World Book M.13

1 is the ninth letter in our alphabet. This letter also ap peared in the alphabet used by the Semites, who once lived in Syria and Palestine. They may have taken its sym- bol from the Egyptian hieroglyphic (picture symbol) for a hand. The Phoenicians later took this letter into their al- phabet, and named it yod, meaning hand. The Greeks took the letter from the Phoenicians, and called it iota.…

World Book N.O.14

1 is the ninth letter in our alphabet. This letter also ap peared in the alphabet used by the Semites, who once lived in Syria and Palestine. They may have taken its sym- bol from the Egyptian hieroglyphic (picture symbol) for a hand. The Phoenicians later took this letter into their al- phabet, and named it yod, meaning hand. The Greeks took the letter from the Phoenicians, and called it iota.…

World Book 17

is the 19bth letter inmour alphabet. it was also a letter in the alphabet of ancient semites, who once leaved in serial palestine.

World Book B.2

B is the second letter of our alphabet. It was also the second letter in the alphabet used by the Semites, who once lived in Syria and Palestine. They called it beth, their word for house. Historians believe the word came from an Egyptian hieroglyphic (word picture) for a house. The Greeks borrowed the letter from the Phoeni- cians and called it beta. Our word alphabet comes from the names of t…

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World Book L.12

L is the 12th letter of our alphabet. It was also a letter in the alphabet used by the Semites, who once lived in Syria and Palestine. They named it lamed, their word for goad, or crooked staff. They adapted an Egyptian hiero- glyphic (picture symbol) meaning goad to represent the letter. The ancient Greeks took the letter into their alpha- bet and called it lambda. Later, the Romans borrowed i…

World Book J.K.11

Jis the tenth letter of our alphabet, and was the last to be added. It developed from the letter I, which was the tenth letter in the alphabet used by the Semites, who once lived in Syria and Palestine. They probably adapted an Egyptian hieroglyphic (picture symbol) meaning hand to represent the letter, but the resemblance is slight. The ancient Greeks used the letter and passed it on to the Ro…