Beth
Beth ( בית) is the second letter in the Hebrew alphabet . In modern Hebrew, Beth is spoken at the beginning of the syllable after the consonant and at the beginning of the word as [b] (in dotted notation with a point ( Dagesch ) in the middle of the letter), otherwise as [v]. It has the numerical value 2. The Torah begins with the letterב.
history
The beth is a consonant that is derived from the stylized representation of the floor plan of a house (beth = house). The Greek beta was developed from this Aramaic letter, although it was aligned to the right by changing the direction of the writing . This in turn created the Latin B .
Examples
- בית לחם Bethlehem : "House of Bread"
- בנימין Benjamin : "Son of my rights"
- בעל Ba'al : "Lord", "Owner"
- ברוך Baruch , male first name: "Blessed"
- ברק Barak , male first name: "Blitz"
- בר־תלמי Bartalmai , Bartholomäus , Aramaic loan word: "Son of Talmai"
Use in math
With designated Beth number is in the set theory to enumerate certain cardinal numbers used.
Character encoding
Unicode codepoint | U + 05D1 |
Unicode name | HEBREW LETTER BET |
HTML | & # 1489; |
ISO 8859-8 | 0xe1 |
Web links
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