Definitions
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- noun The fourth letter of many
Semitic alphabets (Phoenician ,Aramaic ,Hebrew ,Syriac ,Arabic and others).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Earth and her pillars around me forever lamed dalet
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For a brief introduction and a glossary of Hebrew and Aramaic words, see the first installment. kaf dalet
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The three figures stand where they stood, black against bright sky, watching. dalet
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When the woman awakes, the fever has broken. mem dalet
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My God insists that we give a damn -- that we wake up to the suffering of the widow, the orphan and the stranger, that we recognize that the bond of human connectedness extends beyond our own dalet amot -- our own immediate family and circle of friends.
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Kedusha is from the Hebrew root kuf-dalet-shin, which means "holy."
Archive 2007-06-01 1 Dinosaur 2007
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For example, they noted that Hebrew words with the letter zayin often resembled Aramaic words with the letter dalet: in Hebrew zachar means "to remember," whereas the Aramaic equivalent is dechar.
Linguistic creationism Kylopod 2006
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For example, they noted that Hebrew words with the letter zayin often resembled Aramaic words with the letter dalet: in Hebrew zachar means "to remember," whereas the Aramaic equivalent is dechar.
Archive 2006-06-01 Kylopod 2006
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This e-text includes a few Greek and Hebrew letters: ayin ע, dalet ד, he ה, shin ש; gamma Γ γ, theta Θ θ
Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) G. W.
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The two Hebrew characters (khet on the right, dalet on the left) on p. 180 may appear reversed on some computer systems that have not been set to read right-to-left languages correctly.
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