Beth (letter)

Beth or Bet is the second letter of the Phoenician alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet, and the Aramaic alphabet. It has the sound of English B (or in some circumstance V.) The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Beta, Latin B, the Cyrillic equivalent, the Paleo-Hebrew equivalent, and the Aramaic equivalent, which gave rise to the Hebrew equivalent.

Phoenician pronunciation

In Phoenician, an extinct alphabet used by the ancient Phoenicians and ancestral to most surviving alphabets, this letter was pronounced {{IPA|/b/}}.

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