ב

See also: בֿ‎, ב־‎, ℶ, and Appendix:Variations of "b"

ב	U+05D1, ב HEBREW LETTER BET

AramaicEdit

ב • (beth)

ב • (b, v)

Bet, beth, vet: the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, after א‎ and before ג‎.
The numeral 2 in Hebrew numbering.

The letter ב represents what are now the phonemes /b/ and /v/. In Modern Israeli Hebrew, these phonemes are pronounced [b] and [v], respectively (like the <b> and <v> in English bet and vet). At some point in the past, these phonemes are commonly believed to have been a single phoneme /b/, with allophones [b] and perhaps [v] or [β] (where [β] is the voiced bilabial fricative, intermediate between the voiced bilabial plosive [b] and the voiced labiodental fricative [v]). The [b] allophone was found word-initially, after consonants, and when geminated. In Modern Israeli Hebrew, however, the phoneme /b/ can also occur in other contexts, especially in loanwords.
In writing with nikud (vowel markings and related diacritics), the letter ב takes a dagesh (בּ) when representing /b/.
For information about ב as a preposition meaning roughly "in" or "with", see ב־‎ (b'-).

(Hebrew script letters) א‎,‏ ב,‏ ג‎,‏ ד‎,‏ ה‎,‏ ו‎,‏ ז‎,‏ ח‎,‏ ט‎,‏ י‎,‏ כ‎ך‎,‏ ל‎,‏ מ‎ם‎,‏ נ‎ן‎,‏ ס‎,‏ ע‎,‏ פ‎ף‎,‏ צ‎ץ‎,‏ ק‎,‏ ר‎,‏ ש‎,‏ ת‎

ב • (beys)