Bet (letter)

Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician bēt 𐤁 , Hebrew bēt ב, Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Syriac bēṯ ܒ, and Arabic bāʾ ب. Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop ⟨b⟩ or the voiced labiodental fricative ⟨v⟩.

This article is about the Semitic letter. For the use of this letter in mathematics, see Beth number.
For other uses, see Bet (disambiguation).
Bet
Phoenician
Hebrew
ב
Aramaic
Syriac
ܒ
Arabic
ب
Phonemic representationb, v
Position in alphabet2
Numerical value2
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
GreekΒ
LatinB
CyrillicБ, В

The letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic bayt, Akkadian bītu, bētu, Hebrew: bayīṯ, Phoenician bēt etc.; ultimately all from Proto-Semitic *bayt-), and appears to derive from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a house by acrophony.

The Phoenician letter gave rise to, among others, the Greek beta (Β, β), Latin B (B, b) and Cyrillic Be (Б, б) and Ve (В, в).

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