Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet

Appendix A – Alphabet Reconstruction
Syllabic (name): The Modern Hebrew name for this
letter is Xr / resh, meaning head.
Phonetic (sound): Hebrew, Greek and Arabic agree that
the sound for this letter is "r".
Shin
Pictographic (form): The Ancient picture is the two
front teeth.
Mnemonic (meaning): Sharp, Press -- the function of the
teeth; Cliff -- as a tooth; Ivory -- the tusks of the elephant
as teeth; Two, duplicate, repeat, double, second, again --
as the two front teeth
Syllabic (name): The Modern Hebrew and Arabic name
for this letter is !X / Shin, meaning teeth.
Phonetic (sound): Hebrew and Arabic agree that the
sound for this letter is "sh". Modern Hebrew also assigns
an "s" to this letter but it was originally the sound for the
15th letter "sin".
Tav
Pictographic (form): The Ancient picture is a type of
"mark", probably of two sticks crossed to mark a place
similar to the Egyptian hieroglyph of , that is two
crossed sticks.
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