Hebrew alphabet

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The traditional Hebrew alphabet, with 22 letters. Hebrew letters

Note that Hebrew does not have vowels, just consonants. It is written from right to left. Some letters have different final forms, not shown here.

Are the gematria values the same for the Paleo-Hebrew and block-script Hebrew letters?

The Paleo-Hebrew characters were pictographs of what the sound represented.
During the Babylonian captivity, Hebrew was replaced by Aramaic as the spoken language and the block script replaced the older Paleo-Hebrew script. It is unclear why this happened.

More: Fundamental constants in the Bible


Atbash code (alef-tav bet-shin)	Albam code (alef-lamed bet-mem)

There are codes that have been used in Hebrew. Some appear in the Bible.

More: Jeremiah: 25, 51 An ancient cipher code called atbash

More: Albam : An ancient cipher code

The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet "Bet", means house.

Bethlehem is "house of bread".
Bethel is "house of God".

More: Bethlehem: house of bread

The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet "ל" (lamed) ≈ "lamed" and represents a "rod" or "staff" and appears to resemble such. A "rod" or "prod" is used to direct something in a certain direction.

The name of the letter lamed, the Hebrew word "לםד" ≈ "learning, studies" is related to the "rod" and "staff" but has to do with learning (or teaching) or guiding.

*H3928 לִמּוּד לִמּוּד (lim-mood') : or limmud {lim-mood'}; from H3925; instructed: -accustomed, disciple, learned, taught, used.

The Hebrew Bible is called, in Hebrew, the The Hebrew word "תנייך" (Tanakh) ≈ "Tanakh" represents what is often called the OT (Old Testament). In Jewish tradition, the parts of the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) are as follows.

"תורה" (Torah) ≈ "Torah - law"
"נביאים" (Nevi'im) ≈ "Nevi'im - prophets"
"כתובים" (Ketuvim) ≈ "Ketuvim - writings"

From the letter sounds "T", "n" and "kh" comes the word "Tanakh". תנייך - Tanakh

The Hebrew letters stand for the following.

"תורה" (Torah) ≈ "Torah - law"
"נביאים" (Nevi'im) ≈ "Nevi'im - prophets"
"כתובים" (Ketuvim) ≈ "Ketuvim - writings"

The Torah, or instruction/law, are the books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. תורה - Torah

These writings are sometimes called the Hagiographa. נביאים - Nevi'im

The Ketuvim contains the major and minor prophets. כתובים - Ketuvim

These books are generally arranged from the longest to the shortest and not in order of importance nor in chronological order.