Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet

Dal
Appendix A – Alphabet Reconstruction
Pictographic (form): Ancient alphabet charts include
two possibilities for the Ancient pictographic form for this
letter, (a fish -- "dahg" in Hebrew) and (a picture
of a tent door -- "dahl" or "delet" in Hebrew). The
Modern name for this letter is dalet meaning a door
indicating that the original form of the letter is the .
Mnemonic (meaning): Dangle -- the tent door hangs
down from the horizontal pole as seen in the picture of the
letter; Movement -- the door is used to move in and out or
back and forth through the tent; Weak, Poor -- one who
hangs his head down, as in poverty.
Syllabic (name): While the Modern Hebrew name for
this letter is dalet (3 consonants), the Arabic name of ld /
dal (the original 2 consonant root), meaning door, gives
us the original two letter name.
Phonetic (sound): Hebrew (dalet), Greek (delta) and
Arabic (dal) agree that the sound for this letter is "d".
Hey
Pictographic (form): Most all sources agree that the
original picture is , a man with his arms raised out as if
pointing toward something.
Mnemonic (meaning): Look -- when one sees a great
sight he throws his arms toward it and sighs saying "look
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