מ

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /mem/

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מ • (m)

1. Mem: the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, after ל and before נ.
2. The numeral 40 in Hebrew numbering.

• The letter מ denotes the phoneme /m/ (like the sound of ⟨m⟩ in the English word mess).
• The letter מ has a distinct special form used at the ends of words, namely ם. This form is called mem sofit or (in English) final mem.
• For information about מ as a preposition meaning roughly “from”, see מ־.
• For information about מ as a sort of prefix in the present tense and present participle of pi'él, pu'ál, hif'íl, huf'ál, and hitpa'él verbs, see Appendix:Hebrew verbs.
• For information about ם as a suffix meaning roughly “them”, which is one form of the third-person masculine plural personal pronoun, see ־ם.

• Hebrew script letters (alphabet appendix, script appendix): א, ב, ג, ד, ה, ו, ז, ח, ט, י, כ~ך, ל, מ~ם, נ~ן, ס, ע, פ~ף, צ~ץ, ק, ר, ש, ת ^[edit]

Clipping of לְשׁוֹן הַמִּקְרָא.

מ • (m.)

1. (lexicography) initialism of מִקְרָא (“Hebrew Bible”), used to indicate that a term originates from the oldest layer of the Hebrew language: Biblical Hebrew

   Synonym: תָּנָ״ךְ