Gimel (Hebrew)

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Gimel

Gimel (גימל) or Gimmel is the third letter in the Hebrew alphabet . It has the numerical value 3. Gimel is spoken in modern Iwrit as G as in German. If the letter is followed by a Geresch , it replaces the voiced j-sound (in foreign words) that does not exist in Hebrew.

history

Gimel is also a consonant letter of the Phoenician alphabet , which probably goes back to the stylized representation of a camel's hump (gamel = camel ). The Hebrew Gimel, the Arabic Ǧīm and the Greek gamma are derived from this letter , from the latter the Latin C and G emerged .

Examples

  • גולית Goliat
  • גלגל, galgal , Gilgal : "wheel"
  • ג׳אז Jazz (use in a foreign word)
  • גבריאל Gabriel : "My strength is God"
  • גדעון Gideon , male first name

Use in math

With designated Gimel function is in the set theory for computing with cardinal numbers used.

Character encoding

Unicode codepoint U + 05d2
Unicode name HEBREW LETTER GIMEL
HTML & # 1490;
ISO 8859-8 0xe2

Web links

Commons : Gimel  - collection of images, videos and audio files