מ

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Hebrew

Letter

מ (m)

  1. Mem: the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, after ל and before נ.
  2. The numeral 40 in Hebrew numbering.

Usage notes

  • The letter מ denotes the phoneme /m/ (like the sound of <m> in the English word mess).
  • The letter מ has a distinct special form used at the ends of words, namely ם. This form is called mem sofit or (in English) final mem.
  • For information about מ as a preposition meaning roughly “from”, see מ־.
  • For information about מ as a sort of prefix in the present tense and present participle of pi'él, pu'ál, hif'íl, huf'ál, and hitpa'él verbs, see Appendix:Hebrew verbs.
  • For information about ם as a suffix meaning roughly “them”, which is one form of the third-person masculine plural personal pronoun, see ־ם.

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