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Beth or '''Bet''' is the second Letter of many Semitic Abjads , including Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew Syriac and Arabic Alphabet . Its value is a Voiced Bilabial Plosive , IPA . This letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Hebrew: ''bayit'', Arabic: ''bayt''), and appears to derive from a Middle Bronze Age picture of a house by Acrophony . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Beta , Latin B , and Cyrillic Б , В . HEBREW BETH This letter is named ''beth'', following the Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation, in academic circles, and ''bet'', following the modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation, ''bet'' (), in Israel and by most Jew s familiar with Hebrew, although many Ashkenazi speakers pronounce it ''beis'' (), and some Jews pronounce it ''beth'' (). Variations on written form/pronunciation: See Also: Hebrew phonology There are two orthographic variants of this letter, which alter the pronunciation:
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Beth with the dagesh When the Beth has a "dot" in its center, known as a Dagesh , then it is pronounced as {Link without Title} . There are various rules in Hebrew Grammar that stipulate when and why a dagesh is used. Beth without the dagesh (Veth) When this letter appears as ב ''without'' the Dagesh ("dot") in its center then it is pronounced as a Voiced Labiodental Fricative {Link without Title} . Significance of Bet, Mystical and otherwise: Bet in Gematria symbolizes the number 2. As a Prefix , the letter bet may function as a Preposition meaning "in", "at", or "with". Bet is the first letter of the and the Oral Torah . Rashi points out that the letter is closed on three sides and open on one; this is to teach you that you may question about what happened after creation, but not what happened before it, or what is above the heavens or below the earth. In Discrete Mathematics , beth represents the Beth Numbers that stand for the power of infinite sets. |
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