Gimel

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Gimel is the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally associated with the "g" sound and rich symbolic meanings in Jewish mysticism and tradition.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Gimel canonical 2

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hebrew letter
alphabet Hebrew alphabet
appearsInBlockName U+05D2
associatedAstrologicalBodyInSomeSystems Jupiter
associatedConcept gematria
associatedElementInSomeSystems water
associatedField Kabbalah
surface form: Jewish mysticism

Kabbalah
associatedSephirah Chesed
associatedTarotPathInSomeSystems High Priestess path
associatedTradition Judaism
associatedWithWordplay gomeil (one who bestows) in rabbinic tradition
canRepresentSoftSoundInSomeTraditions gh
category Hebrew alphabet letters
correspondsToGreekLetter Gamma
correspondsToLatinLetter G
hasBlockUnicode Hebrew
hasCalligraphicStyle Rashi script
STaM (Torah scroll script)
block script (Ktav Ashuri)
hasDiacriticVariant Gimel with dagesh
Gimel without dagesh
hasFinalForm no
hasNumericSystem Hebrew numerals
hasSoundValue /g/
voiced velar stop
hasTraditionalOrderFollowedBy Dalet
hasTraditionalOrderPrecededBy Bet
historicalOrigin Phoenician gimel
isConsonant true
nameInHebrew גימל
numericalValue 3
positionInAlphabet 3
relatedToAramaicLetter Gamal Mubarak
surface form: Gamal
scriptFamily Northwest Semitic
surface form: Northwest Semitic scripts
scriptType abjad
symbolicMeaningInKabbalah giving
kindness
reward
unicodeCharacter ג
usedInAbbreviation ג׳
usedInAbbreviationMeaning third
usedInGematriaForNumber 3
usedInLanguage Hebrew
Yiddish
usedInReligiousText Siddur
Talmud
Tanakh
writingDirection right-to-left

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hebrew alphabet hasLetter Gimel
Dalet follows Gimel