Teth
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| ← Heth Teth Yodh → | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenician | Hebrew | Aramaic | Syriac | Arabic |
| Image:Phoenician teth.png | ט | Image:Teth.svg | ܛ | ﻁ |
| Phonemic representation: | tˁ | |||
| Position in alphabet: | 9 | |||
| Numerical (Gematria/Abjad) value: | 9 | |||
Ṭēth (also Teth, Tet) is the ninth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Tet ט, Syriac ܛ and Arabic Ṭāʼ ط; it is 9th in abjadi order and 16th in modern Arabic order.
Its sound value is IPA: [tˁ], one of the Semitic emphatic consonants.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Theta (Θ).
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[edit] Origins
| Phoenician alphabet (1050 BCE–unknown) |
| 𐤀 𐤁 𐤂 𐤃 𐤄 𐤅 |
| 𐤆 𐤇 𐤈 𐤉 𐤊 𐤋 |
| 𐤌 𐤍 𐤎 𐤏 𐤐 |
| 𐤑 𐤒 𐤓 𐤔 𐤕 |
| Semitic abjads · Genealogy |
| Hebrew alphabet (1000 BCE–present) |
| א ב ג ד ה ו |
| ז ח ט י כך |
| ל מם נן ס ע פף |
| צץ ק ר ש ת |
| History · Transliteration Niqqud · Dagesh · Gematria Cantillation · Numeration |
| Syriac alphabet (200 BCE–present) |
| ܐ ܒ ܓ ܕ ܗ ܘ |
| ܙ ܚ ܛ ܝ ܟܟ ܠ |
| ܡܡ ܢܢ ܣ ܥ ܦ |
| ܨ ܩ ܪ ܫ ܬ |
| Arabic alphabet (400 CE–present) |
| ﺍ ﺏ ﺕ ﺙ ﺝ ﺡ |
| ﺥ ﺩ ﺫ ﺭ ﺯ س |
| ﺵ ﺹ ﺽ ﻁ ﻅ ﻉ |
| ﻍ ﻑ ﻕ ﻙ ﻝ |
| ﻡ ﻥ ه ﻭ ﻱ |
| History · Transliteration Diacritics · Hamza ء Numerals · Numeration |
The Phoenician letter name ṭēth means "wheel", but the letter possibly (according to Brian Colless) continues a Middle Bronze Age glyph named ṭab "good", based on the nfr "good" hieroglyph, <hiero>F35</hiero>
[edit] Hebrew Tet
| Orthographic variants | ||||
| Various Print Fonts | Cursive Hebrew | Rashi Script | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ט | ט | ט | Image:Hebrew letter Tet handwriting.png | Image:Hebrew letter Tet Rashi.png |
[edit] Hebrew Pronunciation:
In Modern Hebrew, Tet represents a voiceless alveolar plosive /t/, although this can be pharyngealized in traditional Temani and Sephardi pronunciation.
[edit] Significance
In gematria, Tet represents the number nine. When followed by an apostrophe, it means 9,000. The most common example of this usage is in the numbers of the Hebrew years (i.e. ט'תשנד in numbers would be the date 9754).
As well, in gematria, the number 15 is written with Tet and Vav, (9+6) to avoid the normal construction Yud and Hei (10+5) which spells a name of God. Similarly, 16 is written with Tet and Zayin (9+7) instead of Yud and Vav (10+6) to avoid spelling part of the Tetragrammaton.
Tet is also one of the seven letters which receive a special crown (called a tagin) when written in a Sefer Torah. See Shin, Ayin, Gimmel, Nun, Zayin, and Tzadi.
[edit] Arabic ṭāʼ
The letter is named ṭāʼ, and is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:
| Position | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isolated | Initial | Medial | Final | |
| ط | طـ | ـطـ | ـط | |
am:ጠይት arc:ܛܝܬ br:Tet (lizherenn) ca:Thet de:Tet (Buchstabe) es:Thet fi:Tet (kirjain) fr:Tet (lettre) he:ט ht:ט ms:Ṭa nl:Tet (letter) pl:Tet sv:Tet (bokstav) th:ฏออุ
