Also known as beth
second letter of many Semitic alphabets
Key facts
- Phoenician
- 𐤁
- Hebrew
- ב
- Samaritan
- ࠁ
- Aramaic
- 𐡁
- Syriac
- ܒ
- Nabataean
- 𐢃𐢂
- Arabic
- ب
- South arabian
- 𐩨
- Ge ez
- በ
- North arabian
- 𐪈
- Ugaritic
- 𐎁
- Phonemic representation
- b , ( v )
- Greek
- Β
- Latin
- B
- Cyrillic
- В , Б
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Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician bēt 𐤁, Hebrew bēt ב, Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Syriac bēṯ ܒ and Arabic bāʾ ب. It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪈, South Arabian 𐩨, and Ge'ez በ. Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop ⟨b⟩ or the voiced labiodental fricative ⟨v⟩.
The letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic bayt, Akkadian bītu, bētu, Hebrew: bayīṯ, Phoenician bēt etc.; ultimately all from Proto-Semitic *bayt-), and appears to derive from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a house by acrophony.
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beta
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abjad
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Geʽez script
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voiced bilabial plosive
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Proto-Sinaitic
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Shuwa
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Pe
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Wilhelm Gesenius
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gimel
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taw
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Israel
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Qur’an
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God
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house
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