yodh
IPA: jˈoʊd
noun
- The tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- A tool used to read a Torah.
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Examples of "yodh" in Sentences
- The arm hieroglyph is an ayin not related to the yodh.
- In the last word of the verse the second yodh is redundant.
- The word for “beis”, as in “beth-yodh-tav”, is there point blank.
- Yodh continued to dance throughout California following her retirement.
- Medha Yodh created an academically well received documentary film in 1987.
- Besides, the presence of the yodh may well be due to the formative ending mem, which is generally the sign of abstract nouns.
- (written hi 'with waw rather than yodh for the feminine) is the first instance of this so-called Keri perpetuam and is a stylistic peculiarity of the author of the Pentateuch (so still Koenig) and not the result, of redactional activity (so most critics).