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Dalet is a letter in the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally transliterated as d. It comes after gimel and before he.
In Modern Israeli Hebrew, it is pronounced like the d in dabble. At an earlier stage in the language, it could have two pronunciations, which in pointed texts are distinguished by the presence or absence of a dagesh. With a dagesh, it was d, but without a dagesh it took a "softer" pronunciation, like the th in that.
When used as a numeral, it has the value of 4. This usage is not found in the Hebrew Bible proper, but does appear as a means of indicating verse or chapter numbers in some editions.
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