This article is about the Semitic letter. For other uses, see Heth (disambiguation).
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Heth
Teth →
Phoenician
Hebrew
ח
Aramaic
Syriac
ܚ
Arabic
ح
Phonemic representation
χ,x,ħ
Position in alphabet
8
Numerical value
8
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Greek
Η
Latin
H
Cyrillic
И, Й
Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ḥēt 𐤇, Hebrew ḥēt ח, Aramaic ḥēṯ 𐡇, Syriac ḥēṯ ܚ, and Arabic ḥāʾ ح.
Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal /ħ/, or velar /x/. In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ḥāʾح represents /ħ/, while ḫāʾخ represents /x/.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek eta Η, Etruscan , Latin H, and Cyrillic И. While H is a consonant in the Latin alphabet, the Greek and Cyrillic equivalents represent vowel sounds, though the letter was originally a consonant in Greek and this usage later evolved into the rough breathing character.[1]
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Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ḥēt 𐤇, Hebrew ḥēt ח, Aramaic ḥēṯ 𐡇, Syriac ḥēṯ...
Henry Heth (/ˈhiːθ/ not /ˈhɛθ/) (December 16, 1825 – September 27, 1899) was a career United States Army officer who became a Confederate general in the...
Joice Heth (c. 1756 [citation needed] – February 19, 1836) was an African-American woman who was exhibited by P.T. Barnum with the false claim that she...
Under the names בני-חת (bny-ḥt "children of Heth", who was the son of Canaan) and חתי (ḥty "native of Heth") they are described several times as living...
Captain John Heth (1798 – April 30, 1842) was a Virginian naval officer and businessman in the coal mining industry. Heth was born in 1798 at Black Heath...
Harvey Heth (1770–1816) was born on April 28, 1770, in Virginia. He was the son of Agnes McMahon Heth and Captain Henry Heth, a new Irish immigrant to...
The MacHeths were a Celtic kindred who raised several rebellions against the kings of Scotland in the 12th and 13th centuries. Their origins have long...
Thomas Heth or Heath (fl. 1583) was an English mathematician. Born in London, Heth was admitted probationer fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1567...
defeated a larger Confederate force commanded by Brigadier General Henry Heth. Panicked Confederate forces escaped by crossing and burning a bridge across...
Heth Wharton (April 18, 1892 – October 28, 1958) was an American architect. He grew up in Virginia, and he was a draughtsman for Hunt & Chambers. With...
Portuguese: agá [ɐˈɣa, aˈɡa] Spanish: hache ['atʃe] The original Semitic letter Heth most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative (ħ). The form...
The Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels are smuggling tunnels that had been dug under the Philadelphi Route along the Egypt–Gaza border. They were dug to subvert...
This sound is the most commonly cited realization of the Semitic letter hēth, which occurs in all dialects of Arabic, Classical Syriac, as well as Biblical...
Pettigrew) ventured toward Gettysburg. In his memoirs, Major General Henry Heth, Pettigrew's division commander, claimed that he sent Pettigrew to search...
to the Southern Ocean. Mount Steele, Mount Ellery, the Hornblende Bluffs, Heth Ridge and Mount Send are to the west. To the north, near its mouth, it passes...
A Daughter of Heth is a novel by eminent author William Black, first published in 3 volumes by Sampson Low in 1871. It established Black's reputation as...
as Kusumkaali: Kalyani's best friend Sanjay Batra as Heth Singh Saurrabh Kushwaha as Sooraj: Heth Singh's son Fahad Ali as Shravan Rajkumar Kanojia as...
Philip St. George Cooke and Capt. Henry Heth. Harney moved up in the morning to drive the Sioux against Cooke and Heth. He first attempted to parlay with the...
included A. P. Hill and Henry Heth, two men Buford would face at Gettysburg on the morning of July 1, 1863. Buford and Heth fought together in the U.S....
Arameans, Cushites, and Canaanites. Likewise, from the sons of Canaan: Heth, Jebus, and Amorus were derived Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites. Further...
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, Latin H, and Cyrillic И. While H is a consonant in the Latin alphabet, the Greek and Cyrillic equivalents represent vowel sounds, though the letter was originally a consonant in Greek and this usage later evolved into the rough breathing character.[1]