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🔤 A Hebrew letter 6️⃣ The number six ➕ A prefix meaning 'and'
vav

vav

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A Hebrew symbol used to mean the number six
  • numeral
  • Specialized
translation icon : vav
  • In Hebrew numerals, vav represents the number six.

Examples

  • In the context of Hebrew numbers, we learn that vav signifies six.

  • The score of six points is denoted by the symbol vav in the numeral system used for Hebrew.

  • This car won it six times in six consecutive years.

  • Remember, the Red Queen boasted that she believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  • Obviously is equal to six times the number of seconds in there, and that's in kilometers, so this is in seconds.

  • I had gotten through the first six months, which are so hard, and I was on to the final six to complete that first year and I just didn't make it.

  • So we've got this Simba mattress and the double blow up bed for six of us to sleep on.

Synonyms

waw
vsvav
  • Specialized
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The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet that makes a 'w' or 'v' sound

is a numeric symbol that stands for the number six rather than a letter sound

Surface Forms

vav cardinal word
6 cardinal digit

Etymology

Vav is also used as the number six in Hebrew because it is the sixth letter, and long ago people often used letters to stand for numbers, so the sixth letter vav came to mean 'six'.