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Qoph
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'''Qoph''' or '''Qop''' is the nineteenth letter in many
Semitic abjads, including
Phoenician language Phoenician,
Aramaic language Aramaic,
Hebrew language Hebrew {{Ivrit|ק}} and
Arabic alphabet {{ArabDIN.html">abjadi order). Its value is a
pharyngealized.html">pharyngealization|pharyngealized verlar stop,
IPA {{IPA|kË?}}, see also
emphatic consonant.
It became over time the letter
Q in the
Latin alphabet, and the letter
Qoppa in certain early varieties of the
Greek alphabet.
Origins of Qoph:
The origin of Qoph is usually thought to have come from a
pictogram of a
monkey, with the body and tail shown (In Hebrew, ''Qoph'', spelled in Hebrew letters as קוף, means "monkey", and ''K'of'' in Old Egptian meant a type of monkey). Others have proposed that it originated from a pictogram of someone's head and neck (''Qaph'' in Arabic meant the
nape).
Qoph in Hebrew:
Hebrew Pronunciation:
Qoph is usually pronounced in
Hebrew language modern Israeli Hebrew like the English
K; i.e., no distinction is made between Qoph and
Kaph. However, many historical groups have made that distinction, with Qoph being pronounced as a
voiceless uvular plosive by
Iraqi Jews and other
Sephardim (
IPA: /
Voiceless uvular plosive q/) or even as a
voiced velar plosive by
Yemenite Jews (
IPA: /
Voiced velar plosive g/).
Significance of Qoph:
Qoph in
gematria represents the number 100.
Sarah is described in
Genesis Rabba as "בת ק' כבת ×›' ×©× ×” לחט×?", literally ''At Qoph years of age, she was like
Kaph years of age in sin'' (i.e. when she was 100 years old, she was as sinless as when she was 20).
Qoph is used in an Israeli phrase: after a child will say something false, one might say "B'
Shin Qoph,
Resh" (With Shin, Qoph, Resh). These letters spell Sheqer, which is the Hebrew word for a lie. It would be akin to an English speaker saying "That's a
L-
I-
E."
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