Some common uses of the Hebrew alphabet vay
July 30th, 2008 . by adminUnderstanding the Hebrew meaning of word begins with understanding the Hebrew alphabet, from Aleph to Tav. The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is vay. There are three orthographic variations of vay with a different phonetic pronunciation and different phonemic value for each. Most commonly, the letter vay can be used as a vowel or consonant. As a vowel, vay is used as a double ‘o’ and called a shuruk. Vay represents the number six in the gematria. In Hebrew years, the letter vay means 6000. At the beginning of a word, vay it is a conjunction that means and.