styles" (in current terms, "fonts") of representation of the Jewish script letters described in this article also exist, including a variety of cursive Hebrew styles. In the remainder of this article, the term "Hebrew alphabet" refers to the square script unless otherwise indicated. The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. It does not have ...

  4. History of the Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Some claimed that Paleo-Hebrew was the original script used by the Israelites at the time of the Exodus. [10] According to this tradition, [11] the block script seen today in Hebrew Torah Scrolls, called the "Assyrian script" (Kthav Ashurith) in the Talmud, was the original Hebrew script carved into the Ten Commandments. [12]

  5. Paleo-Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known inscription in the Paleo-Hebrew script is the Zayit Stone discovered on a wall at Tel Zayit, in the Beth Guvrin Valley in the lowlands of ancient Judea in 2005, about 50 km (31 mi) southwest of Jerusalem. The 22 letters were carved on one side of the 38 lb (17 kg) stone, which resembles a bowl on the other.

  6. List of biblical names starting with J - Wikipedia

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    This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with J in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.

  7. Hebrew language - Wikipedia

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    The number of attested Rabbinic Hebrew words is less than 20,000, of which (i) 7879 are Rabbinic par excellence, i.e. they did not appear in the Old Testament (the number of new Rabbinic Hebrew roots is 805); (ii) around 6000 are a subset of Biblical Hebrew; and (iii) several thousand are Aramaic words which can have a Hebrew form.

  8. Aramaic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Today, Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects and the Aramaic language of the Talmud are written in the modern-Hebrew alphabet, distinguished from the Old Hebrew script. In classical Jewish literature, the name given to the modern-Hebrew script was "Ashurit", the ancient Assyrian script, [17] a script now known widely as the Aramaic script.

  9. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    However, whereas separate letters for vowels would have actually hindered the legibility of Egyptian, Phoenician, or Hebrew, their absence was problematic for Greek, where vowels played a much more important role. [19] The Greeks used for vowels some of the Phoenician letters representing consonants which weren't used in Greek speech.