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Tav (also spelled Taw) is the twenty-second and final letter of the Hebrew alphabet Numerical value: 400 Sound: "T" with a dagesh (dot) and "S" without (among Ashkenazim) Meaning 1. Truth 2. sign 3. life or death
- Aaron L. Raskin
The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. It does not have case. Five letters have different forms when used at the end of a word. Hebrew is written from right to left.
Note that Hebrew is written from right to left, rather than left to right as in English, so Alef is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet and Tav is the last. The Hebrew alphabet is often called the " alef-bet ," because of its first two letters. Note that there are two versions of some letters.
Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician tāw 𐤕, Hebrew tav ת, Aramaic taw 𐡕, Syriac taw ܬ, and Arabic tāʾ ت (22nd in abjadi order, 3rd in modern order). In Arabic, it also gives rise to the derived letter ث ṯāʾ. Its original sound value is /t/.
- ت
- ܬ
- ת
The last (i.e., 22nd) letter of the Hebrew alphabet is "Tav," which has the sound of "t" as in " t all." In modern Hebrew, the letter Tav can appear in three forms: Write the manual print version (or "block" version) of Tav as follows:
Note that Hebrew is written from right to left, rather than left to right as in English, so Alef (א) is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet and Tav (ת) is the last. The Hebrew alphabet is often called the "alefbet," because of its first two letters.
