Questions about the Hebrew letters, or aleph-bet.
Questions tagged [aleph-bet-letters]
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Are shin and cin considered different letters?
Halachically is ש a single letter with two pronunciations or are there 2 different letters in the Hebrew alphabet (shin and cin) which happen to be draw the same in the torah, have the same gematria etc. For example if the wrong letter is used in a…
rikitikitembo
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Ktav Ivri in the Middle Ages
During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance did religious Jews know about Ktav Ivri? Are there examples of traditional texts they would have been exposed to written in Ktav Ivri?
Would highly educated Jews in the Middle Ages been capable of…
Seth Appel
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Is there any single verse in Chumash that contains all 22 letters of the aleph-beis?
Is there any single verse in Chumash that contains all 22 letters of the aleph-beis?
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Are lamed and nun interchangeable letters?
Shulamite and Shunamite seem to be used interchangeably in Tanach when describing certain Na'arah women.
For example, in the story of Elisha, David in his old age( with Abishag) and in the Song of Songs. Are the "lamed" and the "nun" telling us…
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