Mem
Arabic	Syriac	Hebrew	Aramaic	Phoenician
ﻡ	ܡܡ	מ,ם
Pronunciation (IPA):				m
Position in alphabet:				13
Gematria/Abjad value:				40

Mem (also spelled Meem or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew מ and Arabic alphabet mīm ﻡ. Its value is IPA [m]. Image File history File links Mem in Imperial Aramaic (all files in this series redrawn by me from Rosenthal) Typefaces are not copyrightable in the U.S. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Phoenician Mem. ... IPA may refer to: The International Phonetic Alphabet or India Pale Ale ... Gematria (גימטריה) is numerology of the Hebrew language and Hebrew alphabet. ... The Abjad numerals are a numeral system which was used in the Arabic-speaking world prior to the use of the Arabic numerals (which are actually of Indian origin). ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing in the Arabic language. ... 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The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Mu (Μ), Etruscan 𐌌, Latin M, and Cyrillic М. For other uses, see Mu. ... Old Italic refers to a number of related historical alphabets used on the Italian peninsula which were used for some non-Indo-European languages (Etruscan and probably North Picene), various Indo-European languages belonging to the Italic branch (Faliscan and members of the Sabellian group, including Oscan, Umbrian, and South... Image File history File links EtruscanM-01. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Em (Ðœ, м) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /m/. Code positions Categories: Cyrillic letters | Language stubs ...

Origins of Mem:

Mem is usually assumed to come from a pictogram of water (mayim in modern Hebrew, mye in modern Arabic). Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel, the West Bank, the United States, and by Jewish communities around the world. ...

Mem in Hebrew:

Hebrew Pronunciation:

Mem is pronounced as a bilabial nasal stop, (IPA:/m/), like the English M. The bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... IPA may refer to: The International Phonetic Alphabet or India Pale Ale ... The bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ...

Variations on Written form/Pronunciation:

In Hebrew, Mem, like Kaph, Nun, Pe, and Tzadi, has a final form, used at the end of words. Its shape changes from this: מ to this: ם. The pronunciation is not changed. Kaph or Kaf is the eleventh letter of the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets. ... Nun is the fourteenth letter of the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets. ... This is about the Hebrew letter: for the Cyrillic letter, see Pe (Cyrillic). ...

Significance of Mem:

In gematria, Mem represents the number 40. Its final form represents 600 but this is rarely used, Tav and Resh (400+200) being used instead. Gematria (גימטריה) is numerology of the Hebrew language and Hebrew alphabet. ... Tau (upper case Τ, lower case τ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. ... Resh is the twentieth letter of the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets. ...

In the Sefer Yetzirah, the letter Mem is King over Water, Formed Earth in the Universe, Cold in the Year, and the Belly in the Soul. Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew, Book of Creation, ספר יצירה) is the title of two books on esoteric Jewish mysticism. ...

The final form of Mem is used in the middle of a word only once in the Bible. In Isaiah 9:6, he says: The Bible (Hebrew: תנ״ך tanakh, Greek: η Βίβλος hē biblos) (sometimes The Holy Bible, The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word Scripture, Scripture), from Greek (τα) βίβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the classical name for the Hebrew Bible of Judaism or the combination of the Old Testament and New Testament of Christianity. ...

• לםרבה (לְמַרְבֵּה) הַמִּשְׂרָה וּלְשָׁלוֹם אֵין-קֵץ.
• That the rule may be increased, and of peace there be no end.

As an abbreviation, it stands for metre. In the Israeli army it can also stand for mefaked, commander. In Hebrew religious texts, it can stand for the name of God Makom, the Place. The Metre (or Meter) is the base fundamental unit of length in the metric measurement system as defined originally by the French Academy of Sciences during the French Revolutionary–Napoleonic war era, and subsequently adopted by various successive International Standards Committees as the utility, elegance, and self-consistency of the... IDF or idf may refer to: the Israel Defense Forces the Islamic Dawah Foundation the International Diabetes Federation the AIDC Ching-kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter of Taiwan. ... Insignia of a United States Navy Commander Commander is a military rank used in many navies but not generally in armies or air forces. ... At the bottom of the hands, the two letters on each hand combine to form יהוה (YHVH), the name of God. ...