Aramaic Letters: Resh

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The next letter of the Aramaic Alphabet is called Resh, pronounced like it sounds. Resh corresponds to the Hebrew letter Resh in the Hebrew Alphabet. The letters in the Aramaic Alphabet are almost identical to those in Hebrew, but have slightly different names and sometimes slightly different sounds.

  Aramaic audio: Listen to the sound of Resh.

Here is what the Aramaic letter Resh looks like:

Here is how to write Resh:



 
Resh is pronounced with a r sound, like the words Rachel, Ruth or Rahab.

Resh looks very much like the English letter r, but pointing to the left instead of the right. This is no coincidence, since the English letters were influenced by the Greek alphabet, and the Greek alphabet in turn was copied from the Hebrew and Aramaic Alphabets. Similarly, the Greek letter Sigma was copied from the Aramaic letter Semkat, but the Greek letter is written the other way round.

Resh has the Gematria (numerical value) of 200.

Practise writing Resh in the grid lines below:










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