Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic bāʾ ب, Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Hebrew bēt ב, Phoenician bēt 𐤁, and Syriac...
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Look up bet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bet is a gambling wager. Bet or BET may also refer to: Bet Lynch, a fictional character from the British...
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Beit may refer to: Beit (surname) Beit baronets Bet (letter), a letter of the Semitic abjad A component of Arabic placenames and Hebrew placenames, literally...
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Beth (section Letter and number)
in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Beth may refer to: Bet (letter), or beth, the second letter of the Semitic abjads (writing systems) Hebrew word for...
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B (redirect from B (letter))
meaning "house". The Hebrew letter bet ⟨ב⟩ is a separate development of the Phoenician letter. By Byzantine times, the Greek letter ⟨Β⟩ came to be pronounced...
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the acronyms Shabak (Hebrew: שב״כ; IPA: [ʃaˈbak] ; Arabic: شاباك) or Shin Bet (from the abbreviation of Sherut ha-Bitaẖon, "Security Service"), is Israel's...
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Aliyah Bet (Hebrew: עלייה ב', "Aliyah 'B'" – bet being the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet) was the code name given to illegal immigration by Jews...
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Hebrew alphabet (redirect from Alef bet)
creation): Why does the story of creation begin with bet?... In the same manner that the letter bet is closed on all sides and only open in front, similarly...
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is, the cardinal of the natural numbers. ℶ {\displaystyle \beth } (bet (letter)) With an ordinal i as a subscript, denotes the ith beth number. For...
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"The Bet" (Russian: "Пари", romanized: Pari) is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other following...
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the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the Latin A), whilst clandestine immigration was referred to as "Aliyah Bet" (Bet is the second...
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Gimel (redirect from Gimmel (letter))
Gimel is the third (in alphabetical order; fifth in spelling order) letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic ǧīm ج, Aramaic gāmal 𐡂, Hebrew gīmel...
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starts with the glottal stop sound the letter represents. The second letter of the Phoenician alphabet is bet (which means 'house' and looks a bit like...
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Hebrew, and most forms of Mizrahi Hebrew, three of the six letters, ב (bet), כ (kaf) and פ (pe) each still denotes a stop–fricative variant pair;...
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No More Bets (Chinese: 孤注一掷; pinyin: Gū Zhù Yī Zhì) is a 2023 Chinese crime thriller film directed by Shen Ao and produced by Ning Hao. The film chronicles...
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also dagesh lene, weak/light dagesh) may be placed inside the consonants ב bet, ג gimel, ד dalet, כ kaf, פ pe and ת tav. They each have two sounds...
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Greek alphabet (redirect from Greek letter)
the sound represented by that letter; thus ʾaleph, the word for "ox", was used as the name for the glottal stop /ʔ/, bet, or "house", for the /b/ sound...
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Bayt (poetry), lit. 'house', a metrical unit of Asian poetry Bet (disambiguation) Bet (letter), derived from the hyeroglyph for house Beth (disambiguation)...
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alphabet consider getting Bop-A-Bet. This is a maze game where you steer a boxing glove using four keys. You bop letter in alphabetical order by pushing...
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Aleph (redirect from Aleph (letter))
start the Bible. (In Hebrew, the Bible begins with the second letter of the alphabet, bet.) In the story, aleph is rewarded by being allowed to start the...
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Dalet (redirect from Daleth (letter))
Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic dāl د, Aramaic dālaṯ 𐡃, Hebrew dālet ד, Phoenician...
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Taw (redirect from Tav (letter))
Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic tāʾ ت, Aramaic taw 𐡕, Hebrew tav ת, Phoenician tāw 𐤕...
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suggested that the letter sha is directly borrowed from the Hebrew letter shin (other hypothesized sources include Coptic and Samaritan). Shin Bet is a commonly...
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variant Batgash (named for Bet–Taw–Gimel–Shin) or Ashbar (for Aleph–Shin–Bet–Reish). Either alternative mapping leaves one letter unsubstituted; respectively...
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Simon–Ehrlich wager (redirect from Ehrlich-Simon bet)
wager between business professor Julian Simon and biologist Paul Ehrlich, betting on a mutually agreed-upon measure of resource scarcity over the decade...
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Pi-Sekhemkheperre Per-Sopdu Egyptian biliteral signs The dictionary definition of Bet (letter) at Wiktionary The Per Ankh was also known as "The House of Life."It...
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Sephardi Hebrew (section Letter pronunciation)
"Aholibamah". Consonants Vowels Sephardim differ on the pronunciation of bet raphe (ב, bet without dagesh). Persian, Moroccan, Greek, Turkish, Balkan and Jerusalem...
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especially when used in Yiddish. The letter Pe is one of the six letters which can receive a Dagesh Kal. The six are Bet, Gimel, Daleth, Kaph, Pe, and Tav...
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letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is a reversed Cyrillic letter Ze (З з З з). It resembles the Latin letter epsilon (Ɛ ɛ) and the Greek letter Epsilon...
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going nowhere, Betting on Zero is still rather shocking." Kimber Myers of IndieWire rated it a letter grade of "B" and wrote, "Betting on Zero takes a...
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