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Resh is the twentieth letter of many Semitic Abjads , including Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew and Arabic Alphabet . Its value is IPA or , in Hebrew also or . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Rho (Ρ), Etruscan ''r'' , Latin R , and Cyrillic Р . ORIGINS OF RESH Resh is usually assumed to have come from a pictogram of a head (in Modern Hebrew ''rosh''; in Arabic, ''ra's''). RESH IN HEBREW In m as / ɹ / or sometimes / ʀ /. Mizrahi Jews will pronounce it as / R /, or ɾ /. Resh, along with Ayin , Aleph , He , and Heth , cannot receive a Dagesh . Resh in Gematria represents the number 200. Resh as an abbreviation can stand for Rabbi (or Rav, Rebbe , Rabban, Rabbenu, and other similar constructions). Resh is used in an Israeli phrase: after a child will say something false, one might say "B' Shin Qoph , Resh" (With Shin, Qoph, Resh). These letters spell Sheqer, which is the Hebrew word for a lie. It would be akin to an English speaker saying "That's an L - I - E ." |
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