The third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, shaped roughly like a camel's head or a bent hand reaching upward.
From Hebrew 'gamal,' meaning 'camel,' as the letter's shape was originally a pictograph representing a camel's head. The name preserved in Hebrew refers to this ancient pictographic origin.
Ancient Hebrew letters told visual stories—'gimel' looks like a reaching hand because it literally started as a picture of a camel, and when you trace back the alphabet's history, you're seeing how pictures became squiggles became the letters we use today.
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