Daleth

Daleth (דלת) is the fourth letter in the Hebrew alphabet and today has the sound value [d]. It has the numerical value 4.

history

The Daleth is a consonant whose written form in the Phoenician alphabet goes back to the representation of an open tent door. The Greek delta and the Latin D are also derived from this Phoenician letter .

Special use

Due to its numerical value, the Daleth is occasionally used in manuscripts to abbreviate the tetragram יהוה (Yhwh) ("the four letters").

Examples

דברה Deborah : "Bee"
דוד David
דלילה Delila , female given name
דלת (delet): door - origin of the letter name
דן Dan , male first name
דניאל Daniel : "My judge is God"
דריוש Daryavesh, Darius

Character encoding

Unicode codepoint	U + 05d3
Unicode name	HEBREW LETTER DALET
HTML	& # 1491;
ISO 8859-8	0xe3

Web links

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