Teth
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| Ṭēth | ||||
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| Arabic | Syriac | Hebrew | Aramaic | Phoenician |
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ﻁ |
ܛ | ט |  |
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| Phonemic representation (IPA): | tˁ | |||
| Position in alphabet: | 9 | |||
| Gematria/Abjad value: | 9 | |||
Ṭēth (also Teth, Tet) is the ninth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ט, Syriac ܛ and Arabic ṭāʼ ﻁ (9th in abjadi order; 16th in modern 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
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,
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[edit] Hebrew Teth
| Hebrew alphabet | |||||
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| א ב ג ד ה ו | |||||
| ז ח ט י כך | |||||
| ל מם נן ס ע פף | |||||
| צץ ק ר ש ת | |||||
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| Arabic alphabet | ||||||
| ﺍ || ﺏ || ﺕ || ﺙ || ﺝ || ﺡ || ﺥ | ||||||
| ﺩ || ﺫ || ﺭ || ﺯ || ﺱ || ﺵ || ﺹ | ||||||
| ﺽ || | ||||||
| ﻙ || ﻝ || ﻡ || ﻥ || هـ || ﻭ || ﻱ | ||||||
| History · Transliteration Diacritics · hamza ء Numerals · Numeration |
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| Syriac alphabet | |||||
| ܐ | ܒ | ܓ | ܕ | ||
| ܗ | ܘ | ܙ | ܚ | ܛ | ܝ |
| ܟܟ | ܠ | ܡܡ | ܢܢ | ܣ | ܥ |
| ܦ | ܨ | ܩ | ܪ | ܫ | ܬ |
[edit] Hebrew Pronunciation:
In Modern Hebrew, Teth represents a voiceless alveolar plosive /t/, although this can be pharyngealized in traditional Temani and Sephardi pronunciation.
[edit] Significance
In gematria, Teth represents the number nine, and when used at the beginning of Hebrew years, it means 9000 (i.e. טתשנד in numbers would be the date 9754).
As well, in gematria, the number 15 is written with Teth and Vav, (9+6) to avoid the normal construction Yodh and He (10+5) which spells a name of God. Similarly, 16 is written with Teth and Zayin (9+7) instead of Yodh and Vav (10+6) to avoid spelling part of the Tetragrammaton.
Teth 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.
