The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the BibleTAW...........................................................................................................................
The Ancient picture X is a type of "mark", probably of two sticks crossed to mark a
place similar to the Egyptian hieroglyph of , a picture of two crossed sticks. This
letter has the meanings of mark, sign or signature.
The Modern Hebrew, Arabic and Greek names for this letter is tav (or taw), a Hebrew
word meaning, mark. Hebrew, Greek and Arabic agree that the sound for this letter is
"t".
The early pictograph X evolved into X in the Middle Semitic script and continued to
evolve into X in the Late Semitic Script. From the middle Semitic script comes the
Modern Hebrew X. The Early Semitic script is the origin of the Greek letter Τ and the
Latin T.
GHAH.........................................................................................................................
While this letter existed in ancient Semitic languages and some modern Semitic
languages, it no longer exists in the modern Hebrew. Instead it has been absorbed into
the letter S (ayin). While the evidence exists showing that this is in fact a separate letter,
there is very little evidence for reconstructing its original pictograph. The Ugarit and
Arabic languages wrote this letter the same as the ayin but with an additional line or
dot. The closest candidate for this letter is the K, a twisted rope, as found in some
ancient Semitic inscriptions.
In the Arabic language this letter is called the ghah but originally may have had the
name ghah meaning "twisted". The meaning of the letter ghah is twisted from the
twisting fibers of a rope and from this come the meaning of goats from their twisted
horns. As goats are dark in color, this letter also carries the meaning of dark.
Because the Greek language transliterates this letter with a gamma (g sound) we know
that this letter originally had a type of "g" sound such as in the word ring.