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gimel
[ gim-uhl ]
noun
- the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- the consonant sound represented by this letter.
- Music. gymel.
gimel
/ ˈɡiːmɛl; ˈɡɪməl /
noun
- the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ג) transliterated as g or, when final, gh
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Origin of gimel1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gimel1
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Example Sentences
It was the love-bairn of a dead mother, brought up in the kindly Highland fashion, free of every gimel and kail-pot.
In Greek and Hebrew the third letter (gimel, gamma) had the power of the flat mute g, as in gun.
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.
Count Gimel, of whom I shall hereafter have occasion to speak more at length, set out about this time for Carlsbad.
This fact, which was communicated to me by a friend of M. de Gimel, determined me to arrest Loizeau.
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