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Gimel is the third Letter of many Semitic Abjads , including Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew , Syriac and Arabic (in Abjadi Order ; 5th in modern order). Its value is a Voiced Velar Plosive IPA . The word derives from the Phoenician for " Camel "; in modern Arabic, "ǧamal" literally means "camel". In its Proto-Canaanite form, the letter was likely named after a "throwing stick, boomerang," ultimately deriving from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph based on the Hieroglyph below: The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Gamma (Γ) and the Latin C and G and Cyrillic Г . HEBREW GIMEL Variations The letter gimel is one of the six letters which can receive a Dagesh Kal. The six are Bet , Gimel, Daled , Kaph , Pe , and Taf . Three of them ( Bet , Kaph , and Pe ) have their sound changed in modern Hebrew from the fricative to the plosive by adding a dagesh. The other three have the same pronunciation in modern Hebrew, but have had alternate pronunciations at other times and places. Gimel was pronounced in some Sephardi areas as or Voiced_postalveolar_fricative with a dagesh, and as Voiced Velar Fricative without a dagesh. See Bet , Daled , Kaph , Pe , and Taf . Significance In Gematria , Gimel represents the number three. It is written like a directly precedes Dalet in the Hebrew Alphabet , and this which signifies a poor/lowly man, from the Hebrew word ''dal''. The word ''gimel'' is related to ''gemul'', which means justified repayment, or the giving of reward and punishment. Gimmel is also one of the seven letters which receive a special crown (called a ''tagin'') when written in a Sefer Torah . See Shin , Ayin , Teth , Nun , Zayin , and Tzadi . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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