מ

See also: ם, מ־, ־ם, מ׳, and Appendix:Variations of "m"

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.

Coordinate terms

• (Hebrew script letters) א,‏ ב,‏ ג,‏ ד,‏ ה,‏ ו,‏ ז,‏ ח,‏ ט,‏ י,‏ כך,‏ ל,‏ מם,‏ נן,‏ ס,‏ ע,‏ פף,‏ צץ,‏ ק,‏ ר,‏ ש,‏ ת