daleth
Americannoun
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the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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the consonant sound represented by this letter.
noun
Etymology
Origin of daleth
< Hebrew dāleth, akin to dālāh door
Example Sentences
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They had no other or more appropriate confession of this than is seen in the root דע yedo--knowledge, compounded of the three symbols yod, daleth, oin--a hand, a door, an eye.
From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial
The daleth meaning four would easily be misread for resh meaning 200.
From The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela by Benjamin of Tudela
Their beth was a house in the tent form; their gimel a camel, represented by its head and neck; their daleth a door, and so on.
From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George
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