Lamed

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Lamed is the twelfth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the "L" sound and often associated with learning and teaching in Jewish tradition.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Phoenician Lamed 2
Hebrew Lamed 1
Lamed canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hebrew letter
consonant
alphabet Hebrew alphabet
appearsInScriptType Rashi script
cursive Hebrew script
square Hebrew script
associatedWithConcept learning
study of Torah
teaching
correspondsToSound /l/
followsLetter Kaf
hasAbjadValue 30
hasCulturalAssociation Jewish learning
hasFinalForm false
hasHistoricalOrigin Phoenician Lamed
linked to: Lamed
hasPhoneticType alveolar lateral approximant
hasScript Hebrew script
hasTraditionalSymbolism aspiration to learn
heart that understands knowledge
hasUnicodeCodePoint U+05DC
isConsonantalLetter true
isGuttural false
isMaterLectionis false
isPartOfWritingSystemType abjad
isUsedInAbbreviation ל׳
isUsedInReligiousContext Judaism
nameInHebrew לָמֶד
numericalValueInGematria 30
positionInAlphabet 12
precedesLetter Mem
relatedToLetter Arabic Lām
Greek Lambda
linked to: Greek alphabet

Latin L
transliteratedAs L
usedInLanguage Hebrew
Ladino
Yiddish
usedInNumeralSystem Hebrew numerals
writingDirection right-to-left

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Hebrew alphabet hasLetter Lamed
Lamed hasHistoricalOrigin Phoenician Lamed
linked to: Lamed
Arabic Lām correspondsTo Hebrew Lamed
linked to: Lamed
Arabic Lām correspondsTo Phoenician Lamed
linked to: Lamed