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heth

 (KHĕt, KHĕs)
n.
The eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

[Hebrew ḥêt, of Phoenician origin.]
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heth

(hɛt; Hebrew xɛt) or

cheth

n
(Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ח), transliterated as h and pronounced as a pharyngeal fricative
[from Hebrew]
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heth

(hɛt, hɛs, xɛt, xɛs)

also cheth



n.
the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
[1895–1900; < Hebrew ḥeth literally, enclosure]
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Noun1.heth - the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew script - a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)
alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"
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by the similarity in shape between heh and heth (a similarity noted not
Fe ddaeth yr eira a heth 1962, mi eis i weithio ar ffarm gyfagos yn Gellygaer Fawr a mi fues yn gweini am rai blynyddoedd yn Noldeheuwydd, Bryncrug.
Heth was Barnum's first circus act when he began his career in show business in 1835.
(The old Semitic alphabet, from which both the Greek and the Roman were adapted, had as its first ten letters the ancestors of positions 1 to 10 in our revised chart, including as #9 the dental letter "teth," between #8 "heth" and "10 "yod").
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35-Crosland Heth (R Lambert pro, C L'Estrange 12; Ind Woodsome Hall (A Drury pro, S Hooley 6).
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These holdings included a water mill to grind corn called Heth Mill, hence Heath Mill Lane; lands called the Conyngry, leading to Congreve Street; and the Dodwalls, which gave rise to Dudley Street.