The fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, shaped like a door or palm of a hand, with phonetic value of a 'd' sound.
From Hebrew daleth/daled, meaning 'door' because of the letter's shape. The name comes from Proto-Semitic dalt, referring to a door or entrance, reflecting ancient Semitic cultures' practices of naming letters after objects.
Hebrew letters have names that are literally pictures—daleth is shaped like a door because ancients looked at it and thought 'that looks like a door!'—it's why they're called 'letters' from the word meaning 'to write pictorially'!
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