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Definition of Samekh

1. Noun. The 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

Definition of Samekh

1. Noun. The fifteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). ¹

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Definition of Samekh

1. samek [n -S] - See also: samek

Lexicographical Neighbors of Samekh

Literary usage of Samekh

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"We have then left only the four sibilants, Zayin, samekh ... There is also much uncertainty with regard to the relations of samekh and Shin in their Greek ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"One form of samekh seems unquestionably to have furnished that of tho Greek 2 d(see the forma, p. 6CO); another ^ is exactly the Greek £ of all the ..."

3. The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters by ISAAC. TAYLOR (1883)
"Originally the 2ist Greek letter was san, the name and form being obtained from shin; the 15th was sigma, derived from samekh ; while zeta came from tayin. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"sh, and another sound which resembled that of samekh and ultimately became indistinguishable from it, both being pronounced as the English s. ..."

5. Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature (1900)
"be uniformly employed for intervocalic s, but the non-intervocalic s, ss, and f are denoted indifferently by samekh or s1n, which in the earlier period were ..."

6. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"There is also much uncertainty witli regard to the relations of samekh and ... One furm of samekh seems unquestionably to have furnished that of the Greek ..."

7. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1897)
"(St. Petersburg. 1882.) In the Babylonian and Oriental Record (Vol. I, p. 194) Professor Sayce figures a seal containing a genuine Old Hebrew samekh. ..."

8. The Oberlin Review (1890)
"Those representing samekh Aleph and supporters of the negative were SC Dickinson and LL ... Loud and prolonged cheers from the members of samekh Aleph, ..."

9. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"We have then left only the four sibilants, Zayin, samekh ... There is also much uncertainty with regard to the relations of samekh and Shin in their Greek ..."

10. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"One form of samekh seems unquestionably to have furnished that of tho Greek 2 d(see the forma, p. 6CO); another ^ is exactly the Greek £ of all the ..."

11. The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters by ISAAC. TAYLOR (1883)
"Originally the 2ist Greek letter was san, the name and form being obtained from shin; the 15th was sigma, derived from samekh ; while zeta came from tayin. ..."

12. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"sh, and another sound which resembled that of samekh and ultimately became indistinguishable from it, both being pronounced as the English s. ..."

13. Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature (1900)
"be uniformly employed for intervocalic s, but the non-intervocalic s, ss, and f are denoted indifferently by samekh or s1n, which in the earlier period were ..."

14. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"There is also much uncertainty witli regard to the relations of samekh and ... One furm of samekh seems unquestionably to have furnished that of the Greek ..."

15. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1897)
"(St. Petersburg. 1882.) In the Babylonian and Oriental Record (Vol. I, p. 194) Professor Sayce figures a seal containing a genuine Old Hebrew samekh. ..."

16. The Oberlin Review (1890)
"Those representing samekh Aleph and supporters of the negative were SC Dickinson and LL ... Loud and prolonged cheers from the members of samekh Aleph, ..."

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