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Nun (Letter)
| Hebrew letters | |
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| Aleph | Beth / Veth |
| Gimel | Dalet |
| He | Vav |
| Zayin | Heth |
| Teth | Yod |
| Kaf / Khaf | Lamedh |
| Mem | Nun |
| Samech | Ayin |
| Pe / Fe | Tsadi |
| Qof | Resh |
| Shin / Sin | Tav |
| Phoenician | Hebrew | |||||
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| Health normal | Health final | |||||
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Nun pronounced / n /) is the fourteenth letter of the alphabet Phoenician and Hebrew. The Phoenician letter gave the nu (, ) of the Greek alphabet , the N of the Latin alphabet and its equivalent Cyrillic.
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The character Protosinatique corresponding represents a snake. Nun means fish or snake in Aramaic and is also the first letter of the Hebrew word snake Nahash
The numerical value is 50 and is that of 700.
Features
- This letter is one of 7 letters which may be topped by 3 taguim ().
These are 7 letters:
- In the game of Dreydel , each of the 4 sides of the router carries a letter which are the initials of the phrase "Nes Gadol Haya Sham" = "a great miracle happened there". When children play with during the festival of Hanukkah , when the router comes across (Nun) - nisht, this means a trip for nothing. (N as "Nothing!" In English, nisht in Yiddish)
- At 9 locations in the Bible appears a letter noun reversed (mirror): "noun hafoukha. There are 2 in Numbers 10.35-36, and the other 7 are in Psalm 107.
Main article: in: Inverted nun.
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