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Samekh is the
fifteenth letter of the
Semitic abjads,
including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎,
Hebrew sāmeḵ ס,
Aramaic samek 𐡎,
Syriac semkaṯ ܣ, and
Arabic sīn...
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alphabetic order,
since it has a
position corresponding to the
Aramaic letter samekh /
semkat ס, yet no
letter of the
Arabic alphabet historically derives from...
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linguists that the
letter shīn is
Arabic for
samekh,
although many
Semitic linguists argue this
debate as
samekh has no
surviving descendant in the Arabic...
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Phoenician šîn, its name
sigma is
taken from the
letter Samekh,
while the
shape and
position of
samekh but name of šîn is
continued in the xi.[citation needed]...
- numerals, it has a
value of 60. Xi was
derived from the
Phoenician letter samekh . Xi is
distinct from the
letter chi,
which gave its form to the
Latin letter...
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Phoenician Gr****
samekh /s/ Ξ xi /ks/ ʿayin /ʕ/ Ο
omicron /o/, /oː/ pe /p/ Π pi /p/ ṣade /sˤ/ Ϻ (san) /s/ qoph /q/ Ϙ (koppa) /k/ reš /r/ Ρ rho /r/ šin...
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originally different from both שׁ shin and ס
samekh, but had
become /s/ the same as ס
samekh by the time the
vowel pointing was devised. Because...
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CCCLXV 365 The
Preliminary Invocation of the
Goetia —
Similar to
Liber Samekh, but with some differences.
CCCLXVII 367 De
Homunculo A
secret instruction...
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According to one hypothesis, the name "sigma" may
continue that of
Phoenician samekh (), the
letter continued through Gr**** xi,
represented as Ξ. Alternatively...
- 22 symbols of the
Phoenician alphabet, with the
exception of the
letter Samekh,
whose Gr****
counterpart Xi (Ξ) was used only in a sub-group of Gr**** alphabets...
