Everything about Resh totally explained
Resh is the twentieth letter of many
Semitic alphabets, including
Phoenician,
Aramaic,
Hebrew and
Arabic alphabet . Its sound value is one of a number of
rhotic consonants: usually or /ɾ/ but also /ʁ/ or /ʀ/ in Hebrew.
In most Semitic alphabets, the letter resh (and its equivalents) is quite similar to the letter
dalet (and its equivalents). In the
Syriac alphabet, the letters became so similar that now they're only distinguished by a dot: resh has a dot above the letter, and the otherwise identical dalet has a dot below the letter. In the Arabic alphabet, has a longer tail than . In the Aramaic and Hebrew square alphabet, resh is a rounded single stroke while dalet is a right-angle of two strokes. The similarity led to the variant spellings of the name
Nebuchadnezzar and
Nebuchadrezzar.
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). The word's
East Semitic cognate,
riš, was one possible phonetic reading of the Sumerian
cuneiform sign for "head" (SAG ) in
Akkadian.
Resh in Hebrew
In
Hebrew, Resh represents a rhotic consonant that has different realizations for different dialects:
Resh, along with
Ayin,
Aleph,
Hei, and
Het, can't receive a
dagesh.
Resh in
gematria represents the number 200.
As an abbreviation
Resh as an abbreviation can stand for
Rabbi (or
Rav,
Rebbe, Rabban, Rabbenu, and other similar constructions).
Resh may be found after a person's name on a
gravestone to indicate that they were a Rabbi or to indicate the other use of
Rav, as a generic term for a teacher or a personal spiritual guide.
Spelling out
Resh is used in an Israeli phrase; after a child will say something false, one might say "B'
Shin Kuf, Resh" (With Shin, Kuf, 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."
Arabic rā
The letter is named
rā, and is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:
Further Information
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