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Version B is a compilation of allegoric and mystic Aggadahs suggested by the names of the various letters, the component consonants being used as acrostics (). [1]Aleph (אלף = אמת למד פיך, "thy mouth learned truth") suggests truth, praise of God, faithfulness (אמונה = emunah), or the creative Word of God (אמרה = imrah) or God Himself as Aleph, Prince and Prime of all ...
In Hebrew, the letters that form those prefixes are called "formative letters" (Hebrew: אוֹתִיּוֹת הַשִּׁמּוּשׁ, Otiyot HaShimush). Eleven of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet are considered Otiyot HaShimush.
The Yiddish alphabet, a modified version of the Hebrew alphabet used to write Yiddish, is a true alphabet, with all vowels rendered in the spelling, except in the case of inherited Hebrew words, which typically retain their Hebrew consonant-only spellings.
Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician bēt 𐤁 , Hebrew bēt ב , Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Syriac bēṯ ܒ and Arabic bāʾ ب . Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop b or the voiced labiodental fricative v .
Hebrew Letter Alef: U+05D1 ב 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 ...
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.
Aleph, along with ayin, resh, he and heth, cannot receive a dagesh. (However, there are few very rare examples of the Masoretes adding a dagesh or mappiq to an aleph or resh. The verses of the Hebrew Bible for which an aleph with a mappiq or dagesh appears are Genesis 43:26, Leviticus 23:17, Job 33:21 and Ezra 8:18.)
A standard Hebrew keyboard showing both Hebrew and Latin letters. A Hebrew keyboard (Hebrew: מקלדת עברית, romanized: mikledet ivrit) comes in two different keyboard layouts. Most Hebrew keyboards are bilingual, with Latin characters, usually in a US Qwerty layout.